President of AFSCME Local 1871 wants US Atty Gen Holder to investigate Walker under RICO

[highplainsdem]

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President of AFSCME Local 1871 wants US Atty Gen Holder to investigate #Walker under RICO racketeering law, sent letter. #wiunion
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[ananda]

1. Good idea! But...

... I don't know if I would trust Holder to investigate or prosecute anyone
that supports the corporate fascist agenda. I wouldn't mind being
surprised, though.

[Webster Green]

2. That's for sure.

Holder is utterly useless, unless you're a big shot, then he'll cover your ass.

[roguevalley]

12. holder won't investigate the banks nor the BFEE cartel. He loves

him some fascists. Might fuck up his future employment taking houses away from old people and allowing arsenic in candy.

[dogman]

3. That might appear patrisan.

And it is in the past, we can only look to future crime.

[TornadoTN]

9. I can't wait until 2012 to see Obama caught in the headlights in the partisan GOP machine

After all of his posturing and selling out, preaching "BI PARTISANSHIP!", it's going to be a disaster. A completely predictable disaster, but a disaster nonetheless.

Of course, he's playing 12 dimensional chess, so onward with the Hope and Change! :sarcasm:

[damntexdem]

4. Can't individuals initiate RICO suits?

And recover something like triple damages?

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act):
'A "person damaged in his business or property" can sue one or more "racketeers." The plaintiff must prove the existence of a "criminal enterprise." The defendant(s) are not the enterprise; in other words, the defendant(s) and the enterprise are not one and the same. There must be one of four specified relationships between the defendant(s) and the enterprise. A civil RICO action, like many lawsuits based on federal law, can be filed in state or federal court.<5>

Both the federal and civil components allow for the recovery of treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages).'

[HereSince1628]

5. Never happen, never in 1000 years.

That sort of support isn't going to be available.

[EC]

6. I sure wish Spitzer was Attorney General

instead of Holder.

[Drale]

7. OMG I asked if he could be investigated under RICO

way back at the beginning of this whole thing! I MUST HAVE SUPER POWERS!! I WILL USE THESE POWERS FOR GOOD!!!! :rofl: But I did talk about this way back when this issue first came up.

[TornadoTN]

8. That's rich! Holder actually do his job and investigate/hold someone accountable?

Don't hold your breath on this one because we've been had.

[PufPuf23]

10. Holder is a useless placeholder. He defended paramilitary mudurers of trade unionists

in Latin America.

The USA needs to add legal staff to prosecute under RICO, anti-trust, war crimes, etc.

Many new jobs. insert Sarcasm

Problem is that attention to the law at this point would take down both major parties, the military, and most other institutions.

If Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, et al aren't prosecuted for war crimes of the highest order, there is no law.

If Wall Street Titans and International Bankers aren't prosecuted for fraud (and their enabling co-conspiracers in government and the Fed aren't prosecuted and convicted, there is no law.

Holder is a uniquely American fascist whether he realizes the fact or not.

Ironic for all our Freedom, there are more per capita convicts in the USA and just about all of us could be targeted for some reason.

[gratuitous]

11. Dammit, get it through your thick heads

This Justice Department is not about lookin' backwards to the past. They look forward to the future! They're not going to be poking around in this ancient history on the off chance that someone didn't properly dot an i or cross a t. The Justice Department is far too busy for that!

[Wilms]

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