Include possible coconspirators. What youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. That would be great. Here with more, we go back to Law Professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. Jonathan, im looking at that. If youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. How do you read it as your background as the great Law Professor that you are . Youre talking about ten indictments, it has not profile of a racketeering case. Thats where willis gained her fame as a local prosecutor. You often will have large numbers of people linked in a conspiracy. To make out that case you have to esta conspirators. Few crimes are on a predicate crime list, the basis for racketeering charges. In this case theyre likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all these ago force in a large comprehensive conspiracy. Thats the most likely thing here. The problem is not that racket, the rico statutes were design
same topic because i think this is very crucial here. in other words, the fact that we are talking about things that i don t think most americans a whole lot of. that s why is this a rico case, why is this a racketeering case, why did they post this earlier on the web site. in your mind having been an a.g. what is the thinking behind this? yes. two primary thoughts. first of all what greg just said is important but this is also being done to catapult the prosecutor s political career don t forget that. and then second, for 5 and a half years i was a u.s. attorney. i signed indictments personally. whenever the grand jury true bills, you know, i made sure i signed those presentments to the grand jury and those indictments and that said i can tell you rico cases are by far the hardest cases and you want to bring them and we tried to