1. Did TFG obtain money from his flock on false pretenses? Is that wire fraud? In the recent NJ #BridgeGate SCOTUS case, the court made clear that the purpose of the scam has to be to obtain money or property. Jamming up NJ traffic didn't qualify.
2. I think what most of us suspected, and has now been reveled, is that the orange menace and his minions are using #TheBigLie to raise money. Is that mail and wire fraud? It might be and if it is, his victims may have a way to get three-times their money back from him.
3. I've never seen an easier Civil RICO to allege. We have 10 RICO predicates under 18 USC 1512 just in the Mueller Report. We have the Stormy Daniels money laundering that Michael Cohen was convicted of engaging in with "Individual No. 1."
4. The NY state criminal case may be sufficient to implicate federal RICO predicates of money laundering and bank fraud. And the attack on the Capitol has resulted in more 18 USC 1512(c) RICO predicates that with the #StopTheSteal #BigLie
5. show more than sufficient "continuity" to establish years long "pattern of racketeering" often missing from the run-of-the-mill commercial Civil RICO. Never in my memory was a criminal enterprise subject to more examination related to enterprise structure. Mother of all RICOs.
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