RICO, HERE WE COME - NYPD LABELS ENTIRE MOSQUES AS TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

We here at Astute Bloggers have long maintained that if this country wants to take out the Jihadist infrastructure in the United States, the way to do it is to apply RICO statutes.

RICO is the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. It has been used to shut down the Gambino Crime Family, White Supremacist Organizations, the Key West Police Dept., and the Chicago Outfit, to name just a few.

Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. 

Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. 

In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." 

RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages).

RICO can be used to shut down entire organizations.

Most Mosques in America are funded by overseas money, from the Saudis, from Iran, or other.

This means, we may have the opportunity to shut down all Mosques funded by Saudi money, if we could link money-laundering, and terrorism back to the source.

The NYPD seems to have taken the first legal step in America towards designating Islam itself as a Crime Organization, prosecutable under the RICO statutes: 

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is a potential subject of an investigation and fair game for surveillance.

Since the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD has opened at least a dozen “terrorism enterprise investigations” into mosques, according to interviews and confidential police documents. The TEI, as it is known, is a police tool intended to help investigate terrorist cells and the like.

Many TEIs stretch for years, allowing surveillance to continue even though the NYPD has never criminally charged a mosque or Islamic organization with operating as a terrorism enterprise.

The documents show in detail how, in its hunt for terrorists, the NYPD investigated countless innocent New York Muslims and put information about them in secret police files. As a tactic, opening an enterprise investigation on a mosque is so potentially invasive that while the NYPD conducted at least a dozen, the FBI never did one, according to interviews with federal law enforcement officials.

The strategy has allowed the NYPD to send undercover officers into mosques and attempt to plant informants on the boards of mosques and at least one prominent Arab-American group in Brooklyn, whose executive director has worked with city officials, including Bill de Blasio, a front-runner for mayor.