Giuliani has long claimed that he dreamed up the idea of using the federal RICO law to target mafia families when he was a federal prosecutor.
Then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, left, with Ronald Goldstock, right, director of the State Organized Crime Task Force, and trial lawyer Barry Slotnick, before speaking at a forum on Organized Crime in New York, March 13, 1986.article also said Giuliani had a tendency to overstate his accomplishments.
For years after the national statute's inception, the Justice Department was very cautious in authorizing the use of the statute because it was such an incredibly powerful weapon for prosecutors, McDonald said. "The reason that they moved slowly on it was not because it was waiting for Giuliani to to discover it," McDonald said."It was only after they got favorable decisions in the appellate courts did they feel emboldened to authorize more and more criminal prosecutions" before Giuliani became U.S. attorney 1983.
This case used evidence gathered by the FBI against several organized crime figures, including the leaders of the New York City Mafia's Five Families. They were indicted under RICO and for extortion, labor racketeering and murder, among other charges.U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani speaks to reporters at a news conference in New York City, Dec. 13, 1984.that the idea to prosecute the heads of the mafia came from"the head of the criminal section of the F.B.I.
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