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...RICO isn't a person but a law - the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. It is most frequently used to combat organized crime, but thanks to the creativity and determination of Richard Deane, the U.S. Attorney for Georgia's northern district, Atlanta's pimps became the nation's first to be charged under RICO statutes. Last August, members of Deane's community-resource team reported that local girls as young as 10 were being lured into prostitution. Most U.S. Attorneys leave such seemingly unglamorous crimes to local police, but in this case, police were discouraged...
...Playboy," "Worm" and "Poochie," among others. But while the suspects were busy being charged with 226 federal crimes in one of the biggest strikes ever against purveyors of underage prostitutes, they were most curious about a name most of them had never heard before. "Who," they asked, "is RICO...
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...their charges with fake IDs and transported girls across state lines to places as far away as New York and California. Deane's office had essentially discovered a group of criminals working together in an organized fashion to break federal law; in other words, the prosecutors had a classic RICO case. "They had their own vocabulary and rules," says assistant U.S. Attorney Janis Gordon, who will prosecute the case when it opens March 21. "It was a friendly competition that could succeed only with cooperation...
...convicted, the Atlanta suspects face 10 to 20 years of jail time. Using RICO, Deane has also confiscated several of the pimps' luxury cars, and hopes to seize $14 million in illegally obtained assets. Not bad for an unglamorous local crime...