Jamie Raskin Calls Donald Trump's Georgia Case 'Custom-Made' For RICO Prosecution: 'We've Developed It'

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday said the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act seems "custom-made" for Georgia election indictment against ex-President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants.

What Happened: Raskin, in an interview with CNN, brushed aside the notion that a RICO prosecution could risk jury nullification if the charges are deemed excessive.

“[RICO] applies to a pattern of racketeering activity that is organizing people together into a conspiracy in order to achieve an illegal end — in this case, the overthrow of a presidential election and substituting a counterfeit process made up of fake electors for the actual process that the people voted on. So there are lots of component criminal parts to it, and there were a lot of people involved.”

"And that to me, seems as if it's custom-made for a RICO prosecution, the way that we've developed it."

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Raskin, the lead impeachment manager against Trump in January 2021, added that RICO is not typically used to prosecute mafia cases today. “RICO has been used mostly not against the mafia, if you look at all of the RICO prosecutions in the country at the federal and state level,” he explained.

Trump and his 18 co-defendants face a comprehensive RICO case over his attempts to reverse the presidential election results in Georgia. The past week saw Trump processed at the Fulton County Jail and released on a $200,000 bond.

The former president last week voluntarily surrendered at the Fulton County Jail, facing his fourth indictment. Meanwhile, he used his mug shot taken at the jail to raise funds for his campaign. Trump raised $7.1 million in funding for his election campaign.

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