RICO's Modern Use From Biden Pardons to NBA Gambling

Showing 6 RICO videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

RICO, the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act originally built to prosecute organized crime, comes up here as a possible tool for accountability across several unrelated scandals. Garrett Ziegler, of the Marco Polo research nonprofit, described Joe Biden's final-hours pardons for his siblings and their spouses as vindication for years of tracking the family's finances, arguing the timing, signed one day but released only after the inauguration crowd had arrived, suggested an effort to limit scrutiny. Elsewhere, a sprawling FBI investigation into rigged NBA poker games, described by Director Kash Patel as involving hidden scanners, x-ray tables, and more than thirty arrests including players and coaches, prompted commentators to speculate about whether alleged mafia connections could support RICO charges against some of those involved. A separate account examined the Southern Poverty Law Center's finances and its practice of labeling mainstream conservative groups extremist, questioning whether an organization with a reported $700 million endowment could itself face legal accountability for the real-world consequences of its hate map. None of these cases had produced an actual RICO charge in this material; the law mainly functions here as commentators' shorthand for accountability they believe is overdue.