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Too Big for RICO: How Epstein Escaped the One Law Built to Destroy Criminal Empires
It makes no coherent sense that federal prosecutors reached for RICO in the cases of Sean “Diddy” Combs, R. Kelly, and Keith Raniere, yet refused to apply the same framework to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell—a pair whose conduct fits the statute more cleanly than almost any modern defendant. RICO is designed to dismantle criminal enterprises that rely on networks, enablers, financial infrastructure, and ongoing patterns of illegal activity. Epstein’s operation was exactly that: a long-running trafficking enterprise spanning multiple states and countries, involving recruiters…
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