Great video once again, also like the new style!!
What really amazed me ever since the first time I read it in Raab's Five Families, is that Bob Blakey finished RICO in 1970 and that it took more than 10 years for prosecutors to use it properly..
Why did it took so long?? This isn't normal I hope, otherwise it would take very long for new laws to become effective..
I don't know for sure of course, but in my opinion that's because in the 70s those "untouchable" characters with powerful connections like Gambino, Lombardo, Magaddino, Zerilli, Bruno etc were still alive and the law enforcement wasn't allowed to use RICO because that would mean to prosecute those characters like all the others, and they had too many powerful friends. Once those "fathers of the Cosa Nostra" died out and clowns like John Gotti became in charge, they could use RICO without making too much scandal in high society and political/big business circles.
