Q&A With Man Who Created RICO Act
COSA NOSTRA NEWS EXCLUSIVE "If left alone for any length of time, the mob will make a comeback. It is a sickness of capitalism. Free markets and black markets breed it." --G. Robert Blakey We recently conducted an interview via email with G. "George" Robert Blakey, who drafted the RICO act (PDF), which President Richard Nixon signed into law on October 15, 1970. Blakey believes the JFK assassination was the result of a conspiracy that included the American Mafia. Tne John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations were of great interest to Blakey, who served as chief counsel and staff director to the House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979. In this role he investigated the assassinations, leveraging new developments in forensic science to reexamine evidence. Blakey is also the co-author of The Plot to Kill the President (with Richard Billings) in which the two state their belief that JFK was murdered as part of a conspiracy th...