President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is suggesting organizations such as drug cartels and gangs could face military action and should be treated more like ISIS than the Cosa Nostra.
The Justice Department utilized the use of the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to target the Tren de Aragua gang. Just The News notes the RICO act was “made famous for prosecutions of mafia leaders in the United States.”
Earlier this week the Justice Department charged 27 individuals associated with the violent Venezuelan international criminal organization Tren de Aragua and one of its offshoots for murders, sex trafficking, robberies, extortion, and drug dealing.
“[These] groups aren’t like the mafia, they’re more like ISIS,” National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said in an interview
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