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It's time to rethink Rudy Giuliani and his claim to discover RICO

Giuliani has long claimed that he dreamed up the idea of using the federal RICO law to target mafia families when he was a federal prosecutor.
In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, Rudy Giuliani, former personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, poses for his booking photo on August in Atlanta.

Rudy Giuliani's surrender to Fulton County Jail last week on charges he helped overturn the 2020 election in Georgia represented a grand, almost poetic fall from grace for a man once called "America's Mayor."

Giuliani is facing 13 charges as part of the sweeping racketeering indictment, one of the case's 19 defendants set to be arraigned on Sept. 6. Georgia's racketeering law stems from a similar federal statue that Giuliani leaned heavily on in a federal case against leaders of the American Mafia when he was a federal prosecutor in New York in the 1980s.

Giuliani has long claimed that he dreamed up the idea of using the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt

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