The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,county prosecutor,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor and/or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact and scope of the office varies by state. Generally,the prosecutor represents the people of the jurisdiction. With the exception of three states,district attorneys are elected,unlike similar roles in other common law jurisdictions.
The U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. On December 16,2021,Philip R. Sellinger was sworn in as U.S. Attorney. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney.
William Pelham Barr is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.
Bradley Joseph Schlozman is an American attorney who served as acting head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A member of the Republican Party,Schlozman was appointed by Gonzales as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,replacing Todd Graves,and he assumed that office on March 23,2006. In April 2007,Schlozman left the U.S. Attorney position to work at the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. He was succeeded by John F. Wood as US attorney.
John Henry Durham is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 2018 to 2021. By April 2019,the Trump administration assigned him to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections,and in October 2020 he was appointed special counsel for the Department of Justice on that matter.
Rene Alexander Acosta is an American attorney and politician,who served as the 27th United States Secretary of Labor from 2017 to 2019. President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16,2017,and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27,2017.
Paul George Cassell is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah,who is currently the Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He is best known as an expert in,and proponent of,victims' rights.
Thomas Anthony Marino is an American politician and attorney,who served as a United States Representative from Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2019. He represented the 10th congressional district from January 3,2011 to January 3,2019,and the 12th district from January 3 to January 23,2019,when he resigned to work in the private sector. A member of the Republican Party,Marino was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in his early career.
Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who is serving as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Texas Senate representing the eighth district and a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Kevin Mitchel Downing is an American lawyer. He has previously worked for the United States Department of Justice Tax Division and as a partner for the law firm of Miller &Chevalier.
Russell Coleman is the former United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. On September 22,2017,following nomination by President Donald Trump and unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate,Coleman was sworn-in as United States Attorney. He resigned on January 20,2021. In May 2022,Coleman launched a campaign for Kentucky Attorney General.
Andrew E. Lelling is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 2017 to 2021. He is best known for leading Operation Varsity Blues,the federal investigation and prosecution of a massive nationwide college admissions scandal,He also oversaw the largest-ever prosecution of MS-13,which all but eliminated the notorious Salvadoran gang in the Boston area and the prosecution of six eBay employees involved in the eBay stalking scandal which involved the terrorizing of a middle-aged couple living in greater Boston,Massachusetts. His tenure was also marked by major gang and healthcare enforcement actions. Lelling,however,was also criticized by some as being "overzealous,grandstanding,and politically motivated" for his prosecution of a local trial judge who helped an undocumented immigrant charged with drug crimes avoid arrest by immigration authorities.
Michael Bryan Stuart is an American politician who serves in the West Virginia Senate and was previously the United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia from 2018 to 2021.
Duane Adkins Kees is an American attorney and former United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. He previously served as director of global ethics and compliance at Walmart.
Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. He is a partner at the law firm Fried,Frank,Harris,Shriver &Jacobson.
The Special Counsel investigation was a United States law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in United States politics and any possible involvement by members of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. It was primarily focused on the 2016 presidential election.
Sidney Katherine Powell is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor,and conspiracy theorist who attempted to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. In August 2023,she was indicted along with Donald Trump and eighteen others in the prosecution related to the 2020 election in Georgia,arising from the attempt by the former president and his allies to subvert the election outcome in Georgia and other key states lost by Trump. In October 2023,as part of an agreement with Georgia prosecutors,she pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiring to intentionally interfere with the performance of election duties. She was sentenced to six years of probation and agreed to testify against the other defendants.
The United States Justice Department investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election began in early 2021 with investigations and prosecutions of hundreds of individuals who participated in the January 6,2021 attack on the United States Capitol. By early 2022,the investigation had expanded to examine Donald Trump's inner circle,with the Justice Department impaneling several federal grand juries to investigate the attempts to overturn the election. Later in 2022,a special counsel was appointed. On August 1,2023,Trump was indicted. The indictment also describes six alleged co-conspirators.
John Luman Smith is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney,acting U.S. attorney,and head of the department's Public Integrity Section. He was also the chief prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers,an international tribunal at The Hague tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War.
