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Smaller, shorter criminal sentence. >> in seattle, ten people all members of a white supremacist group called the order are on trial these days. the charges included murder, arson, robbery, counterfeiting and dealing in stolen property. >> prosecutor gene wilson decided i'm going to make this a rico case. a rico case is a federal law that says if an organized group of individuals get together to commit criminal activities for an agreed-upon reason regardless of when they joined or what they did was guilty of all of the crimes. of course, it ended up being a laundry list. bank robberies. armore...

Smaller, shorter criminal sentence. >> in seattle, ten people, all members of a white supremacist group called the order. >> prosecutor wilson decided i'm going to make this a rico case. a rico case is a federal law that says that an organized group of individuals get together to commit criminal activities for a agreed-upon reason regardless of when they join or what they did, is guilty of all of the crimes. it ended up being a laundry list of the bank robberies, armored car robberies, murder, and bombings. the trial lasted about two months. and slowly, but surely, different order members who ...

Order members who had turned against the group came in to the courtroom and testified for three, four, five days and would sit there and point out each one of them. >> in seattle today, ten members of a neo-nazi group known as the order were convicted on racket tearing charges. >> they were all convicted quite quickly and i mean literally within a day. their sentences varied. but everybody got pretty substantial time. prosecutors are delighted with the verdict which they believe breaks the back of the order once and for all. >> the outcome was so rewarding. taken down, some of america's

Locating everybody. >> we really break the back of the order at that point with mathews dead and some of them already indicating that they were going to testify against their friends if it meant they would get a smaller, shorter criminal sentence. >> in seattle, ten people all members of a white supremacist group called the order are on trial these days. the charges include murder, arson, robbery, counterfeiting and dealing in stolen property. >> prosecutor gene wilson decided i'm going to make this a rico case. a rico case say federal law that says if an organized group of individuals get tog...