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>> i'm a fan of rico. i told people that. the reason i'm a fan of rico is i think jurors are very, very intelligent. they want to know the whole story. they want to know what happened. they want to make an accurate decision about someone's life. and so rico is a tool that allows a prosecutor's office and law enforcement to tell the whole story. >> so, georgia's rico law is different, unique. how is it unique and how is this one considered maybe one of the toughest in the nation? >> for one thing, jose, it is broader than its federal counterpart. when congress passed rico, racketeer by the way ...

Bucket, a rico bucket. a lot of states followed suit. georgia in 1980 enacted its own rico statute, but georgia went broader, jose. they added more predicate crimes to their rico statute. so more of those disparate acts by the various criminals could be swept into the prosecutive bucket. what sort of predicate acts do they have in georgia that they don't have under federal law? well, forgery, false statements, computer trespass, the types of things you see popping up in the indictment that was just recently unsealed in fulton county permits a georgia prosecutor to go broader in this case, in h...