Its a pretty area too!
Prosecutors like RICO
Series of crimes can be tied under Federal Law.By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News
One Texas group reportedly fatally shot a U.S. Consulate employee in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso. Another killed 24 people in San Antonio. A third allegedly was on the take from a contractor for years.
La Cosa Nostra? Not quite.
But prosecutors went after these groups, the Barrio Azteca gang, the Texas Mexican Mafia and elected officials in El Paso in a crackdown on corruption, respectively, with a tool that was custom-made for the mob: the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
