CLIMATE DENIER RICO ACT RACKETEERS Foment, Incite and/or Conduct Climate Denial to Defraud Public For Profit

Internal Documents Expose Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decades of Deception on Climate Change

Read the Article http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/09/fossil-fuel-industry-climate-change/

"Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse created a stir recently when he speculated that fossil fuel companies may be violating federal racketeering law by colluding to defraud the public about the threat posed by carbon pollution."

"In 2006, a federal district court ruled that the tobacco industry’s deceptive campaign to maximize its profits by hoodwinking the public amounted to a racketeering enterprise."

Then Read this:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(crime)#The_RICO_Act

A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem,

such as for a problem that does not actually exist,

that will not be put into effect,

or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist.

CONDUCTING A RACKET IS RACKETEERING.

Particularly, the potential problem may be caused

 by the same party that offers to solve it,

although that fact may be concealed,

with the specific intent to engender

continual patronage for this party.

The RICO Act

On October 15, 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968), commonly referred to as the "RICO Act", became United States law. The RICO Act allowed law enforcement to charge a person or group of people with racketeering, defined as committing multiple violations of certain varieties within a ten-year period. The purpose of the RICO Act was stated as "the elimination of the infiltration of organized crime and racketeering into legitimate organizations operating in interstate commerce". S.Rep. No. 617, 91st Cong., 1st Sess. 76 (1968). However, the statute is sufficiently broad to encompass illegal activities relating to any enterprise affecting interstate or foreign commerce.

Section 1961(10) of Title 18 provides that the Attorney General of the United States may designate any department or agency to conduct investigations authorized by the RICO statute and such department or agency may use the investigative provisions of the statute or the investigative power of such department or agency otherwise conferred by law. Absent a specific designation by the Attorney General, jurisdiction to conduct investigations for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1962 lies with the agency having jurisdiction over the violations constituting the pattern of racketeering activity listed in 18 U.S.C. § 1961.[3]