#Georgia has one of the most capacious #RICO statutes in the country. The state’s #legislature enacted it specifically to “apply to an interrelated pattern of #criminal activity” & mandated courts to “liberally construe” it to protect the state & its citizens from harm. Under the #law, prosecutors can charge a sprawling #CriminalEnterprise & even include individuals who may not have known “of the others’ existence,” as one court put it.