'Wrong!' AOC schools Ted Cruz on RICO laws

During an impeachment-related hearing on Wednesday, March 20, House Republicans featured witness Tony Bobulinski — a former business partner of President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden — in the hope of making a case for impeaching the president.

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) hammered Bobulinski relentlessly during her questioning, asking him to "specifically" name the crimes he witnessed Hunter Biden commit. When Bobulinski mentioned "RICO," AOC reminded him that "RICO is not a crime — it is not a category."

In response to video of AOC questioning Bobulinski, far-right Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) implied that she thought RICO offenses were not illegal — which wasn't what she said. Ocasio-Cortez told Bobulinski that RICO isn't one particular offense, but rather, an entire "category" of offenses. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed by Congress in 1970 and signed into law by President Richard Nixon.

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Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, for example, is using RICO laws against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in her election interference case.

In a March 21 post on X, formerly Twitter, Cruz wrote, "This is bizarre. RICO — the Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961-1968 — is most assuredly a crime. It often results in massive felony sentences. And yet @aoc — eager to defend Joe Biden — insists it's not a crime."

But Ocasio-Cortez set Cruz straight with a tweet of her own.

The Bronx/Queens congresswoman told Cruz, "Wrong! RICO is a statute under which specific crimes may be considered - kidnapping, robbery, arson, etc. You need to name the crimes in order to substantiate RICO. So… since you're the expert, what RICO crimes and evidence does House GOP have? Since they don't seem to know."

X user Diana Manister tweeted, "When AOC asked Bobolinski to name a crime Biden committed, he couldn't."

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