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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws. These were originally made to go after organized crime bosses.
Crime bosses will have layers of minions directly committing crimes. This lets the boss say it wasn't them. RICO provides laws to go after an entire criminal organization, including the bosses who direct the minions to commit crimes.
They are using the law in the Trump case because many of the direct crimes were done by minions. If they can prove that there was an organized series of crimes that were under the direction of boss Trump, they can hold him accountable for the crimes of the organization.
Thank you for the simplified explanation and for giving me the mental Image of Rudy Giuliani as a minion. (I can even hear him babbling in minionease...)
Now all I can imagine is Rudy saying “banana” while hair dye streaks down his cheeks.
I can tell this will become an intrusive thought once the laughing stops