QUOTE: The FBI defines organized crime as any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. Such groups maintain their position through the use of actual or threatened violence, corrupt public officials, graft, or extortion, and generally have a significant impact on the people in their locales, region, or the country as a whole. NEMLEC runs violent police activities as a private corporation, using funds and resources handed out by corrupt officials and, as the Lowell police officer who has been deployed by NEMLEC said, “Honestly I think they are awesome – very structured, very structured.” Clearly NEMLEC is a structured enterprise running on public money diverted by influential public officials, and thus NEMLEC meets the exact FBI definition of organized crime.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 02:40:18 +0000