on June 3, 2015 in World News
Senator: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics
Senator: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics That’s right — a sitting U.S. Senator is suggesting using RICO laws should be applied to global warming skeptics by Weekly Standard | MARK HEMINGWAY Writing in the Washington Post, Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, offered a curious suggestion for dealing with global warming skeptics: In 2006, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decided that the tobacco companies’ fraudulent campaign amounted to a racketeering enterprise. According to the court: “Defendants coordinated significant aspects of their public relations, scientific, legal, and marketing… View Article
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