Seriously, you aren't familiar with RICO? Simple enough. Wikipedia does the best job of putting it into plain english. From the first paragraph of the summary:
Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering.
See that "person who is a member of an enterprise" part? That means you don't have to have done anything wrong yourself to be guilty. Think you could find a police department or two somewhere in the USA (Or a PTA? Or a pro sports team?) whose members have committed two crimes in the past 10 years? Everybody is guilty according to the law.
Here's the link to the whole thing
It was signed into law in 1970 by Richard (I am not a crook) Nixon, who didn't have a paranoid bone in his body.