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Under RICO, a person who has committed "at least two acts of racketeering activity" drawn from a list of 35 crimes (27 federal crimes and eight state crimes) within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering if such acts are related in one of four specified ways to an enterprise.
Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count.

This includes

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Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. § 1503): Interfering with the administration of justice, including tampering with witnesses or jurors.
Obstruction of Criminal Investigations (18 U.S.C. § 1510): Interfering with ongoing criminal investigations through threats or coercion.
Obstruction of State or Local Law Enforcement (18 U.S.C. § 1511): Hindering the efforts of state or local law enforcement officials.
Tampering with a Witness, Victim, or Informant (18 U.S.C. § 1512): Influencing or threatening a witness, victim, or informant to alter their testimony.
Retaliating Against a Witness, Victim, or Informant (18 U.S.C. § 1513): Seeking revenge against individuals who cooperate with law enforcement.
Money Laundering (18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 and 1957): Concealing the origins of illegally obtained money through complex financial transactions.

Using Encryption to hide the planning and evidence of committing a crime is also shockingly... a crime.
Arson is a big one on the list as well, but the real power is in hiding the planning on riots from federal and local officials.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/fbi-s-encrypted-phone-platform-infiltrated-hundreds-criminal-syndicates-result-massive

Antifa, and it's individual cells use encryption to manage their ever growing organization.
Just like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Cartels do.

These cells, are not independent organizations, but individual pieces that are in constant encrypted communication with each other.

Ah yes, but what is racketeering...

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To charge under RICO, at least two predicate crimes within 10 years must have been committed through the enterprise.

Note that an enterprise is required. This might be a crime family, a street gang or a drug cartel. But it may also be a corporation, a political party, or a managed care company. The enterprise just has to be a discrete entity; but an enterprise is not the same as an individual. Thus, a corporation may be the enterprise through which individuals commit crimes, but it can't be both an individual and the enterprise.

As these cells operate together, they are no different from Mafia and Cartel cells that the US government fights with RICO.

Now how about Terror.

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Domestic Terrorism for the FBI’s purposes is referenced in U.S. Code at 18 U.S.C. 2331(5),
and is defined as activities:
• Involving acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United
States or of any State;
• Appearing to be intended to:
o Intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
o Influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion; or
o Affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping;
and
• Occurring primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States

Hence, anyone who has two cases within 4 years of participating in the encrypted organization and commission of an antifa riot, can be charged under RICO, and domestic terrorism charges.

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The criminal RICO statute provides for prison terms of 20 years and severe financial penalties. The law also allows prosecutors to attach assets, so they can't be whisked out of the country before judgment.

Civil RICO

Even though RICO threatens very long prison terms for racketeers, the law's real power is its civil component. Anyone can bring a civil suit if they've been injured by a RICO violation, and if they win, receive treble damages. In the 1980s, civil lawyers attempted to fit many different claims inside of RICO, but in the 1990s the federal courts set up a number of hurdles for civil RICO claims. To succeed on a RICO claim, a plaintiff must show:

Criminal Activity. You must show that the defendant committed one of the enumerated RICO crimes, which include the broad crimes of mail and wire fraud. If you bring a claim on a fraud basis, however, the court will apply strict scrutiny.
Pattern of Criminal Activity. One crime is not enough. You have to show a pattern of at least two crimes. A pattern requires the crimes be related in some way—same victim, same methods, same participants—or continuous, meaning it was conducted over at least a year.
Within the Statute of Limitations. The Supreme Court held that RICO has a four-year statute of limitations, which begins tolling from the time the victim discovers his or her damages.

So everyone who's had their storefront or car window smashed in a antifa riot can go for triple damages.

Oh wait there is more once they are a terrorist organization!

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Providing Material Support To Designated Terrorist Organizations (Fundraising) (18 U.S.C. 2339B)
The Antiterrorism Act also created 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, which makes it unlawful, within the United States, or for any person who is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States anywhere, to knowingly provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization that has been designated by the Secretary of State. See Pub. L. 104-132, § 303, 110 Stat. 1214, 1250.

Now anyone who helps pay for Antifa people to go to riots gets crushed under criminal penalties.

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Section 2339A convictions carry a sentence of imprisonment for not more than 15 years (for any period of years or for life if death results from commission of the offense) or a fine of not more than $250,000 (not more than $500,000 for an organizational defendant), or both imprisonment or a fine.

Plus civilian penalties.

Would this be going back to the Patriot Act?

Sure, but we have seen that this group is now killing people, and inflicting terror.