The U.S. Justice Department released
the below information:
Taking another step toward
fulfilling President Trump’s goal of stamping out the brutal transnational
criminal organization MS-13, Attorney General Jeff Sessions today formally
designated the gang as a priority for the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime
Drug Enforcement Task Forces (“OCDETF”).
Addressing the International
Association of Chiefs of Police, the Attorney General explained that the formal
priority designation of MS-13 allows OCDETF to utilize an expanded toolkit in
its efforts to dismantle the organization. This means that OCDETF should look
to all laws in its investigative and prosecutorial efforts, including drug
laws, gun laws, tax laws, RICO, and anything else that will cripple the gang.
In his speech, the Attorney General said:
“But this work is not
finished. I am announcing today that I
have designated MS-13 as a priority for our Organized Crime Drug Enforcement
Task Forces. These task forces bring
together a broad coalition of our federal prosecutors, DEA, FBI, ATF, ICE, HSI,
the IRS, the Department of Labor Inspector General, the Postal Service
Inspectors, the Secret Service, the Marshals Service, and the Coast Guard. And they all have one mission: to go after
drug criminals and traffickers at the highest levels.
"Now they will go after
MS-13 with a renewed vigor and a sharpened focus. I am announcing that I have authorized them
to use every lawful tool to investigate MS-13—not just our drug laws, but
everything from RICO to our tax laws to our firearms laws. Just like we took Al Capone off the streets
with our tax laws, we will use whatever laws we have to get MS-13 off of our
streets.”
Note: I wrote a piece on MS-13
for Counterterrorism magazine. I’ll post it here when it comes out.
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