G Robert Blakey obituary

US attorney and a key figure in the investigations into the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King G Robert Blakey, who has died aged 90, was one of America’s leading legal scholars, and his speciality was organised crime. He is best remembered for writing the part of the 1970 Organized Crime Control Act aimed at “racketeer influenced criminal organisations”. Its provisions became popularly known as the Rico statutes, recalling the Edward G Robinson character Rico, an Italian...

By Michael Carlson