[openasocket]

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...

Any organization that is suspected of committing one of a list of crimes enumerated in that article, and engages in activity across state lines, falls under federal jurisdiction. In this case, I'm guessing the charge is obstruction of justice. But I'm not a lawyer, and they could be using something other than RICO to press this case

[bogositosius]

I looked at the enumerated crimes and I don't see "evading city taxi regulations" in there.

[openasocket]

How about obstruction of justice?

[bogositosius]

Point taken. I still think it's absurd to have a federal investigation over some city's taxi regulations being evaded, but at least I can follow the potential legal logic. Thanks for the info.

[kahnpro]

Some city? I think Uber willfully and flagrantly evades the taxi regulations of almost every single city that has them.

[bogositosius]

So what?

[npizzolato]

So they misled investigators throughout multiple cities across the United States. Therefore, it's a federal issue. This really isn't that hard to understand.