[TheCoelacanth]

The whole point of RICO is to allow the feds to intervene when the criminal organization is too large and powerful for local governments to be able to effectively prosecute them. This is exactly what RICO was designed for.

[bogositosius]

Which local governments have tried mounting a substantive case and failed?

[memmcgee]

I don't know... Maybe the local governments that were blocked from investigating by Greyball?

[bogositosius]

Then let them build a case against Uber for its use of Greyball. Why is federal involvement under RICO statutes necessary to do that?