[tialaramex]

My understanding is that RICO is intended to allow them to go after the guy behind the crew, rather than crew members, whereas Joint Enterprise is intended to allow them to convict the whole crew when a crime can't be pinned on specific individual members (e.g. because they wore masks; or they all stay silent and won't rat on who actually did it)

RICO means you can prosecute the godfather when his enforcers beat up store owners that owed him money, Joint Enterprise means you can convict all three armed bank robbers of murder even though you can't prove which of them shot the bank manager in the head when she was too slow opening the safe.