No. RICO was created as a way to deal with the Mafia.
Back in the 70's, the Mafia began to feel themselves and started wilding out.
Making the East Coast very hot and making it even more unsafe to be out in public.
Long before the crack era, mobsters decided to get brazen and started whacking each other in public places, in broad daylight.
Restaurants, bars, theatres, discos, sidewalks, etc.
They did this because they felt invincible and wanted to flex for the public at large rather than hiding in the shadows like they were used to.
The success of The Godfather kicked off the glorification of the Mafia in American pop culture, and the real mobsters were emboldened by it.
RICO turned out to be very successful in weakening the Mafia and drove it back to underground status.
John Gotti was the last prominent figure of that era.
John Gotti was called "The Teflon Don" because normal RICO procedurals failed to put him away.
By the time the crack era was ending, they had fine tuned RICO to avoid the mistakes they made with Gotti.
These days, you need nothing short of a miracle to escape a RICO case.
