Editor’s Notes: In U.S. law there is a statute to protect corporations from unfair business practices such as harassment, criminal mischief, vandalism, calumny, destruction of property etc.. It is called the RICO statute. However, criminal investigations in U. S. law are begun either on the initiative of a state or federal prosecutor who has jurisdiction to investigate, or several working together, or on the basis of the filing of a criminal complaint by a private person or legal representative of such or of a corporation. Thus, in my judgement, there is no question that collecting signatures requesting a RICO investigation of the U. S. Bishops for merely contracting with the U.S. government to care for indigents in the U.S.A. will have any effect other than disclosing to the one organizing the petition, the names and personal information of the ones signing it. — In my opinion, therefore, this petition seems to be the worst kind of grifting imaginable, inciting hatred of the Catholic Hierarchy while seeking to expand one’s base of support.