G Robert Blakey obituary
Summary
G Robert Blakey, who died at age 90, was a top American legal expert on organized crime. He helped create the laws known as the RICO statutes and led an important government investigation into President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, suggesting a possible conspiracy.Key Facts
- Blakey specialized in organized crime law and wrote key parts of the 1970 Organized Crime Control Act, including the RICO statutes.
- He also drafted the wiretapping section of a 1968 law on crime control and safe streets.
- Blakey served as chief counsel for the 1977 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), which investigated JFK’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s shootings.
- The HSCA report concluded JFK was likely killed in a conspiracy involving at least two gunmen.
- Blakey blamed the mafia and named two crime bosses as involved in the assassination plot.
- He co-wrote a bestselling 1981 book about the assassination called The Plot to Kill the President.
- Blakey studied law at Notre Dame and worked in the Justice Department’s organized crime division under Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
- Later, Blakey became a law professor at Notre Dame and director of the Institute on Organized Crime at Cornell University.
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