 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor and welcome to my blog. Today's topic has to do with Andrew Thomas' misappropriating RICO funds while he was in office. Now, RICO funds stand for Racketeering Influence Corrupt Organization Act and there's funds that are collected from assets during search warrants from criminal activity. In this fund, they're supposed to be used to combat organized crime. Well, when Andrew Thomas was in office, he used $127,000 out of that fund in order to pay outside law firms for legal work performed on civil cases regarding himself and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now, Bill Montgomery was the current county attorney stated, money spent out of a RICO fund has to be carefully watched. You don't want to create a slush fund that isn't closely related to the criminal cases they're supposed to be used for. Now he said he may form an independent tracking council which will look into all of these violations. In regard to Pinal County Attorney Jim Walsh, he stated, I would find it a stretch and I'm not sure I would find it appropriate regarding Andrew Thomas' conduct. Lastly, former county attorney Rick Romley was asked about this and he stated, to me it's just so far out of the realm and I believe it goes against state law. Now he also stated, you can make everything part of conspiracy regarding Thomas and Arpaio. I don't think you have the authorization to pay for civil things with RICO money. In fact, Romley himself turned down paying $180,000 legal bill to an outside firm from Washington D.C. with RICO funds when he was in office. All in all, it appears that again Andrew Thomas has harmed the citizens of Arizona and everybody's waiting for somebody to do something about this guy. I don't know what's taking the state bar so long. I don't know what's taking investigators so long but something has to be done. But that's what I think, tell me what you think.