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Indictment on 51 charges including money laundering and extortion INSIDE THE NC EXECUTIVE BRANCH. Warrant issued for Charles Ruffin Poole. Poole was an aide for then Governor Easley.

If not for discretionary latitude, it would be about time for gang task forces in North Carolina to add the NC Executive Branch, to their databases of known criminal organizations.

When the North Carolina General Assembly was defining the STREET GANG ACT, several bikers and I visited the NC legislature and told them that according to their definition, the NC legislature and several Police Departments would qualify as gangs, as would just about any organization if not for arbitrary interpretation and discretionary enforcement.

This week, a federal grand jury indicted Charles Ruffin Poole on 51 charges including money laundering and extortion. The US Marshal Service has issued a warrant. Poole has not turned himself in.

Poole was an aide to former Governor Easley who is being investigated on other charges.

The 64-page indictment spares no detail about Poole's activity in the Easley administration where he was known as the "little governor."
The 64-page indictment was filed Thursday afternoon and lists 51 counts, including:
• Count 1: Extortion under code of official right; aiding and abetting
• Counts 2 & 3: Bribery concerning program federal funds; aiding and abetting
• Counts 4-15: Use of mail in the aid of racketeering
• Counts 16-27: Scheme and artifice to deprive others of right of honest services through mail and wire fraud; aiding and abetting
• Counts 28-42: Money laundering; aiding and abetting
• Counts 43-51: Monetary transactions in criminally derived property; aiding and abetting.

Comments from investigators: This is just the top if the iceberg. Heads are going to roll.