2023-08-27 00:17:11
America
Trump’s legal problems
The Fulton Prosecutor’s Office accuses the former president and his 18 collaborators of violating the law by which the mafia is generally prosecuted
The Fulton County jail, in the state of Georgia, was in the crosshairs of the authorities since before Donald Trump. Its high rates of violence place it among the most dangerous in the country. The officers who work there say they are afraid of some of the prisoners. However, the prison only achieved international fame on August 24, when the first judicial snapshot of a former president of the United States was taken at the facility. The police photograph of Donald Trump that went around the world is historic and marks one of the darkest episodes for the country. The memory that democracy is fragile and can try to be violated. Also, of course, it is a reminder that justice does its job.
Trump lasted 20 minutes on the stagecoach, during which he was also fingerprinted. He was released after posting a previously negotiated bond of $200,000. He thus escapes being arrested on charges related to his attempt to nullify the 2020 elections in that state, which he lost by just over 11,000 votes against Joe Biden. It is the largest criminal case of the four criminal records he faces.
This time around, one of several things unique about Georgia’s impeachment against Trump is the number of defendants named in it. While the US government’s January 6 case against Trump largely focuses on the former president, in this case Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is pursuing a case not only against the former president, but also against others. 18 defendants who were lawyers, staff and local officials who allegedly worked with the former president.
The Public Ministry did it this way because it argues that the Trump campaign was at the center of a criminal enterprise and that many of the individuals named in the case helped assist that fraud attempt. Legally, establishing that Trump and his allies were part of a company, person, group, or business engaged in legal or illegal behavior is key to Willis’s contention that the defendants violated the Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO) from Georgia. Under this law, for example, the bosses of the mafias in this country are investigated.
To do so, prosecutors will need to convince a jury that all defendants are guilty of extortion and use coercion, manipulation and intimidation as necessary to further their goals. This group includes familiar and prominent faces such as former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, as well as lesser known individuals such as fake voters David Shafer and Shawn Still.
Rudy Giuliani, also a former New York mayor, is accused of pressuring legislatures in several states, including Georgia, to name electors who would hand Trump victory in the election, despite multiple recounts confirming his defeat.
Then we have former Trump attorney John Eastman, accused of coordinating an alternative group of voters in several states and submitting false documents alleging unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in Georgia, including the claim that thousands of criminals and minors voted. illegally.
Another accused is Sidney Powell, also a lawyer and accused of hiring a forensic data company to obtain information from Dominion voting machines throughout the country, including in Coffee County, Georgia. Powell is also alleged to have tampered with electronic ballot markers and machines in that county.
In this same line enters Kenneth Chesebro, accused of conspiring to present false documents about the voters of Georgia in court, and in which there were false statements. Supposedly, his memos helped fuel the plan to secure a group of alternative voters in each state that could be sent to Congress to cause confusion and mistrust.
Then we have Jenna Ellis, who reportedly wrote memos legally arguing that a vice president can intervene during the session of Congress meant to certify the electoral vote and can stop that vote. These memos allegedly helped form the basis of the lobbying campaign that Trump publicly waged to try to get his Vice President, Mike Pence, to help nullify the election.
And among the latest high-profile is Mark Meadows. Trump’s former chief of staff is portrayed by authorities as a facilitator, allegedly helping coordinate communications between Trump and Georgia election officials, arranging legal strategies and spreading false theories about voter fraud.
Ray Smith, Jeffrey Clark, Michael Roman, Misty Hampton and Robert Cheeley, all lawyers, are also accused of similar crimes in the case; as well as Pastor Stephen Lee, and simple Trump supporters like Scott Hall, Harrison Floyd, or Kanye West’s former publicist, Trevian Kutti. The list is closed by David Shafer, Shawn Still, Cathy Latham.
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