The charges in Fulton County implicate the former president as the head of a sweeping conspiracy to subvert his defeat. It's the fourth indictment in as many months for Trump.
against everyone from street gangs and public school teachers cheating on standardized tests — allows prosecutors to pursue charges against members of an"enterprise" that show a"pattern of racketeering activity" through a specific set of conduct known as"predicate acts." The state RICO Act is based on — and is broader than — theIndeed, the Georgia indictments paint a complex picture of an alleged criminal enterprise to keep Trump in office after the 2020 election.
The allies include Ray Smith, a Georgia attorney who has been charged in the case for his role in leading a portion of the hearing that outlined false claims about thousands of illegal votes in the state; and Eastman, who was an architect of the plan to keep Trump in power, and who claimed lawmakers were allowed to disregard election results under the Constitution.Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Fulton County Courthouse on Aug. 17, 2022, in Atlanta.
Eastman and Giuliani were among the six unindicted co-conspirators listed in the federal indictment of Trump by special counsel Smith, along with attorney Powell and Clark, the Department of Justice official who proposed sending a letter urging officials to convene a special legislative session to appoint Republican electors, and Cheseboro, an attorney who help orchestrate the alternative elector scheme. All are charged here.
The fake electors have argued that they were doing so in case Trump's lawsuit challenging the results was successful.
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