Racketeering charges in Georgia

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The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia has developed sufficient evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an “enterprise” – and a pattern of racketeering activity that is predicated on at least two “qualifying” crimes.

In the Trump investigation, the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has amassed enough evidence to pursue a racketeering indictment predicated on statutes related to influencing witnesses and computer trespass, the people said.

Willis had previously said she was weighing racketeering charges in her criminal investigation, but the new details about the direction and scope of the case come as prosecutors are expected to seek indictments starting in the first two weeks of August.

The racketeering statute in Georgia is more expansive than its federal counterpart, notably because any attempts to solicit or coerce the qualifying crimes can be included as predicate acts of racketeering activity, even when those crimes cannot be indicted separately.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/georgia-trump-charges-fraud-election-2020
 
This is the case, i think is the most important of them all.

Jack Smith has two cases of great importance but the fact that none of his cases are, by betting odds, are going to complete before the election, means that any GOP Potus, should they win, will almost certainly either end those cases or just pardon Trump, saying the nation needs to move forward and heal. That is whether Trump wins the GOP nom or anyone else.

And if Trump escapes those charges via pardon or any other means he will claim vindication.

Fani Willis however will be able to complete her case and get her verdict and not have it subject to any GOP POTUS interference.

The worst that can happen to Fani case, would be if it was mid trial, and Trump won and was POTUS and he got the SC to 'stay' the State Prosecution, due to it interfering with his ability to govern as POTUS.

Some legal scholars believe that type of request might be granted by SCOTUS in a similar belief to why the DoJ will not charge a sitting POTUS but the charges can proceed when he leaves office. No one has tested any of it in court, but Trump certainly would.
 
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