organization act. it s a charge whose federal version has been made famous in tv and film, ironically, but one of the 19 defendants, rudy giuliani, who used it as a u. s. district attorney against the new york mob and others in the 19 80s. jason carroll has more about it. this is the 11th rico indictment the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act, rico for short, was originally passed in 1970. as a tool to help wipe out organized crime. the verdict was like a bullet, puncturing john gadi s longtime image of invincibility from the law. at the time, it was dubbed the trial of the century. the u.s. versus john gotti. the boss of the gambino crime family was found guilty today, on all 13 counts of murder and racketeering. in the early 90s, prosecutors took down gotti, and charged him with racketeering, extortion, and murder. the law also used to take down the family, and mafia underlings throughout organized crime. rico laws allowed prosecutors to connect multip
about just, if people are wondering, what could take so long in order to have the investigation? look at the nuance and the specificity that is required here to prove ones burden of proof at the probable cause level, by the way. alone in the actual trial. one thing to really keep in mind here is that they are not just talking about false statements in the sense of, you know, to the average person. they are also incorporating in some of these counts statements made to the representatives themselves. and one issue, count 7:40, one to the georgia. house president of the house governmental affairs committee. lies told to the senate judiciary subcommittee meetings, statements were made to people, including felons, they claimed to have been illegally voting. underage persons illegally voting. people who are not otherwise on the registry, people who had used a post office box. there is that mail-in ballot nation that was a popular talking point. even list more than 10,000 or
down into as you said, 161 different acts, as well as additional 40 or so different counts. so the document is organized very well. while it may take us a while to read through it, we can see how each little brick blaze into building that bigger story. and again, those of us prosecuted in front of jury, you know, every piece of evidence relates to that theme in some way, shape, or for. each of these acts will have behind it various piece of evidence that the dea and her team will be putting forth at some point in the future to be able to convince the jury that these folks should be held accountable for these grants grimes. the other thing to point out about this rico statute, as lengthy or as broad as this document is, any prosecutor only needs to establish to predicate acts. she does not have to prove all
12,000 indictments are often since he s been district attorney in fulton county and that this is the 11th rico indictment of her term in office. and again her term in office only goes back to 2021. this is has characterized her approach, for those who don t know a lot about her. she s aggressive, and someone say overaggressive. she s not the first or last prosecutor who had taken expensive overpowers. some defensive lawyers cola overcharging. we ve talked about this is we read it. this is very broad, this is very tough. i would say if you are a defendant or a lawyer for the defendant named in this case, and are some people who are not superstars, it is very bad news. she s not playing around. she is not delaying and she s not negotiating. so she s telling everyone coming by friday, we talked about the former president. she said he likes everybody else, have to come in by friday voluntary surrender if he doesn t want to deal with an arrest warrant. said that about everybody else. she
government and accused of forgery of all things? you have to be doing something really untoward at that point. neil, let me take you back to act 90 which you identified for us because what is so interesting about it is it describes a meeting and conspiratorial ideas that were discussed but were not acted on. it says that donald trump, giuliani, powell, and identified coconspirator 20 discussed certain strategies and theories including season voting equipment and appointing powell as special counsel. now they didn t do either one of those things and yet it appears as if part of one of the acts of criminal conspiracy. does that mean that when you are engaging abroad rico conspiracy like this that when