Official, jeffrey clark. The charge sheet refers to the defendants as a quote criminal organization. The Indictment Document says mr trump Knowingly And Willingly joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in georgia, and elsewhere. Its the fourth case brought against mr trump this year. Lets take a listen to what Fulton County District Attorney fani willis said. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal, Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. Subsequent to the indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law, The Grand Jury issued Arrest Warrants for those who were charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday, the 25th day of august 2023. The investigation into mr trump was sparked by a phone call between the former president and georgias Secretary Of State, brad raffe
Pleas to the charges. Our correspondent Daniel De Simone has been tracking the Court Proceedings and sent this update from the old bailey. Theyve been in the uk for between ten and 15 years. The three defendants are orlin roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov and katrin ivanova. The latter two have been living as a couple in a series of suburban properties in london for about ten years. Mr roussev arrived earlier in the uk, about 15 years ago, and he worked in financial services, in a technical role in communications, and later moved on to, he claims, own a company that was involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications. The other two worked, were told, in health care jobs. Thats what they told neighbours. They did own a local Community Group that supported bulgarian people who moved to the uk with english language classes and other things. This investigation is by the met Police Counterterrorism team, which has responsibility over espionage investigations. It
Of election fraud. Lets run through extracts of that call starting with the debunked claims from the former president about suitcases of ballots the president also made claims about so called dead voters. Brad raffensperger did push back in his call with President Trump heres a series of further extracts. And in the most explicit part of the call trump spelled out how many voters he needed. Stephen loosley an analyst in us politics at the United States studies centre in sydney laid out the legal dilemmas mr trump now faces. Its a very serious indictment for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is Racketeering Charge under Georgia State law and racketeering legislation is modelled on the Originalfederal Legislation is modelled on the original federal legislation that was designed to bring down the mafia. The problem that donald trump faces is generally a conviction under legislation in georgia leads to a prison sentence, it is not certain that is the probability. Secondly, mark meadows, th
Good afternoon. Hes running for the white house again next year, but now donald trump is facing a fourth set of criminal charges. This time hes accused of trying to overturn his defeat in the last president ial election in the state of georgia. The 13 counts against him include violating georgias law On Racketeering. He is also charged with conspiracy to commit forgery and with making false statements. He says the charges are politically motivated. From washington, sean dilley. Hello, maam. Thank you. This was the moment Fulton County judge Robert Mcburney approved the grand jury s decision to indict donald trump and 18 alleged conspirators On Racketeering charges the same laws used to persue mob bosses. Prosecutors say their investigation was in part prompted by this leaked call between the then president and georgias top election official, brad raffensperger. Among Donald Trumps co defendants, his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and his former attorneys Rudy Giuliani a