she is a specialist. she s brought on her team a lawyer named john coyt who is known for his fluency with the georgia rico statute. that gives them the ability not only to exceed her jurisdiction in fulton county, georgia, and look at events that took place elsewhere in the state, but it does permit her to include these overt acts that took place outside of georgia as well. in reading the indictment last night and this morning because i got cross eyed last night. it was very late at night. i was struck by, as everyone was, the level of detail and the way that she went through day and day after day after day, donald trump made this call, this email was sent, it was responded to. devlin, you have been covering the aspects of this case even before we got this indictment, all of the aspects of what happened between the election
steal the race? ari, i prosecuted the first corrupt public official in georgia under the georgia rico statute, and we got a conviction. there was a sheriff who we convicted of rico and murder. this statute is the most powerful weapon in a prosecutor s arsenal. because as you have just illustrated, not only can you bring in the crimes that occurred in georgia under the georgia statute, you can bring in crimes that occurred in other states and federal crimes. that s why jack smith probably did not use the federal statute. it s not as broad as the georgia statute, and with this statute, there are 160 overt acts that are alleged in the rico statute. the prosecutor only has to prove two of them to prove the rico charge. professor? again, this is a really broad and sweeping statute. the georgia statute is more expansive than most state rico
prosecution of this thing, along with the timing of it all? i think that is right, this is a very different prosecution, with very different motivations than the one that jack smith is doing. his is a prosecution designed for speed, i suspect what we ll see here is the prosecution designed for completeness. the georgia rico statute is complicated, the longest trove that ever took place in georgia took a couple of months, a trial that took place under this particular statute. there are a lot of moving parts. add in additional defendants and you ve got more complexity. we ve all seen in the mar-a-lago prosecution, that it s taken time. just to get lawyers. just to arrange the defendants. which is a state that s usually so just, so routine, that it happens days following arraignment. but in florida, that s still ongoing. now, multiply that out, you ve got a dozen or so defendants,
predicate for the georgia rico statute. so this does not auger well for the individuals like rudy giuliani, sidney powell, and others, and donald trump of course. that this may be part of a major rico indictment of all of these individuals, tieing in all of the other facets of what they did in georgia to try and change the right. and you mentioned this rico case and fani willis has tried a number of those. they are in her wheelhouse. he s expected to seek a dozen indictments this week. we know that. this is racketeering and conspiracy charges what you re laying out and these are wide-ranging cases. there is a lot of layers to them. as an assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york, were the first to prosecute a mafia boss. so you have some experience at
now to discuss these developments. michael zeldin. he is a former federal prosecutor. michael great to see you. so um , by learning of these texts now what possible laws were broken based on this new reporting? well what we have here is the unauthorized access to this privileged computer data. there is a conspiracy to acquire and improperly distribute that data . there is probably a crime of interfering with the rights of the people of georgia to have a free and fair election. and this is this is a series of crimes a pattern of criminal activity, then it could possibly violate the georgia rico statute, which criminalizes a series of criminal activities by the same person or group of persons. so there s a lot of steak here, so this kind of evidence tells you what about the potential for prosecutors to kite and widen their probe? i think public