Maui. Identifying the dead and getting help to frustrated survivors. And north korea now confirming that it has custody of a u. S. Soldier who dashed across the dmz. What happens to him now. Good morning and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im danny freeman. We begin with the 19 defendants indicted in the Georgia Election sin version case. Will any of them turn themselves in today for criminal processing. The d. A. Gave them until the end of next week to surrender themselves and the sheriff says that they can show up at the jail anytime 24 7. Sheriff says he expects former President Trump to appear there for booking but when exactly . Trump still hasnt said. More now from sara murray in atlanta. Reporter a then day clock fr donald trump and his allies to turn themselves in. Im giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday 25th day of august, 2023. Reporter after Fulton County District Attorney fani willis un
and there were several organized crime figures indicted by giuliani under rico. it is a very sad day to see somebody who was such a pioneer using this very statute to show how it can be used being on the receiving end of it right now. reporter: throughout this investigation, donald trump and his allies have vehemently denied any wrongdoing. rudy giuliani is calling this indictment in georgia, quote, an affront to american democracy and he says the real criminals are the people who have brought the case forward. brian todd, cnn, washington. for more, let s bring in a former prosecutor. jeremy, based on what you have read, do you feel fani willis has a strong legal basis for rico charges? absolutely. people should should not conflate rico solely with mafia-related prosecution or charge.
the danger of using rico, it is more complicated. you have multiple defendants now and that makes it a harder case to prove and for the jury, becomes much harder to follow. reporter: analysts say georgia s version of rico is not very different from the federal rico act signed into law in 1970. it has been extremely successful, a real hammer on a lot of different defendants. reporter: and one of the by nears of using that rico statute now finds himself targeted by it. this election was a sham. reporter: former trump attorney rudy giuliani facing several rico-related charges in the georgia case. in the 1980s, serving as top federal prosecutor in manhattan, giuliani was aggressive in using rico to take down the city s most powerful dons. used it against the mafia commission, basically breaking up the five families going after the bosses themselves. reporter: notorious violence bosses like fat tony so lerno.
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enterprise. reporter: and the words she wrote in her in-gdictment o donald trump like calling he and his associates a criminal organization, fani willis made this georgia indictment seem like other famous prosecutions. the d.a. made clear in her remarks this this was no different than a mafia rico conspiracy. reporter: the georgia rico law is what trump and his co-defendants are charged with violating as part of their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. rico standing for racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations. experts say the advantage of rico is that it allows several individuals to be tried together. it is a loose group of correlated individuals and schemes in which not every individual has to know what the other individual was doing. reporter: but using the statute has disadvantages too.