As the public defense. John got eat never even had for indictments at once. Theyre worried they cant beat him in the ballot box. Tonight sweeping rico charges for the ex president and his foot soldiers. No laws were written for any organization that turns itself into a criminal ongoing organization. Involving legal strategies for the maga inner circle. Great a get a great criminal defense lead lawyer. Youre gonna. Get late filing for mark meadows to move the Fulton County charges to Federal Court and which of the four criminal trials of Donald Trumps most important. Which will go to trial first . I did everything right and they indicted me. When all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight we are processing the aftermath of the latest sweeping indictment of donald trump, delivered by a Georgia Grand Jury less than 24 hours ago, announced last evening. Fulton County District attorney fani willis accuses the ex president of being involved in a criminal en
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u.s. attorney. he is now legal affairs columnist for the los angeles times. harry, i want to start with you with the general idea of rico isn t trident federal law and used by the department justice. and tanya, tell me a little about the georgia law. so starting generally, the federal recall, austin rico laws, what is the purpose, and i guess the question is, what makes them different cases? how are they structured? almost unique in criminal law so that the idea is to think about mafia operations that masqueraded legitimate businesses. think about the corleone olive oil family or tony soprano as a waste management consultant. but in fact just a criminal enterprise. that s the idea. and keeping that in mind as a metaphor is the best way to understand the charge. so it s as if the fani willis is saying the campaign was actually a criminal enterprise.
think about mafia operations that masqueraded legitimate businesses. think about the corleone olive oil family or tony soprano as a waste management consultant. but in fact just a criminal enterprise. that s the idea. and keeping that in mind as a metaphor is the best way to understand the charge. so it s as if the fani willis is saying the campaign was actually a criminal enterprise. think of it as a theft rig, but instead of stimulating, say, laugh laptops off the back of the track, it was trying to steal george s electoral votes. if you translate that into the statutory language, it does get vaporous and head-scratching, even for lawyers. i don t know if you want to move to that now or maybe talked to so pause that for second, i want to go to you, tanya, because the law in georgia is more capacious than the federal law we keep hearing about. it s been used quite a bit. it has been used by both fani willis is a prosecutor in her office.