Legal experts tonight. Were discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. It is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the Washington Post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d. A. Knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. Why . Because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. Maybe youre a busy coconspirator. Maybe youre a coward and send other people to do things for you. Under the Georgia State rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. Thats one of the ways d. A. Willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19 defendants. Theyre not all Household Names. I want to show you def
now, meek mill said he moved on from being on the most wanted list. trump is a defendant on what you might call georgia s most wanted list. these are the different plots, some of these, of course, very familiar, because if you look at the top of your screen, the electors plot was under scrutiny in the january 6th probe. and doj charged it through jack smith s probe. but there are new things that this d.a. has uncovered. the second arrow is the effective plot to get georgia to overturn the votes. the d.a. has also charged the vice president pence plot out of georgia because it related. the doj interference as well, and if you go down to the bottom two arrows here, this is part of the rico conspiracy for the first time, we can show you that horrific poll worker harassment, it was unethical, terrible, it was criticized, but now it is indicted as part of the rico conspiracy along with the alleged voting data breach led