13 felony charges including RICO, conspiracy to commit forgery and filing false documents
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Donald Trump has been indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, for his alleged roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election in the state – a key battleground that helped Joe Biden secure the presidency.
Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, secured the 41-count indictment from a grand jury on Monday.
Trump was charged along with 18 others – Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Ken Cheseboro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Ray Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Still, Stephen Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Sidney Powell, Cathleen Latham, Scott Hall and Misty Hampton.
There are also 30 unindicted co-conspirators.
Trump was charged with RICO – Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations; solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer; conspiracy to commit forgery in the first-degree; perjury; and a host of other counts.
All 19 were charged with ‘violation of the RICO’ act – usually used to charge a group of people and a ring leader.
The law was originally intended to charge mafias and gangs and is a federal law, but Georgia has additional racketeering statutes that can – and have – been used against figures outside of mob bosses or typical criminal enterprises.
Willis has said she likes the RICO statute because it allows prosecutors to paint a more complete picture of the alleged illegal activity.
‘Defendant Donald John Trump lost the United States presidential election held on November 3,2020,’ the 98-page indictment begins.
‘One of the states he lost was Georgia.
‘Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.