Rudy Giuliani

When he was a federal prosecutors in New York City back in the 1980s, Rudy Giuliani was praised for using the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act to break the back of the East Coast mafia.

Now, Giuliani is himself facing a RICO charge related to his alleged role in Donald Trump's efforts to delegitimize the 2020 election results in Georgia. He is facing between 5 and 20 years in prison if convicted.

This indictment comes as the result of a large investigation into Trump and his allies’ actions in Fulton County, Ga., to cast seeds of doubt on the integrity of the last presidential election where Trump failed to be reelected to office. The indictment, which marks the fourth time Trump has been indicted this year, not only outlines actions taken by Trump and his allies in Georgia, but also actions in other states, including Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s infamous visit to a Michigan House hearing in December 2020.

Fulton grand jury indicts Trump, members of his inner circle

Now that he has been indicted in a sweeping racketeering probe by Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis into efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump faces a unique threat.

He has many co-defendants – many of whom are not wealthy and face financial destruction from their indictments. That gives them huge incentive to flip on him to save themselves, Salon reported.

Donald Trump vowed to unmask the "riggers" who stole the election from him after he was indicted in Georgia.

The ex-president and 18 of his allies were charged late Monday in Fulton County on racketeering and other charges related to a wide-ranging conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and Trump responded the following morning with an announcement of a report that he claims will prove voting fraud.

Despite former President Donald Trump's mounting legal problems, his presidential competitors in the GOP primary are "trapped" by the whims of a base that believes he's a victim of a witch hunt, lamented GOP strategist Scott Jennings on CNN Tuesday.

This comes after the Fulton County District Attorney issued a sweeping indictment against Trump and several of his allies, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Georgia GOP Chair David Shafer, and more than a dozen others.

Donald Trump was finally indicted in Georgia, and a legal expert said his 18 co-conspirators now face intense pressure to flip and cooperate with investigators.

The twice-impeached president was indicted late Monday for a fourth time on racketeering and other charges related to a wide-ranging effort to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, and legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that charges against nearly two dozen allies cannot be undone with a pardon if Trump is re-elected next year.

A massive 98-page indictment connecting former President Donald Trump and 18 other people to a laundry list of criminal charges was unsealed in Fulton County late Monday.

The filing, unsealed after the grand jury sat late into the evening, includes 41 charges involving efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state of Georgia, shared between the 19 defendants.

A list of 19 people have been indicted on 41 criminal counts involving interference in the 2020 election result, the Fulton County grand jury ruled on Monday.

According to the published indictment unsealed late Monday, among those that have been indicted are former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was working as Trump's lawyer at the time.

Reuters is reporting that a two-page docket posted apparently accidentally on the Fulton County court's website showed multiple charges that could be filed against former President Donald Trump this week.

According to Reuters, the docket report, which was quickly deleted shortly after being posted, showed Trump indictments for charges including racketeering, conspiracy, and making false statements.

Former impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen explained that the evidence in the 2020 election case connects activities all the way to the former president.

CNN broke the news Saturday that prosecutors have access to the text messages and emails exchanged among Donald Trump's campaign legal team about the efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors have proof that allies of twice-impeached thrice-indicted former President Donald Trump "attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president's baseless claims of widespread fraud," sources familiar with the investigation told CNN's Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray over the weekend.

Willis' office has collected "text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump's legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County," Cohen and Murray wrote on Sunday. "Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump's team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation."