All posts tagged "Rico"

Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has been acquitted on the most serious charge of racketeering in his high-profile federal trial.

CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister called it "the best possible outcome for the defense."

The jury found Combs guilty on two charges, count 5, the Mann Act transportation of former girlfriend "Jane;" and guilty on Count 3, the Mann Act Transportation of Casandra Ventura....

New audio recordings released by CNN revealed that ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro had lots of grievances with the ex-president's campaign, but it also points to potentially new defendants, according to an ex-prosecutor.

Joyce Vance did an in-depth dive on the new evidence from CNN, which put together a timeline of what happened to fake elector ballots before Jan. 6, 2021. The article the outlet put out included some already reported information, as well as new audio recordings, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance said on Friday.

"None of this makes sense," Vance wrote while walking through the new evidence....

The “knockout blow” video of Jenna Ellis admitting that a staffer told her Donald Trump was 'not going to leave' the White House was leaked to the press by one of his co-defendant’s lawyers.

Misty Hampton’s lawyer Jonathan Miller made the admission Wednesday at a hearing to discuss Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ emergency motion for a protective order filed in response to the leak.

“So that I can go to sleep well tonight, judge," Miller told Fulton County court Judge Scott McAfee, "I did release those videos to one outlet."...

The Georgia prosecutor building a criminal election interference case against Donald Trump holds a powerful bargaining chip very likely “terrifying” the former U.S. president, a legal expert said.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Nick Akerman on Monday applauded Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for using the same tactic that led to the resignation of former President Richard Nixon. What’s more, Akerman used the words of Trump’s own attorney to do it.

“This so-called RICO case is nothing more than a bargaining chip for DA Willis,” Steven Sadow said last week. ...

Not everybody in Trump's RICO trial in Georgia is going to get a plea deal.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on his YouTube show "Justice Matters" suspects that there is good reason why former President Donald Trump and some of the 14 remaining co-defendants — namely Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and John Eastman are still facing conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election — and aren't getting offered sweet plea deals by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis like four others have.

"So you know what, Donald, Rudy, Mark [Meadows], y'all want a plea offer," said Kirschner. "Well, here's the offer: You go in and plead guilty to the indictment on every charge on which the grand jury indicted you."...

Georgia prosecutors building a criminal case against Donald Trump want to flip as many co-defendants as possible so they can focus on a smaller number of key players in what they say was a racketeering scheme to overturn a U.S. presidential election, legal experts say.

“They’re trying to shake as many of these co-defendants loose as they can,” Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor, told the Associated Press Tuesday, “and focus on the people they want to focus on and just step on the accelerator and get things moving.”

This tactic has seen Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis secure deals for Trump attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and, most recently Jenna Ellis, who cried in court as she submitted her plea Tuesday morning. Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall has also pleaded guilty....