Georgia RICO Indictment
🟤 Election Tampering ·
Aug 14, 2023
Summary
Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted in Fulton County, Georgia in August 2023 under the state’s RICO statute on 13 counts of criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. The 98-page indictment by District Attorney Fani Willis charged a coordinated criminal enterprise spanning the fake electors scheme, the Raffensperger phone call, the breach of election equipment in rural Coffee County, and pressure campaigns against state and local officials. Four defendants, including Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, and Scott Hall, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate. Trump was photographed in a Fulton County booking mugshot, becoming the first sitting or former U.S. president to be arrested. Willis was later disqualified from prosecuting the case and passed the case to a substitute prosecutor, Pete Skandalakis. Skandalakis dropped the case stating that some of the defendants, namely the three fraudulent electors Trump contacted, lacked the “criminal intent” necessary for prosecution because “They genuinely and sincerely believed that their actions were a lawful component of the election contest process.”
Key Figures
Donald Trump, Brad Raffensperger, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Fani Willis, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis
Institutions Involved
Sources
- Trump GA indictment
- Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty - could testify in Georgia case
- Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia