Mark Meadows, who represented North Carolina’s 11th congressional district for 7 years, has just been indicted along side Donald Trump and 17 others in a sweeping series of 13 felony charges comprised of 41 total counts leveled by prosecutors in Fulton County Georgia.
On October 26, 2022, South Carolina circuit judge Edward W. Miller directed Meadows to provide testimony before a Georgia grand jury examining the scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis spearheaded this investigation, looking into “the multistate, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
Meadow’s testimony, along with other evidence, led to the grand jury to vote to bring charges to Trump, Meadows, and their 17 other co-conspirators.
BREAKING: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announces charges against Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and others. https://t.co/M2qhDb1YUL pic.twitter.com/74GLmQq1Pu
— ABC News (@ABC) August 15, 2023
Arguably the most serious charge in yesterday’s indictments, which alone could result in a 5-20 year prison sentence, is the violation of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law.
According to the official indictment, the summary of the Racketeering charge is as follows:
“At all times relevant to this Count ofthe Indictment, the Defendants, as well as others not
named as defendants, unlawfully conspired and endeavored to conduct and participate
in criminal enterprise in Fulton County, Georgia, and elsewhere. Defendants Donald John Trump, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, John Charles Eastman, Mark Randall Meadows, Kenneth John Chesebro, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Jenna Lynn Ellis, Ray Stallings Smith III, Robert David Cheeley, Michael A. Roman, David James Shafer, Shawn Micah Tresher Still, Stephen Cliffgard Lee, Harrison William Prescott Floyd, Trevian C. Kutti, Sidney Katherine Powell, Cathleen Alston Latham, Scott Graham Hall, Misty Hampton, unindicted co-conspirators Individual through Individual 30, and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, constituted criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion ofprivacy, conspiracy
to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.
This criminal organization constituted an enterprise as that term is defined in O.C.G.A.
l6-14-3(3), that is, group of individuals associated in fact. The Defendants and other members and associates of the enterprise had connections and relationships with one another and with the enterprise. ‘The enterprise constituted an ongoing organization whose members and associates functioned as continuing unit for common purpose of achieving the objectives of the enterprise. The enterprise operated in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, in other states, including, but not limited to, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and in the District of Columbia. The enterprise operated for period of time sufficient to permit its members and associates to pursue its objectives.”
What do you think about the new indictments?
Do you think any of the individuals charged will face prison time?