Fani Willis’ Trump case is getting 'stronger by the day' as she follows RICO’s 'well-worn playbook'

Attorney Jenna Ellis became the fourth co-defendant to flip on former President Donald Trump in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference case when she entered a "guilty" plea in an Atlanta courtroom. Under the plea agreement, Ellis was sentenced to probation instead of prison and must fully cooperate with Willis' office.

In separate cases, Willis and special counsel Jack Smith allege that Trump committed criminal acts when he tried to overturn the United States' 2020 presidential election results and attempted to stay in the White House despite losing to now-President Joe Biden. But Willis, unlike Smith, is using RICO laws to prosecute Trump and included a long list of co-defendants in the indictment — four of whom have flipped.

In an article published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJJ) on October 27, Tamar Hallerman and David Wickert emphasize that Willis has been using Georgia's RICO law in "high-profile cases for years."

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"As Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis advances her criminal case against the former president and his top deputies," the reporters explain, "she is following a well-worn playbook, legal experts say, working her way up the hierarchy by leveraging Georgia's sprawling anti-racketeering law. The approach has created momentum in Willis' investigation of Trump's failed attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's victory in Georgia following the 2020 presidential election."

Former DeKalb County, Georgia District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming predicts that other co-defendants will make plea deals with Willis' office in the hope of avoiding prison.

Fleming told AJC, "Her case is getting stronger by the day…. As they have their various motions decided, as they receive the discovery and as it becomes more clear that these co-defendants could start providing testimony against them, you'll start to see others race to the DA to try to get the best deal possible."

Morgan Cloud, who teaches law at Emory University in Atlanta, told AJC, "This is not only a classic organized crime conspiracy formula for success for a prosecution team, this is the classic format for a prosecution of any organization. If this were a white-collar investigation of a corporation for alleged wrongdoing, it's the same mechanism."

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Read the Atlanta Journal Constitution's full report at this link.