GA - Ex-POTUS Donald Trump and others indicted, 13 counts in 2020 election interference, violation of RICO Act, Aug 2023 *4 guilty* #3

[no nonsense]

Ooh, slight correction: the plan to offer a plea deal in the near future

 

[JerseyGirl]

3 Coffee County election officials identified as state witnesses in 2020 Georgia election trial

The three could testify in the Oct. 23 trial against Sidney Powell about the election data breaches in Coffee County

www.11alive.com

The Fulton County District Attorney's Office planned to subpoena Coffee County's Ernestine Thomas-Clark, Wendell Stone, and Eric Cheney in the case against Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, according to documents reviewed by 11Alive and an attorney for the county's election board.

The three join former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik among the growing group of witnesses prosecutors may call to testify about alleged election subversion plots in Georgia.

 

[no nonsense]

Had trouble earlier with photo of pertinent lines from this article. Here’s the article mentioning the probably plea offer to Chesebro and Powell Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants

 

[Niner]

Tevis,Bob Costello and David Wolfe have withdrawn from his cases.

Thank you! I shall correct my notes.

Local paper says she and Chesboro were offered plea deals.

I am going with what the court site has - so will have to see if they are offered a plea notice on their court case. For the time being I will leave it as is & keep an eye on their court cases.

 

[Niner]

Thursday, Oct. 5th:
*Motions Hearing (Powell only) (@ 1:30pm ET) - GA – State of Georgia
vs. Sidney Katherine Powell (68) (Trump campaign lawyer) indicted & charged (8/14/23) with 1 count of violation of the Georgia RICO Act (1), 2 counts of conspiracy to commit election fraud (32 & 33), 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer theft (34), 1 count conspiracy to commit computer trespass (35), 1 count conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy (36) & 1 count conspiracy to defraud the State. (total 7 counts). Bond $100K. Surrendered 8/23/23. Plead not guilty (8/29/23) & waived arraignment. Represented by Brian T. Rafferty.
Trial set to begin on 10/20/23 with jury selection. Trial set to begin on 11/6/23.
Case (with unindicted co-conspirators) & court info from 2/10/21 thru 9/27//23 reference post #453 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...tion-of-rico-act-14-aug-2023-3.689482/page-23
9/28/23 Update: Trump's Motion to adopt co-defendant Shafer's plea in bar & motion to quash indictment. Trump's updated Notice regarding removal of his prosecution to Federal Court. Trump now notifies the Court that he will NOT be seeking to remove his case to federal court. Eastman's waiver of his statutory right to speedy trial only as to the Sept. 2023 term of Court.
9/29/23 Update: Chesebro: Order on Motion to Dismiss search warrant (suppress evidence) from email account. After reviewing the motion & assuming the relevant proffered facts to be true, the Court nevertheless finds that the motion fails to raise sufficient questions of law or fact that would require an evidentiary hearing & DENIES the motion. Order on defendant's Motion to Dismiss or grant immunity. Motion DENIED. Order to Seal: Documents contained in envelope shell be filed under seal. Order on State's Notice of Potential Conflicts. Defense counsel Scott Grubman does not create an actual or serious potential conflict of interest.
9/29/23 Update: All: Amended Case Specific Scheduling Order. Discovery: Initial discovery from the State is due by 10/6/23. Initial discovery from the defendants is due by 12/4/23. Motions (other than motions in limine) are due by 1/8/24. All other provisions remain in place.
9/29/23 Update: Defendant's Waiver of Indictment by Grand Jury. Fulton County 2020 election interference RICO defendant Scott Hall is in court right now taking a plea deal. Hall is implicated in the scheme to illegally copy election data from rural Coffee County. Scott plead guilty to 5 counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties. Scott was indicted on racketeering & 6 counts of conspiracy. He was seen on security footage at the Coffee County Board of Elections on Jan 7, 2021, when a team of pro-Trump operatives & a forensic data team copied sensitive elections info. Hall was sentenced to 5 years of probation in exchange for testimony moving forward (including at trials of other co-defendants), a $5K fine & 200 hours of community service. Probation becomes non-reporting after 2.5 years, assuming he does not violate his probation during those initial 2.5 years. And will have to write letter of apology to Georgia citizens.
9/29/23 Update: Eastman: Waiver of His Statutory Right To Speedy Trial Only As To The September 2023 Term Of Court. He moved to sever his trial from the Chesebro/Powell trial. Eastman has not exercised his right to a speedy trial because his attorneys are unable to render constitutionally effective assistance on the speedy trial question until they have received & evaluated all the discovery in this case.
9/29/23 Update: Clark: Waiver of Speedy Trial consistent with OCGA 17-7-170. Notice: Order of remand from U.S. District Court, No. GA. RE: Notice of removal of Fulton County Superior Court Indictment. (Has not met his burden-DENIED).
9/29/23 Update: Case management hearing for Chesebro & Powell: Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade says the office intends to make plea offers to Chesebro & Powell ahead of their 10/23/23 trials. Next Calendar DAR Call hearing on 10/11/23.
9/29/23 Update: Chesebro: Order on Motion to Dismiss Search Warrant (Suppress Evidence) The Court finds that the motion fails to raise sufficient questions of law or fact that would require an evidentiary hearing & DENIES the motion. Order on Defendant's Motion to Dismiss or grant immunity. Order allowing filing under seal re documents in envelope. Order on State's Notice. Motion requesting additional time to question jurors (During the 9/29/23 hearing the Court stated that the parties would each have one hour to question a panel of 14 potential jurors, which amounts to less than 5 minutes per juror). Motion requesting additional jury strikes (asks for 5 additional strikes).
9/29/23 Update: Order of Remand from U.S. District Court, No. GA. Notice of removal of Fulton County Superior Court Indictment for Latham, Clark, Still & Shafer offered plea deals.
10/1/23 Update: The Fulton County DA’s office has issued a subpoena to former NY Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik to testify in the first trial later this month in the case stemming from election subversion plots in Georgia, according to his lawyer. But Kerik’s lawyer, Tim Parlatore, is demanding that his client be granted immunity in exchange for testifying, pointing out that prosecutors indicated in the indictment that Kerik was a “co-conspirator” in the case. While not named in the indictment, CNN previously reported that Kerik is co-conspirator No. 5. With the Kerik subpoena, the Fulton County DA’s office is trying to secure potentially crucial trial testimony from a witness who can shed light on various efforts by Trump & his allies to upend the 2020 election results in Georgia.
10/2/23 Update: All: State corrected response to defendant Powell General Demurrer & Motion to dismiss count 1 (RICO).
10/2/23 Update: Still: Defendant's plea in bar & Motion to quash the indictment (Court lacks jurisdiction).
10/3/23 Update: Guiliani: Order allowing attorney to withdraw-L. David Wolfe.
10/3/23 Update: Powell: Notice of Motions hearing re Motion for Brady Material (Powell #54) & Motion to Dismiss for prosecutorial misconduct (Powell #60) on 10/5/23 @ 1:30pm.
10/3/23 Update: Roman: Defendants Motion for Continuance from Oct 2023 Date & Tried Separately from Defendants Who Filed Speedys
*Scott Graham Hall (fake GOP elector tied to Coffee County breach) indicted & charged (8/14/23) with 1 count violation of the Georgia RICO Act (1), 2 counts conspiracy to commit election fraud (32 & 33), 1 count conspiracy to commit computer theft (34), 1 count conspiracy to commit computer trespass (35), 1 count of conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy (36) & 1 count conspiracy to defraud the State (37). (total 7 counts). Bond $10K. Surrendered on 8/22/23 & posted Surety bond ($4K for RICO & $1K for 6 other charges). Bond $10K. Surrendered 8/23/23. Plead not guilty (9/2/23) & waived arraignment. Represented by Lynsey M. Barron. Attorneys Jeffrey S. Weiner, Diego Weiner & Yisel Villar.
Plead guilty (9/29/23) & sentenced to to 5 years of probation in exchange for testimony moving forward (including at trials of other co-defendants), a $5K fine & 200 hours of community service. Probation becomes non-reporting after 2.5 years, assuming he does not violate his probation during those initial 2.5 years. And will have to write letter of apology to Georgia citizens.

 

[sds71]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1710012088154734733

 

[no nonsense]

Thank you! I shall correct my notes.



I am going with what the court site has - so will have to see if they are offered a plea notice on their court case. For the time being I will leave it as is & keep an eye on their court cases.

Apologies- they were being offered “in the near future” (see my linked article from the AJC above).

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

Fulton DA previews witnesses for first Trump RICO trial

Fulton prosecutors on Thursday provided hints about their plans in the upcoming trial of two of the now 18 defendants in their 2020 election interference case.

www.ajc.com

Fulton prosecutors on Thursday provided hints about their plans in the upcoming trial of two defendants in their 2020 election interference case.

The District Attorney’s office filed petitions seeking testimony from six witnesses who live outside of Georgia. Among them was Boris Epshteyn, a lawyer in former President Donald Trump’s inner circle; former Atlanta libel attorney Lin Wood; and several GOP officials in other swing states that Trump contested three years ago.

The petitions would function similarly to subpoenas if approved by judges in witness’s home states.

The documents provide a preview of the DA’s approach in the coming racketeering trial involving Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, jury selection for which will begin on Oct. 20. Both demanded a speedy trial, which prompted a Fulton judge to separate them from the case’s other 18 defendants, including Trump, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s onetime personal attorney.

 

[SkyBoomer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1710012088154734733

“Oh noooo! The consequences of my own actions!”

 

[vls12345]

Judge denies former Trump lawyer’s motion to dismiss RICO charges using Monty Python reference

The January 6th Commission said Kenneth Chesebro was one of the architects of the false electors scheme here in Georgia and six other states across the country.

www.wsbtv.com

"In his ruling, McAfee also referenced Monty Python’s famous ‘Dead Parrot Sketch.’ During the sketch, a customer attempts to return a dead parrot to a pet store, and the store clerk continues to make unsupported claims that the bird is still alive.

“And if this parrot of a motion is somehow not yet dead, the Defendant has failed to establish how Special ADA Wade’s actions resulted in prejudice,” McAfee wrote."

 

[Inthedetails]

Judge denies former Trump lawyer’s motion to dismiss RICO charges using Monty Python reference

The January 6th Commission said Kenneth Chesebro was one of the architects of the false electors scheme here in Georgia and six other states across the country.

www.wsbtv.com

"In his ruling, McAfee also referenced Monty Python’s famous ‘Dead Parrot Sketch.’ During the sketch, a customer attempts to return a dead parrot to a pet store, and the store clerk continues to make unsupported claims that the bird is still alive.

“And if this parrot of a motion is somehow not yet dead, the Defendant has failed to establish how Special ADA Wade’s actions resulted in prejudice,” McAfee wrote."

The judge in NY quoted the Marx Brothers and now we have a judge referencing Monty Python. What's next?




jmo

 

[vls12345]

Texts, documents hint at Scott Hall's wide ties to Coffee County breach, Trump allies ahead of trial

Hall played a part in various post-election events, and he's taken a plea deal. He will testify in the Georgia 2020 election trials.

www.11alive.com

 

[JerseyGirl]

Georgia county summons Nevada fake elector Jim DeGraffenreid in trial for Trump lawyers • Nevada Current

Nevada State Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid is one of six non-Georgia residents being summoned to testify in an upcoming trial for Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell — two attorneys indicted by the Peach State for their part in attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020...

www.nevadacurrent.com

Nevada State Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid is one of six non-Georgia residents being summoned to testify in an upcoming trial for Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell — two attorneys indicted by the Peach State for their part in attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 election.

Fulton County prosecutors in a legal filing say DeGraffenreid and Chesebro communicated about the logistics of the convening of Nevada’s fake electors for former President Donald Trump on Dec. 14, 2020 and that Chesebro provided “specific documents and instructions” to DeGraffenreid.

 

[anneg]

Judge denies former Trump lawyer’s motion to dismiss RICO charges using Monty Python reference

The January 6th Commission said Kenneth Chesebro was one of the architects of the false electors scheme here in Georgia and six other states across the country.

www.wsbtv.com

"In his ruling, McAfee also referenced Monty Python’s famous ‘Dead Parrot Sketch.’ During the sketch, a customer attempts to return a dead parrot to a pet store, and the store clerk continues to make unsupported claims that the bird is still alive.

“And if this parrot of a motion is somehow not yet dead, the Defendant has failed to establish how Special ADA Wade’s actions resulted in prejudice,” McAfee wrote."

It's a great sketch!

 

[SouthAussie]

David Shafer, Shawn Still and Cathy Latham, the so-called ‘fake’ electors charged in the Georgia election racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 15 others, are taking a second shot at being tried in federal rather than state court.

The trio on Friday filed notices to appeal to the 11th Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals that seeks to overturn the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones last Friday that denied their motions to remove their cases out of Fulton County.

Legal observers have cast the “fake” electors as having the most far-fetched legal basis to be tried in federal court under the Federal Removal statute. One Georgia State University law professor, Anthony Michael Kreis, took to X before their September hearing to say they should be “laughed out of the courtroom.”

Pro-Trump ‘Fake’ Electors Appealing Judge's Ruling Denying Their Bid to Move Georgia RICO Case to Federal Court

David Shafer, Shawn Still and Cathy Latham sent notice on Friday they'll take their arguments to the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals

themessenger.com

 

[JerseyGirl]

Giuliani's Palm Beach Condo Gets IRS Lien For Unpaid Taxes

The Internal Revenue Service has placed a lien on a condo owned by Rudy Giuliani in Palm Beach, Florida, over unpaid taxes from 2021.

www.benzinga.com

The Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, has placed a lien on a condo owned by Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and onetime attorney to Donald Trump, in Palm Beach, Florida, over unpaid taxes from 2021.

The notice filed in August reveals that Giuliani owes $549,435.26 in unpaid income taxes. The condo, now deemed collateral, could be used to repay these taxes if sold.

Beyond the lien, Giuliani faces other financial challenges. In September, law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron filed a lawsuit against him, claiming he owes almost $1.4 million in unpaid bills. Additionally, his Manhattan apartment, listed for sale at $6.5 million, has yet to be sold.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Fulton 19 recap: DA death threats, judge keeps Oct. 23 trial start on track, plea deals in works • Georgia Recorder

Recap of Georgia Trump 2020 presidential election interference trial covers Fulton DA Willis threats, judge ruling on Powell, Chesebro cases.

georgiarecorder.com

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis says she continues to receive personal threats.

Willis said late last week that receiving an estimated 150 threats over the last two months make her worried that her life is at risk. During a Fulton County Commission meeting, Willis detailed the stress her staff and other county employees are experiencing because of the visceral reaction among Trump’s supporters to the high-profile case.

The threats are made through a variety of channels, including the county’s customer service line, her office telephone, the magistrate court, as well as through text messages and other forms of communication, Willis said.

 

[Inthedetails]

Fulton 19 recap: DA death threats, judge keeps Oct. 23 trial start on track, plea deals in works • Georgia Recorder

Recap of Georgia Trump 2020 presidential election interference trial covers Fulton DA Willis threats, judge ruling on Powell, Chesebro cases.

georgiarecorder.com

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis says she continues to receive personal threats.

Willis said late last week that receiving an estimated 150 threats over the last two months make her worried that her life is at risk. During a Fulton County Commission meeting, Willis detailed the stress her staff and other county employees are experiencing because of the visceral reaction among Trump’s supporters to the high-profile case.

The threats are made through a variety of channels, including the county’s customer service line, her office telephone, the magistrate court, as well as through text messages and other forms of communication, Willis said.

It's hard to accept that our nation is violent and mean-spirited to each other. I guess it's always been that way, but still hard to accept.

jmo

 

[Lilibet]

It's hard to accept that our nation is violent and mean-spirited to each other. I guess it's always been that way, but still hard to accept.

jmo

Personally, I don’t think it’s always been this mean-spirited and violent on this scale. I think it’s unprecedented.

JMO

 

[Inthedetails]

Personally, I don’t think it’s always been this mean-spirited and violent on this scale. I think it’s unprecedented.

JMO

When I first typed my post, that was my thought. But then I thought of attacks against African Americans in our lifetimes, bombings of houses of worship, assassinations of leaders like MLK. Hate-flled attacks on LGBTQ are nothing new.

Something about the mean-spirited atmosphere does feel new. I guess we were taught, true or not, that Americans valued the "mixed pot" of different people agreeing to respect democracy, and now it seems like the message is "other Americans are the enemy."

I am concerned about D.A. Willis and staff in Fulton County and I am VERY concerned that people will decline from pursuing careers in pubic service and we'll be left with the dregs.

jmo