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  With Racketeering Charges, Georgia Prosecutor Aims to ‘Tell the Whole Story’ posted at 14:20:35 UTC   via   nytimes.com SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Prosecutors have found racketeering laws to be powerful tools in targeting not only foot soldiers in a criminal enterprise, but also high-level decision makers. Former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in support of Georgia’s Republican senators before their runoff election in January 2021.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Aug. 15, 2023Updated 8:19 a.m. ET For more than 50 years, prosecutors have relied on a powerful tool to take down people as varied as mafia capos, street gangs like the  Crips  and the  Bloods , and  pharmaceutical executives  accused of fueling the opioid crisis. Now a prosecutor in Georgia is using the state’s version of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, to go after former President Donald J. Trump, who along with 18 of hi...

Donald Trump braced for fourth criminal indictment – US politics live posted at 12:48:14 UTC   via   theguardian.com 8m ago Georgia prosecutors prepare to face off with Donald Trump Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Good morning, US politics blog readers.  The Fulton county district attorney investigating  Donald Trump ’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia is  expected to seek multiple charges  against more than a dozen defendants, including the former president, this week. The timeline for when the district attorney,  Fani Willis,  would present evidence to a grand jury came into sharper relief over the weekend after prosecutors summoned the former  Georgia  lieutenant governor,  Geoff Duncan,  and reporter  George Chidi  to testify on Tuesday. The presentation is  expected to take two days , to a grand jury that meets Mondays and Tuesdays. In Georgia, it is...