Welcome To Findoutville (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #137 )

This week: 

• updates from the Fulton County racketeering case – 
• the numerous speedy trial filings, motions to sever, and motions to remove to federal court – 
• the curious case of Harrison Floyd; 
• the defendants who haven’t waived their arraignments and pled not guilty will be in court on Wednesday; 
• an update on Peter Navarro whose trial begins this week; 
• plus Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss winning a default judgment in their defamation case against Rudy Giuliani.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-jatwt-1aae9549

The Public Docket (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack: A Special Counsel podcast, Episode #39)

This week, 

• in Fulton County, all 19 racketeering defendants have been booked; 
• the DoJ responded to Trump’s April 2026 trial date request, and an update on three key cases awaiting DC Circuit rulings. 
• Meanwhile, in Cannonland, Florida, de Oliveira is subject to the deadlines in the court’s scheduling order; 
• the DoJ entered a detailed filing responding to Woodward and Cannon’s questions about Woodward’s conflict of interest and the use of grand juries in two jurisdictions. 
• Plus a couple of listener questions and more!

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-qtn26-1a7912de

Fulton County charges Donald Trump with racketeering, other felonies -- a Georgia election law expert explains 5 key things to know

Racketeering is different from conspiracy charges…

https://theconversation.com/fulton-county-charges-donald-trump-with-racketeering-other-felonies-a-georgia-election-law-expert-explains-5-key-things-to-know-211582

If the Shoe Fits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlNE0i_Yhy8

The Growing Georgia Trump election investigation, explained - Vox

Georgia's RICO law has a broad definition of what constitutes racketeering behavior: "knowingly and willfully making a false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of state government" to carry out a crime, as Clark Cunningham, a professor at Georgia State University's College of Law told the Guardian in January. "If you do that, you've committed a racketeering activity. If you attempt to do that, if you solicit someone else to do it or you coerce someone else to do it — it's all considered racketeering under Georgia law."…

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/6/4/23748503/georgia-trump-investigation-rico

Georgia probe of Trump broadens to activities in other states - The Washington Post

Trump may have hurt himself, however, in his appearance last month at a town hall broadcast by CNN, during which he explained that he called Raffensperger to tell him, "You owe me votes because the election was rigged." 

Willis could offer the statement as evidence of Trump's intent for Raffensperger to switch votes, several legal experts said. "Subjects of criminal investigation aren't usually reckless enough to go on national television and admit their corrupt intent," Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University, wrote on Twitter after the appearance. "But Donald Trump just handed Fani Willis a new piece of evidence and tied a bow on it."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/02/trump-georgia-election-investigation-fulton-county/

Big oil is behind conspiracy to deceive public, first climate racketeering lawsuit says

The same racketeering legislation used to bring down mob bosses, motorcycle gangs, football executives and international fraudsters is to be tested against oil and coal companies who are accused of conspiring to deceive the public over the climate crisis...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/big-oil-is-behind-conspiracy-to-deceive-public-first-climate-racketeering-lawsuit-says

Debt Company Makes Sheriffs Rich by Jailing the Poor, Lawsuit Claims -- The Daily Beast

Ira Wilkins should be a free man. Wilkins has served his time in an Oklahoma prison and is clear for release. But a private court fee collections agency is keeping him behind bars. Wilkins is the lead plaintiff in a new racketeering lawsuit against the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association, every sheriff's department in the state, and the court fee collections firm Aberdeen Enterprizes II. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/debt-company-makes-sheriffs-rich-by-jailing-the-poor-lawsuit-claims

Arizona Republicans Want To Prosecute Protesters The Same Way They Do Terrorists (The Huffington Post)

The Republican-led Arizona state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would permit the government to seize protesters' assets and prosecute them under a racketeering law designed to target organized crime. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arizona-bill-protesters-racketeering_us_58af3692e4b060480e05e81d?

Reminder: Donald Trump Due in Court After Election Day on Child Rape and Racketeering Charges

Donald Trump would like voters to focus on the FBI’s continuing investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server — but instead questions about his own legal troubles have been raised again.

Author Salman Rushdie reminded voters that Trump will stand trial later this month in a racketeering lawsuit and then again next month as part of a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims the Republican presidential nominee raped her when she was 13 years old....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/reminder-donald-trump-due-court-after-election-day-child-rape-and-racketeering-charges