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Trump and RICO

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  Trump-News.org The Trump News Review – trump-news.org | The News And Times Bing: Trump and RICO RICO Charges: What To Know About The Organized Crime Law Used ... - Forbes August 15, 2023 What is RICO, the law at the heart of Trump's Georgia criminal case ... August 15, 2023 Trump faces a RICO charge in Georgia. What is the Racketeer Influenced ... August 15, 2023 In charging Trump with RICO crimes, Georgia prosecutors reach for a ... August 15, 2023 What is RICO and why are prosecutors using it against Trump? August 15, 2023 Who Are Trump’s Co-Defendants in the Georgia RICO Case? August 15, 2023 Trump, 18 allies indicted on RICO charges by Georgia grand jury: Full ... August 15, 2023 Trump and Allies in Georgia Face RICO Charges. Here’s What That Means ... August 15, 2023 RICO Charge: Meaning, History of Racketeering Law That Trump Is Charged ... August 15, 2023 How Georgia’s RICO law is central to charges against Trump August 15, 2023 “Trump and RICO” – Google News What is RICO,

Opinion | Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is His Most Dangerous posted at 21:50:07 UTC via nytimes.com

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  Opinion | Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is His Most Dangerous posted at 21:50:07 UTC   via   nytimes.com SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Aug. 15, 2023, 3:38 p.m. ET The Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Ga.Credit...Joe Raedle/Getty Images By  David French The best way to think about  Georgia’s sprawling indictment  against Donald Trump and his allies is that it is a case about lies. It’s about lying, conspiring to lie and attempting to coax, coerce and cajole others into lying. Whereas the attorney general of Michigan just  brought a case  narrowly focused on the alleged fake electors in her state (Trump is not a defendant in that one), and the special counsel Jack Smith brought an indictment  narrowly focused  on the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has brought a case about the entire conspiracy, from start to finish, and targeted each person subject to her jurisdiction for each crime committed in her jurisdiction. In other wor

Ex-FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Working for Russian Billionaire

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  Ex-FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Working for Russian Billionaire posted at 21:29:48 UTC   via   bnnbloomberg.ca (Bloomberg) -- A former senior official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate US sanctions and launder money while working for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Charles McGonigal, 55, had been the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York, where he oversaw efforts to root out foreign spies and led investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. But after retiring in 2018, McGonigal said he went to work for the billionaire, digging up background on a Deripaska rival, Norilsk Nickel President Vladimir Potanin. “I never intended to hurt the United States, the FBI or my friends and loved ones,” McGonigal told US District Judge Jennifer H. Rearden in New York on Tuesday, his voice breaking from emotion. His sentencing was scheduled for Dec. 14 and he faces as long as five years in prison. McGon