Georgia has laid it out in a so-called RICO charge. It’s the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation Act, a prosecuting tool aimed at targeting mafia crime.
As prosecutors would have it, election interference in Georgia came with a soundtrack.
It’s the one that goes: “Fellas, I need 11,000 more votes, give me a break,” and it’s at the heart of this case.
They were Donald Trump’s words in a recorded phone call between Donald Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on 2 January 2021. Trump was asking the official for votes he didn’t have in an election he didn’t win, and floated the idea of criminal prosecution if he didn’t get them.
Prosecutors believe they have the recording of a criminal committing the crime – of a defeated president ringing round with claims of a rigged election and putting pressure on state officials to help him steal the result.
Whatever it was, it prompted the investigation into election interference in the state of Georgia.
