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How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump

How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump
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How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump
Long before the FBI began investigating Donald Trump 's hoarding of classified documents or Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special prosecutor to probe the former president, Fani Willis was at work.Just one month after Trump's infamous January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia's secretary of state could overturn his election loss, the Fulton County district attorney announced she was looking into possible illegal 바카라 게임 웹사이트attempts to influence바카라 게임 웹사이트 the results in what has become one of America's premier political battlegrounds. As she built her case, Willis called a parade of high-profile witnesses before a special grand jury, presiding over an investigation that was so public it seemed she would become the first prosecutor in U.S. history to indict a former president.She instead became the third person to levy criminal charges against Trump, leapfrogged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. But the indictment Willis brought late Monday against Trump and 18 associates was the most sprawling case detailing the former president's desperate efforts to remain in power after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.바카라 게임 웹사이트Their indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia바카라 게임 웹사이트s legal process for election challenges the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia바카라 게임 웹사이트s presidential election result,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Willis said in announcing the charges.Video above: Get the Facts: Georgia election interferenceTrump stepped up his criticism of Willis in advance of the charges, calling the 52-year-old Black woman 바카라 게임 웹사이트a young woman, a young racist in Atlanta.바카라 게임 웹사이트Willis has long declined to comment on Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s insults. But with his campaign running a vicious attack ad last week, she emailed her staff to warn that it included 바카라 게임 웹사이트derogatory and false information바카라 게임 웹사이트 about her and instructed them not to react publicly.바카라 게임 웹사이트You may not comment in any way on the ad or any of the negativity that may be expressed against me, your colleagues, this office in coming days, weeks or months,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she wrote. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We have no personal feelings against those we investigate or prosecute and we should not express any. This is business, it will never be personal.바카라 게임 웹사이트Willis has led plenty of prominent prosecutions, but nothing that compares to indicting a former president, particularly one who fights his perceived enemies with the intensity of Trump. She used Georgia바카라 게임 웹사이트s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, law to charge not only the former president but also a collection of his allies for alleged participation in a wide-ranging conspiracy.Some people who end up facing charges may challenge the indictment based on the fact that they were compelled to testify before the special grand jury in an investigation in which they ended up being a target. In the federal system, prosecutors are required to seek approval from senior-level officials before issuing a subpoena to a target and, in the interest of fairness, are urged to pursue alternatives to compelling a target's testimony. But the special grand jury was an investigative tool and lacked the power to indict.Willis spent most of her career as an assistant district attorney in Fulton County and is known by both her colleagues and defense attorneys to be a tremendously talented litigator with a gift for connecting with juries. A few years after leaving that office, she returned as its leader in January 2021 after winning a bitter Democratic primary fight to oust her predecessor and former mentor.Video above: Explaining Donald Trump's Georgia indictmentWillis was raised mostly in Washington by her father, a defense attorney who she has said was a Black Panther. She graduated from Howard University and from Emory University School of Law four years later, choosing to stay on in Atlanta to practice law.바카라 게임 웹사이트She바카라 게임 웹사이트s really a tough-on-crime liberal, which is kind of a rare bird these days, but I think that바카라 게임 웹사이트s her brand,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis.Some critics say she overuses gang and RICO laws, unnecessarily complicating cases that could otherwise be tried in less time with fewer resources, just to get the enhanced penalties those statutes carry. Devin Franklin, an attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights who spent 12 years in the Fulton County public defender바카라 게임 웹사이트s office before leaving last year, said using those laws drives a 바카라 게임 웹사이트narrative of violence in Atlanta that바카라 게임 웹사이트s not true, that's not necessarily reflected in the data바카라 게임 웹사이트 and has a tendency to 바카라 게임 웹사이트sensationalize the cases.바카라 게임 웹사이트It is also taking too long for people to be indicted after they바카라 게임 웹사이트ve been arrested, he said, leaving them languishing in terrible conditions at the county jail, which is currently under federal investigation. People are left 바카라 게임 웹사이트in a position where they can바카라 게임 웹사이트t force a trial, they can바카라 게임 웹사이트t plead out and if they have a bond they can바카라 게임 웹사이트t pay, they바카라 게임 웹사이트re effectively stuck in the Fulton County system with no legitimate recourse,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Franklin said. To illustrate the problem, he pointed to the death earlier this month of a 40-year-old man who was arrested on a second-degree burglary charge in October and was being held on $3,000 bond.Of the 3,571 people in custody in Fulton County on Friday, 1,683, or 47%, had not yet been indicted. Franklin suggested that Willis바카라 게임 웹사이트 office should move more quickly to indict people facing serious charges. For lower-level felony charges, he said, her office could proceed by "accusation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 which doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t require a formal indictment.Trump has recently called Atlanta a 바카라 게임 웹사이트crime-ridden바카라 게임 웹사이트 city where 바카라 게임 웹사이트people are afraid to walk outside.바카라 게임 웹사이트 While it바카라 게임 웹사이트s true that Atlanta, like most other major cities, saw a spike in violent crime in recent years, those levels have improved significantly. As of Aug. 5, homicides were down 25%, rapes had dropped by 56% and aggravated assaults had decreased by 22% compared with the same time last year, according to Atlanta police data.Willis has said she likes the RICO statute because it allows prosecutors to paint a more complete picture of the alleged illegal activity.Her most prominent case as an assistant district attorney was a RICO prosecution against a group of Atlanta public school educators accused in a scheme to inflate students바카라 게임 웹사이트 standardized test scores. After a seven-month trial, a jury in April 2015 convicted 11 of them on the racketeering charge.Since becoming district attorney, she has brought several RICO cases, some against well-known rappers. The first of those cases to go to trial has been tied up in jury selection since January and is expected to last six to nine months once testimony gets underway.Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia NAACP and an Atlanta defense attorney who represented an educator in the test cheating case, said he doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t always agree with Willis바카라 게임 웹사이트 use of the RICO law but does think it바카라 게임 웹사이트s appropriate 바카라 게임 웹사이트if there was a scheme to interfere in the election and numerous actors were involved.바카라 게임 웹사이트 But he thinks the investigation has dragged on far too long and that an unwieldy RICO indictment that scoops up too many people risks causing an undue strain on the overburdened court system.바카라 게임 웹사이트Charge the top individuals that did it," he said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Maybe pass out immunity deals to everyone else to testify. Let바카라 게임 웹사이트s get the top 10, then let바카라 게임 웹사이트s move forward.바카라 게임 웹사이트Willis has urged patience from the beginning of her investigation and is fond of saying she doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t try 바카라 게임 웹사이트skinny cases,바카라 게임 웹사이트 meaning she likes to have lots of evidence. And Rucker, her former colleague, said he바카라 게임 웹사이트s not surprised the investigation has stretched on so long, saying the two of them worked every day for almost two years to prepare for the school cheating case.While she바카라 게임 웹사이트s likely to let her hand-picked group of prosecutors handle the trial, there바카라 게임 웹사이트s no question she바카라 게임 웹사이트s calling the shots, Rucker said. With a case of this magnitude, she would have required those on her team to gather and digest an enormous amount of information and would have grilled them to make sure there were no holes, he said.바카라 게임 웹사이트When she says stuff like, 바카라 게임 웹사이트We바카라 게임 웹사이트re ready to go,바카라 게임 웹사이트 that바카라 게임 웹사이트s not being braggadocious,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Rucker said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s her saying pretty much to anybody who바카라 게임 웹사이트s interested, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Look, we바카라 게임 웹사이트re ready.바카라 게임 웹사이트바카라 게임 웹사이트

Long before the FBI began investigating Donald Trump 's hoarding of classified documents or Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special prosecutor to probe the former president, Fani Willis was at work.

Just one month after Trump's infamous January 2021 phone call to suggest Georgia's secretary of state could overturn his election loss, the Fulton County district attorney announced she was looking into possible illegal 바카라 게임 웹사이트attempts to influence바카라 게임 웹사이트 the results in what has become one of America's premier political battlegrounds. As she built her case, Willis called a parade of high-profile witnesses before a special grand jury, presiding over an investigation that was so public it seemed she would become the first prosecutor in U.S. history to indict a former president.

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She instead became the third person to levy criminal charges against Trump, leapfrogged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith. But the indictment Willis brought late Monday against Trump and 18 associates was the most sprawling case detailing the former president's desperate efforts to remain in power after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

바카라 게임 웹사이트Their indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia바카라 게임 웹사이트s legal process for election challenges the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia바카라 게임 웹사이트s presidential election result,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Willis said in announcing the charges.

Video above: Get the Facts: Georgia election interference

Trump stepped up his criticism of Willis in advance of the charges, calling the 52-year-old Black woman 바카라 게임 웹사이트a young woman, a young racist in Atlanta.바카라 게임 웹사이트

Willis has long declined to comment on Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s insults. But with his campaign running a vicious attack ad last week, she emailed her staff to warn that it included 바카라 게임 웹사이트derogatory and false information바카라 게임 웹사이트 about her and instructed them not to react publicly.

바카라 게임 웹사이트You may not comment in any way on the ad or any of the negativity that may be expressed against me, your colleagues, this office in coming days, weeks or months,바카라 게임 웹사이트 she wrote. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We have no personal feelings against those we investigate or prosecute and we should not express any. This is business, it will never be personal.바카라 게임 웹사이트

Willis has led plenty of prominent prosecutions, but nothing that compares to indicting a former president, particularly one who fights his perceived enemies with the intensity of Trump. She used Georgia바카라 게임 웹사이트s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, law to charge not only the former president but also a collection of his allies for alleged participation in a wide-ranging conspiracy.

Some people who end up facing charges may challenge the indictment based on the fact that they were compelled to testify before the special grand jury in an investigation in which they ended up being a target. In the federal system, prosecutors are required to seek approval from senior-level officials before issuing a subpoena to a target and, in the interest of fairness, are urged to pursue alternatives to compelling a target's testimony. But the special grand jury was an investigative tool and lacked the power to indict.

Willis spent most of her career as an assistant district attorney in Fulton County and is known by both her colleagues and defense attorneys to be a tremendously talented litigator with a gift for connecting with juries. A few years after leaving that office, she returned as its leader in January 2021 after winning a bitter Democratic primary fight to oust her predecessor and former mentor.

Video above: Explaining Donald Trump's Georgia indictment

Willis was raised mostly in Washington by her father, a defense attorney who she has said was a Black Panther. She graduated from Howard University and from Emory University School of Law four years later, choosing to stay on in Atlanta to practice law.

바카라 게임 웹사이트She바카라 게임 웹사이트s really a tough-on-crime liberal, which is kind of a rare bird these days, but I think that바카라 게임 웹사이트s her brand,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis.

Some critics say she overuses gang and RICO laws, unnecessarily complicating cases that could otherwise be tried in less time with fewer resources, just to get the enhanced penalties those statutes carry. Devin Franklin, an attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights who spent 12 years in the Fulton County public defender바카라 게임 웹사이트s office before leaving last year, said using those laws drives a 바카라 게임 웹사이트narrative of violence in Atlanta that바카라 게임 웹사이트s not true, that's not necessarily reflected in the data바카라 게임 웹사이트 and has a tendency to 바카라 게임 웹사이트sensationalize the cases.바카라 게임 웹사이트

It is also taking too long for people to be indicted after they바카라 게임 웹사이트ve been arrested, he said, leaving them languishing in terrible conditions at the county jail, which is currently under federal investigation. People are left 바카라 게임 웹사이트in a position where they can바카라 게임 웹사이트t force a trial, they can바카라 게임 웹사이트t plead out and if they have a bond they can바카라 게임 웹사이트t pay, they바카라 게임 웹사이트re effectively stuck in the Fulton County system with no legitimate recourse,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Franklin said. To illustrate the problem, he pointed to the death earlier this month of a 40-year-old man who was arrested on a second-degree burglary charge in October and was being held on $3,000 bond.

Of the 3,571 people in custody in Fulton County on Friday, 1,683, or 47%, had not yet been indicted. Franklin suggested that Willis바카라 게임 웹사이트 office should move more quickly to indict people facing serious charges. For lower-level felony charges, he said, her office could proceed by "accusation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 which doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t require a formal indictment.

Trump has recently called Atlanta a 바카라 게임 웹사이트crime-ridden바카라 게임 웹사이트 city where 바카라 게임 웹사이트people are afraid to walk outside.바카라 게임 웹사이트 While it바카라 게임 웹사이트s true that Atlanta, like most other major cities, saw a spike in violent crime in recent years, those levels have improved significantly. As of Aug. 5, homicides were down 25%, rapes had dropped by 56% and aggravated assaults had decreased by 22% compared with the same time last year, according to .

Willis has said she likes the RICO statute because it allows prosecutors to paint a more complete picture of the alleged illegal activity.

Her most prominent case as an assistant district attorney was a RICO prosecution against a group of Atlanta public school educators accused in a scheme to inflate students바카라 게임 웹사이트 standardized test scores. After a seven-month trial, a jury in April 2015 convicted 11 of them on the racketeering charge.

Since becoming district attorney, she has brought several RICO cases, some against well-known rappers. The first of those cases to go to trial has been tied up in jury selection since January and is expected to last six to nine months once testimony gets underway.

Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia NAACP and an Atlanta defense attorney who represented an educator in the test cheating case, said he doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t always agree with Willis바카라 게임 웹사이트 use of the RICO law but does think it바카라 게임 웹사이트s appropriate 바카라 게임 웹사이트if there was a scheme to interfere in the election and numerous actors were involved.바카라 게임 웹사이트 But he thinks the investigation has dragged on far too long and that an unwieldy RICO indictment that scoops up too many people risks causing an undue strain on the overburdened court system.

바카라 게임 웹사이트Charge the top individuals that did it," he said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Maybe pass out immunity deals to everyone else to testify. Let바카라 게임 웹사이트s get the top 10, then let바카라 게임 웹사이트s move forward.바카라 게임 웹사이트

Willis has urged patience from the beginning of her investigation and is fond of saying she doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t try 바카라 게임 웹사이트skinny cases,바카라 게임 웹사이트 meaning she likes to have lots of evidence. And Rucker, her former colleague, said he바카라 게임 웹사이트s not surprised the investigation has stretched on so long, saying the two of them worked every day for almost two years to prepare for the school cheating case.

While she바카라 게임 웹사이트s likely to let her hand-picked group of prosecutors handle the trial, there바카라 게임 웹사이트s no question she바카라 게임 웹사이트s calling the shots, Rucker said. With a case of this magnitude, she would have required those on her team to gather and digest an enormous amount of information and would have grilled them to make sure there were no holes, he said.

바카라 게임 웹사이트When she says stuff like, 바카라 게임 웹사이트We바카라 게임 웹사이트re ready to go,바카라 게임 웹사이트 that바카라 게임 웹사이트s not being braggadocious,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Rucker said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s her saying pretty much to anybody who바카라 게임 웹사이트s interested, 바카라 게임 웹사이트Look, we바카라 게임 웹사이트re ready.바카라 게임 웹사이트바카라 게임 웹사이트