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The Georgia Indictment of Former President

Trump: A Snapshot



August 16, 2023

On August 14, 2023, a Georgia grand jury returned a multi-count indictment charging former President
Donald Trump  and others working on his behalf with engaging in an enterprise designed to overturn the
outcome of the 2020 presidential election in violation of the state racketeering statute, among other
things.
The statute, reminiscent in many ways of federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO)
provisions, proscribes conducting an enterprise's activities through a pattern of underlying (predicate)
offenses. The list of predicate crimes in the state statute includes both violent and non-violent offenses,
and defendants convicted of violating the statute may be imprisoned for between five and twenty years.
Defendants may also be fined the greater of $25,000 or three times the gain associated with the offense.
Mr. Trump is charged under thirteen of the indictment's forty-one counts. The indictment alleges that he:
      Conspired and endeavored to conduct and participate in an enterprise through a pattern of
       predicate offenses in violation of the racketeering statute (count 1);
      Solicited the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to call for a special
       legislative session for the unlawful appointment of presidential electors (count 5);
      Conspired to caused individuals to unlawfully present themselves as presidential electors
       (count 9);
      Conspired to make a false certification document regarding presidential electors (count
        11);
      Conspired to make use of the false certification with knowledge of its falsity (count 13);
      Conspired to file the false certification of presidential electors in federal district court
       (count 15);
      Conspired to make a forged document submitted to federal and state officials purporting
       to fill an electoral college vacancy (count 17);
      Conspired to use the false document concerning filling an electoral college vacancy with
       knowledge  of its falsity (count 19);


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