Former New York Mayor and federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani, among the 18 co-defendants indicted along with former President Donald Trump for allegedly trying to subvert Georgia’s 2020 election results, told Newsmax on Tuesday the racketeering charge he and the other defendants are facing is bogus. And he would know more than anyone. Giuliani pioneered the use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act when he was in the Reagan Justice Department in the 1980s and as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor. He wielded the RICO statute successfully against Mafia...

The Department of Justice warns its prosecutors against using RICO, and the version on the books in Georgia is even more open to what the feds call ‘imaginative’ prosecutions. District Attorney Fani Willis’s indictment charges 19 defendants whose occupations have run the gamut from publicist for Kanye West to mayor of New York City to president of the United States. They all now have something in common — they are accused racketeers. Each and every defendant stands accused of participating in a “criminal enterprise” under Georgia’s RICO — Racketeer Influenced...

Rudy Giuliani — once the most feared federal prosecutor in America for using RICO laws to take down Mafia bigs — just got indicted under the same statutes in Georgia for alleged election-tampering. “You couldn’t invent such irony,” said Ken Frydman, who was campaign press secretary for Giuliani’s successful 1993 comeback campaign for New York City mayor, to The Post on Tuesday. Giuliani, 79, famously pioneered the use of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organization laws in landing convictions against Mafiosos and other crooks in the 1980s while a...

Almost 40 years ago, one of the most effective crusaders against organized crime in New York City urged state legislators to arm local prosecutors with laws to take down double-dealing politicians and the mob. “New York State is not a bad place to be, if you want to break the law,” then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudy Giuliani told attendees at an April 1986 luncheon, the Daily News reported. Calling for a package of reforms in the Empire State targeting corrupt power brokers in the criminal...

Rudy Giuliani, who was once hailed as “America’s mayor” as he led New York City through the 2001 terrorist attacks, has been indicted in what prosecutors say was a scheme to overturn the 2020 electoral votes in Georgia in favor of President Donald Trump. The indictment accuses Giuliani of being part of a band of Trump supporters that “knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump” by overturning votes by Georgia electors for Democrat Joseph Biden. Trump had depended on...

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and Trump attorney, is one of 19 people, including former President Donald Trump, facing charges in Georgia for their alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.According to charging documents, during several legislative hearings at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020, Giuliani promoted unsupported allegations of widespread election fraud in Georgia.

Former president Donald Trump was indicted in Georgia on Monday, along with 18 other people, in connection with their efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state during the 2020 presidential election. A total of 41 charges were brought against the 19 defendants, with Trump facing 13 counts. Violation of the Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act Return to menu The most sweeping count Trump faces in the indictment is the state version of a federal anti-racketeering statute that allows prosecutors to charge a number of people...

Former Georgia district attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming joins Here & Now's Scott Tong to analyze the legal strengths and weaknesses of the Fulton County District Attorney's indictment of former President Donald Trump.

The Monday night indictment gives Trump until next Friday to turn himself in for engaging in a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Tuesday that it was “kind of shocking” to see former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani indicted in Georgia. A grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump late Monday night for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. 18 others, including Trump allies Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark and Kenneth Chesebro, were indicted along with the former president. During Tuesday’s CNN segment, Honig attempted to classify the defendants. “Let’s break them down into categories. Trump is his own...