Explosive allegations have surfaced in Fulton County, Georgia, in a RICO suit filed by State Rep. Mesha Mainor against embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. (who is an attorney and also the son of civil rights activist and longtime Atlanta politician Marvin Arrington Sr.), and Fulton County itself.
Mainor ran for a seat on the Atlanta City Council in 2019, before she was ultimately elected to Georgia’s House as the representative for District 56 in 2020. In January 2019, during her first race, a businessman named Corwin Monson, whom she knew through mutual associates, volunteered to assist with her campaign. But the lawsuit alleges that by February of that year, she was forced to terminate Monson from his volunteer position “after witnessing his unruly, belligerent behavior.”
At that point, the complaint claims, Monson began to stalk Mainor, sitting “outside her home,” “showing up (uninvited) at campaign events” and following closely on her heels, joining Mainor’s church, and leaving repeated unwanted and, at times, threatening phone calls and voicemails — some of which he even turned into a song.
He allegedly claimed he was “in love” with Mainor and “even showed up at her home” with an engagement ring to propose marriage to her in front of her two daughters, although they had “never” engaged in any kind of “romantic relationship,” the complaint says.
The suit says that “in June 2019, Mr. Monson was cited for criminal trespass after coming to Mainor’s home and refusing to leave her property.” Then in August 2019, Mainor “filed a Temporary Protective Order (TPO) against Mr. Monson,” which was granted. Monson was then “arrested for violating the TPO” in September 2019 and again in September 2020. He was later indicted on two counts of aggravated stalking and faced “up to twenty years in prison.”
Monson then hired Commissioner Arrington, who is alleged to be a friend of Monson’s, as his defense attorney in October 2020. This is the same Arrington who sits on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, which appropriates the funds for Fulton County courts as well as the district attorney’s office, as Willis brings expensive RICO cases against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, another against rapper Young Thug, and also tries to clear an enormous backlog of cases caused by the Covid epidemic.
The complaint further alleges that “from November 2020 through October 2021, Defendant Commissioner Arrington unduly influenced the criminal proceedings of both the aggravated stalking cases on behalf of Mr. Monson.”
Arrington is said to have used his influence to broker a plea deal favorable to Monson with then-District Attorney Paul Howard, which would have allowed Monson to admit to a single misdemeanor stalking charge instead of a felony. Arrington is also alleged “on information and belief” to have had ex parte communications with Superior Court Judge Kimberley Adams and to be heard in the jailhouse recordings admitting to discussing the case with Willis before she took office in January 2021.
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Mainor accuses Willis and Arrington of a bribery scheme, alleging that the commissioner — who helps oversee the budget of the DA’s office — used his influence to get a cushy plea deal for a client who was accused of stalking Mainor and that Willis’ office played along. Mainor accuses both defendants as well as the Fulton County Ethics Board of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in O.C.G.A. §16-14-4. She also accuses Willis and Arrington, in their individual and official capacities, of “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
In an hour-long interview, Mainor and her attorney, Mario Williams, detailed her shocking and disturbing allegations, which are also explained in the complaint.