Anonymous ID: ed0c37 May 30, 2024, 10:14 a.m. No.20938860   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9052 >>9263 >>9387

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.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/30/lawsuit-rico-queen-fani-willis-violated-the-same-law-she-weaponized-against-trump-republicans/

 

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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.

Anonymous ID: ed0c37 May 30, 2024, 10:58 a.m. No.20939140   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9189

The jury in New York City’s trial against former President Donald Trump is continuing deliberations on Thursday for a second day after failing to reach a verdict on the first day of deliberations.

Jurors have now, over the course of Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, sent several notes out to Judge Juan Merchan seeking clarity on some elements of testimony they heard over the course of the trial and some of Merchan’s jury instructions that he read to them on Wednesday morning.

To acquit or convict Trump, all 12 jurors would need to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the charges. What’s actually happening in the deliberation room is a mystery, but these notes and other developments over the course of this week may provide clues as to where the jury is headed or not. If all 12 jurors cannot agree, the result could be a hung jury. Jurors are set to continue their deliberations all day Thursday and if no verdict is reached, then again on Friday.

Trump, meanwhile, is forced to stay at the courthouse all day instead of campaigning as the jury deliberates. He is there again right now.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/30/trump-trial-livewire-jury-deliberations-continue-second-day-jurors-seek-clarity-testimony-instructions/

Anonymous ID: ed0c37 May 30, 2024, 11:07 a.m. No.20939189   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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If the five-woman, seven-man jury doesn't find Donald Trump guilty of the alleged bookkeeping mistakes, it will be a miracle. This is because the 55-page final jury instructions that attorneys saw only moments before the judge read them in court on Wednesday is a "directed verdict" to Trump's guilt. That's it. That's why an uncharacteristically somber Trump announced that even "Mother Teresa couldn't beat these charges."

The most bizarre and worrisome thing about these instructions to the jury is that the judge gave jurors an a la carte menu of three choices — three crimes on which jurors may decide for themselves, individually, not unanimously what they think were Trump's motivations for making 34 bookkeeping notations. All Trump's complicity involves, and I'm not making this up, is if he may have been motivated to win the 2016 election, which means they can conclude he's guilty of a federal or state campaign law, or that he violated a tax law, for which there was no evidence offered.

The only thing they must agree unanimously on are the 34 charged indictments. Prosecutors have hidden the ball on these predicate crime options since they were announced. But one of Alvin Bragg's theories was alluded to in his accompanying letter to the charges. And it's why, the Trump team tried to put on expert witness Brad Smith, who was the former head of the Federal Elections Commission. Smith was to explain why Trump's legal payments to Michael Cohen weren't campaign expenses and why he, as the chairman of the FEC, turned down the request to jack up Trump on charges for them.

In a gasp-inducing decision, Merchan said he would not allow Smith to do anything other than verify definitions of words without offering expert opinion on campaign law. The Trump team decided not to bother. It should have because it may have gotten some leading questions in there, and who knows what would have happened.

Merchan said he didn't want to "confuse" the jurors because he's the arbiter of the law. Merchan is not an expert on campaign law. The decision not to put on Smith and take their chances might be the defense's biggest blunder.

And then in closing arguments, the prosecution was allowed multiple times to argue as fact that Donald Trump broke election law, a breathtaking assertion that had not been proven in court. They were also allowed under overruled objections to argue that Michael Cohen's plea deal which included copping to election violations could be tied back to Trump. The judge assured defense attorneys in advance that this plea deal could not be tied to Trump in court. And then he let prosecutors argue this in court.

 

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/05/30/the-judges-road-map-to-guilty-in-the-trump-case-n4929378