Among the 19 people charged in a sweeping RICO indictment in Georgia following a special investigation into potential 2020 election interference in the state are Trevian Kutti, the former publicist for R. Kelly and Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and former leader of the Black Voices of Trump group Willie Lewis Floyd III.
A grand jury returned a nearly 100-page indictment on Monday, alleging that former president Donald Trump and several of his associates and supporters made concerted efforts to altogether overturn his defeat in the state in 2020, hence the racketeering charges.
State prosecutors detailed numerous actions that Trump and his allies carried out to reverse his loss, including attempts to intimidate election workers, promote false election fraud claims, goad state lawmakers into establishing a fake slate of electoral college electors that favored Trump, and one bold attempt to access voting machines in Coffee County to steal data.
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“The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia’s legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result,” Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis said following the indictment’s release.
Every one of the 19 people named as defendants were charged with violating the Georgia RICO Act, including Kutti and Floyd, who is also known as Harrison Floyd.
Both were also charged with conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings and influencing witnesses. They went to some lengths to intimidate election worker Ruby Freeman and pressure her into falsely admitting that she stole votes and committed election fraud.
According to the indictment, Floyd allegedly recruited another…
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