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Bucket, a rico bucket. a lot of states followed suit. georgia in 1980 enacted its own rico statute, but georgia went broader, jose. they added more predicate crimes to their rico statute. so more of those disparate acts by the various criminals could be swept into the prosecutive bucket. what sort of predicate acts do they have in georgia that they don't have under federal law? well, forgery, false statements, computer trespass, the types of things you see popping up in the indictment that was just recently unsealed in fulton county permits a georgia prosecutor to go broader in this case, in h...

Public officials to get them to do something to violate their oath of office. you have the facts surrounding the fake elector schemes, and that went into the various emails and things that support that. you have the computer trespass and the taking of personal information charges that happened in coffee county, and while having the indictment and it seems to be complex, any good prosecutor could narrow this down to common themes that a jury could understand and see how the pieces of the puzzle fit together to be able to establish the bigger picture of this overall rico indictment and conspirac...

Charges in jack smith's federal case, he would be able to pardon himself at a state level criminal conditions should he can secure the white house in 2024. back with me is katie phang. katie, much has been made in the last few days that fani willis may be pursuing rico charges, conspiracy charges, group charges. explain that to lay people like me. what is the significance of that? >> well, rico charges are ones that we think about maybe when we think about the mob. we think about john goddess we think about these big criminal charges money laundering that sort of thing. but there's another way...

Some of his confederates amounted to a criminal enterprise, but as gwen makes clear, there are more what's called predicate acts, those crimes, that conduct that they're engaing together. georgia law is more expansive. for instance, forgeries that were used on some of the fake electors or to your point, computer trespass, which means unlawful access to a computer and could easily encompass the conduct we heard about in coffee county where sensitive software was accessed. lots of different possibilities for how to bring all of this conduct together. and fani willis has gone on record, she's no ...

Rico charges in the state of georgia. racketeering, influence, and corruption organizations act, it was founded in 1970, but apparently, georgia's rico laws are a bit broader than usual. take us through what rico is like in this particular state and how it may differ as far as the kinds of charges trump could be indicted on. >> i'll let joyce speak to the federal rico statute, but the georgia statute is one of the broadest in the country. in that it lists about 43 different predicate crimes or the types of acts that would make up this pattern of racketeering activity that would be vioilative o...