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Common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in fulton county, georgia, especially in other states. the scope of this, not just the number of people, but the number of places where it goes, i think, for a lot of folks, when they thought about a georgia indictment, i tailored to what happened in georgia. tell us what you see here and why it works in the rico indictment. the rico statute does give prosecutors broad powers to go after groups of people who commit specified types of crimes together. it s not simply limited to organized crime. although, that was its original and intended use. the statute, federal and georgia, doesn t just say street crime. ....
And january 6. do you think she did a good job laying it all out? i think she did. i think to get to joyce s earlier point, rico really allowed them the prosecutors to cast a very wide net. you see that in this more than overt acts listed here. overt acts aren t specifically or necessarily crimes, they re just things that were done to help the overall alleged criminal conspiracy. and so what you see in this indictment is that there are just tons and tons of overt acts. everything up to and including the speeches that happened on the morning of january 6th. so, what she s really doing is creating a much larger, longer story of january 6th and the efforts to undo that election, compared to the federal indictment, which is a much tighter and shorter story. and can you just define overt act for us, for anybody who might be joining us now? right, so, you know, i used to cover many years ago mob trials and classic overt act ....
This indictment. we got a statement from kenneth chesebro. saying that he was asked by the trump campaign to provide advice on issues related to constitutional and election law. each of the alleged overt acts that are attributed to mr. chesbro relate to his work as an attorney. that s the main part of that statement. i suspect that s going to be something that we repeatedly hear as we get more statements from the people who were also listed in the indictment. laura, let s talk about the size, the scope of this indictment. i think that was a surprise we are talking about 19 different people. i did a quick check. at least nine are lawyers. as i m reading through, i m thinking, this isn t bread crumbs. there are emails, text messages, ....
yes, they would be helpful. as a prosecutor, obviously, donald trump is the main name in this. right? there are other individuals who have big names. his is the biggest. when you talk to someone on a lower rung of a conspiracy or you want to ask them to testify and become a witness, ultimately, you are looking to see if they can connect the dots. some of the acts may be easy to prove when you say donald trump did this, giuliani did this, but the indictment says knowing and willful. you need evidence to show it was willfully done. when you speak with these co-defendants that you are trying to flip, if that happens, you want to hear facts and evidence and conversations that took place that would allow you to prove what we call state of mind. mr. james, some of the former ....