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County, georgia. and elsewhere. to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j. trump. to these the presidential term of office beginning on january 20th 21. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia. and elsewhere. to block the county of the votes of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners of georgia's 2020 general election. as you examine the indictment, you will see acts that are identified as overt acts. and those that are identified as predicate acts, sometimes called x of racketeering activity. overt acts are not necessarily cri...

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...

That he took. >> vaughn hillyard, great to have you, thank you so much. i want to play part of what fani willis said last night. she was talking about the 161 overt acts that make up a huge part of this indictment. take a listen. >> as you examine the indictment, you will see acts that are identified as overt acts, and those that are identified as predicate acts. sometimes called acts of racketeering activity. overt acts are not necessarily crimes under georgia law in isolation. but are alleged to be acts taken in furtherance of the conspiracy. >> so this morning, elena said they're covered by...

The physical indictment document itself. but one thing to recognize is georgia's rico statute does not include crimes under the election code, title 21. so things like conspiracy to commit election fraud or solicitation or violation of an oath of office or interference with elections. those and other crimes that are not listed in the rico statute could be included separately in an indictment. i think it's also important to note that forgery is one of the predicate acts under rico, and so potentially if d.a. fani willis is looking to include the fake electors scheme, that could also be brought ...

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 ...