It was reported on Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) had handed out “target” letters to prominent Republican figures, warning them that they could be charged in connection with a conspiracy to nominate an alternative slate of pro-Donald Trump electors in Georgia.
State Senator Burt Jones (R), who was Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) running mate for lieutenant governor, David Shafer (head of the Georgia Republican Party), and State Senator Brandon Beach (both Republicans) received letters, as reported (R).
The story claims that on December 14, 2020, Jones and Shafer were present at a conference in which 16 Georgia Republicans illegally appointed themselves as alternate electors. Robert Sinners, the Trump campaign’s Election Day organizer in Georgia, allegedly wrote them an email before the meeting urging them to preserve “total confidentiality” and deny press questions about their gathering, suggesting that the meeting was planned to be hidden from public view.
We reached out to Jones, Beach, and the Georgia GOP, but none of them got back to us right away.
The office of the district attorney had no comment either.
Trump’s recorded phone call pushing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to “find 11,780 votes” is only one piece of evidence that the district attorney’s probe has stretched beyond, according to former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner.
Epner told Law&Crime, “The target letters imply that the prospective prosecutions are broader than the call to Sec. of State Raffensberger and may lead to indictments of many in the near future.”
Though Epner, a former New Jersey prosecutor and current partner at Rottenberg Lipman Rich PC, acknowledged over the phone that Georgia law is not his specialty, he noted that target letters typically try to sway the receivers to change their minds.
In most cases, Epner explained, prosecutors send “target letters” to potential witnesses to gauge their interest in coming in to help before formal charges are filed.
According to an interview Yahoo, Willis said she was thinking about making a potentially controversial move by asking Trump to testify before the special grand jury under oath, but Epner pointed out that Trump had a history of opposing subpoenas to force his testimony.
Not even a simple plea, he thought, could make a difference.
Many people, Epner speculates, have sought Trump’s testimony, although the latter is difficult to secure. Therefore, “just asking for his testimony, absent a subpoena, is not likely to yield his testimony.”
Ivana Trump’s death on Thursday forced the postponement of depositions scheduled for Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and his daughter Ivanka Trump in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) probe for Friday morning. Even though James’s office said a new date would be set “as soon as feasible,” none had been set as of the time of publication.
Once Trump and his family tried and failed to have the subpoena quashed, they appealed all the way to the highest court in New York, where they also lost, setting the original date for July 15.
If charges were to be brought against those who received the target letter, Epner said he anticipates prosecutors would highlight the privacy of the December 14 meeting.
“The fact that at least some of the people who were involved were indicating that it needed to be needed to be kept secret is fairly strong evidence of consciousness of guilt,” he said. “They knew that what they were doing, if it were discovered, would be a problem. They may not have known it would be a criminal problem. They may have thought that it would simply be a problem as far as their ability to effectuate their scheme. But I would expect that if these people are prosecuted, that that would be brought forward as evidence that they knew at the time that what they were doing was illegal.”
Former federal prosecutor for the Northern District of Florida Michael Harwin underlined that a “target” letter is not something to be taken lightly.
This is a severe matter,” Harwin emphasized to Law&Crime. If a prosecutor or grand jury has “strong evidence” that an individual has committed a crime, the DOJ guideline classifies that person as a “target.” Putative defendant status has been assigned to them.
In their discussions, Harwin and Epner emphasized that prosecutors commonly distinguish “targets” from a simple “witness” — someone who merely knows about illegal behavior — or a “subject,” which merely suggests the prospect of a criminal prosecution.
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Somebody's searching for PORK and her name is Fani Willis. No kin to Willis on Different strokes, but she ain't playing around in the "Whatchutalkin' bout sense". We wouldn't want to be in her cross hairs. Would you? she is methodically and patiently pulling the outta layers off of a scheme so deep that it feels like the sun is gonna shine. Like the saying what's in the dark comes to the light. Trump may be getting struck by lightning after Fani Willis is done with this investigation. She's been known to be a Tuffy across the board. No one gets special treatment. You disobey the law she ain't the one you wanna see. As for TRUMP, it's another problem of a long list of self-inflicted wounds the "ADULT TOMMY KILL DAY" of the century has to deal with. A kid that she seems determined to SPANK. BEND OVER DONNY, FANI IS COMING!
Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr, who was instrumental in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, has passed away.
Starr passed away on Tuesday at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas… owing to postoperative problems… that’s what his relatives say.
Starr led the massive Whitewater investigation of the Clintons in the 1990s and is famous for this. The investigation started with the Clintons’ real estate dealings and widened to encompass the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
Starr’s career as an attorney was highly successful… It was Reagan who put him forward for a position on the Supreme Court of the United States. District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Later becoming U.S. Secretary of State under former President George H.W. Bush. State Department’s top lawyer.
Starr was a United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia and argued 36 cases before the Supreme Court. He worked as an associate attorney general under William French Smith and as a law clerk for Warren E. Burger.
Active in the field of higher learning, during his 25 years of teaching, he has held positions at New York University, George Mason University, Pepperdine University, Chapman University, and Baylor University. In addition to his role as President and Chancellor of Baylor, Starr formerly served as Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law.
Starr attended Sam Houston High School and Trinity University to receive his Bachelor of Arts after he was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He earned an M.P.S. in political science from Brown and a J.D. from Duke.
Ken’s children, Randall, Carolyn, and Cynthia, and his wife of 52 years, Alice Mendell Starr, survive him.
In a statement released in Starr’s son’s honor, the family expressed their “deep sadness at the loss of our dear and loving Father and Grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first. The love, energy, endearing sense of humor, and fun-loving interest Dad exhibited to each of us was truly special, and we cherish the many wonderful memories we were able to experience with him.”
The visitation will be held on September 23 in Waco, and the burial will take place in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
A 76-year-old Starr in some circles of politics passed away.
CHERYENNE, Wyoming. Following a crushing defeat in the Wyoming Republican primary to an opponent sponsored by former President Donald Trump, Representative Liz Cheney became increasingly outspoken on Wednesday about considering a 2024 presidential candidacy.
The three-term congressman stated on NBC that Trump poses ““a very grave threat and risk to our republic,” adding that she plans to join “a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats, and independents” to stop him.
She wouldn’t confirm or deny whether or not she was considering a presidential run, but she did admit, “it’s something that I’m thinking about.”
The primary results, especially her loss by more than 35 points, highlighted the swift rightward movement within the Republican Party. Trump’s populist appeal and, more than anything else, his rejection of loss in 2020 have transformed the Republican Party, which was once dominated by national security-focused, business-friendly conservatives like her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The claims have been rejected by federal and state election officials as well as Trump’s own attorney general and judges he selected, turning Cheney from an occasional critic of the former president into the strongest voice within the GOP warning that he constitutes a threat to democratic principles. She alluded to her political future by mentioning that she is the ranking Republican on the House panel looking into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.
“I have said since Jan. 6 that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office — and I mean it,” she said during her concession speech on Tuesday.
Cheney addressed a small group of supporters, including her father, on the edge of a large field framed by mountains and bales of hay on Wednesday morning, and she described her primary loss from Tuesday night as the beginning of a new chapter in her political career.
“Our work is far from over,” she said, evoking Abraham Lincoln, who also lost congressional elections before ascending to the presidency and preserving the union.
Celebratory Hageman supporters, many of whom were dressed in cowboy boots, hats, and blue jeans, congregated for a massive outdoor rodeo and Western cultural celebration in Cheyenne, some 400 miles (645 kilometers) to the east of Cheney’s concession address.
Hageman, an attorney for the ranching business who came in third in a previous run for governor, expressed his gratitude to President Trump for recognizing the importance of Wyoming’s lone congressional representative.
She courted Trump’s supporters by echoing his conspiracy theories and saying the 2020 election was “rigged,” which is demonstrably wrong.
As Trump’s largest political triumph of the primary season, Cheney’s defeat was cause for celebration among Trump and his staff. The former president has described the findings as “a complete condemnation” of the January 6 committee.
He said of Cheney, “Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others,” he wrote on his social media platform. “Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you WYOMING!”
Meanwhile, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, another major Republican critic of Trump, advanced from her primary in Alaska, which also took place on Tuesday. In the contest for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, Sarah Palin, the GOP’s 2008 vice presidential contender and a fervent admirer of Trump, was also headed for the general election in November.
The focus, though, was on Cheney, whose defeat just two years ago seemed impossible. She comes from a prestigious political family in Wyoming, as her father was the state’s vice president. Moreover, she was the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, making her a powerful figure in party politics and policy and ensuring that she had a solidly conservative voting record.
Now that Cheney has reached the end of her third and final term in Congress, she will be compelled to leave office in January. No one will be expecting her to exit Capitol Hill quietly.
She will remain in charge of the congressional group until its dissolution at the end of the year, when the probe into the attack on January 6 will have concluded. She has sworn to do all in her power to combat Trump’s influence in her party, and she is seriously considering a run for the White House in 2024, either as a Republican or as an independent.
On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said he personally approved the search warrant that was used to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Garland also disclosed that the Department of Justice has submitted a motion to unseal an FBI property receipt and a search warrant.
“Federal law, long-standing department rules, and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further details as to the basis of the search at this time. There are, however, certain points I want you to know,” Garland said.
“First, I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. Second, the department does not take such decisions lightly.”
Given Trump’s “public confirmation of the search,” the circumstances surrounding the search, and the considerable public interest in this subject, Garland said they decided to move to unseal the materials.
The warrant and the FBI’s receipt were “given to the former president’s attorney who was on-site during the search,” Garland added.
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