Posted on 01/19/2024 7:15:01 PM PST by TigerClaws
This is a question for the legal experts out there and is based on a comment on a NEW YORK POST article. Here's the comment:
Emoney 4 hours ago
As an Attorney I can assure you this is not just unethical, it is illegal. The actual legal term for what they did is called "Theft of Honest Services". The larger liability they face is that for each case she brought against someone that Wade was paid for is another count. It could easily be charged as a RICO case. The systematic charging of crimes by the DA and the subsequent payments to Wade for working on those cases provided illegal benefits to them both. Hence the term, Theft of Honest Services. In essence it is illegal to charge someone with a crime so you or a boyfriend, spouse or relative, etc.. benefit from those charges in any way that would constitute a thing of value, monetarily or otherwise of value.
Comment was posted to this story:
https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/news/fani-willis-and-nathan-wade-traveled-together-amid-trump-probe/
It appears there are elements to honest services fraud:
To be guilty of violating the honest services fraud statute, you must owe a duty of honest service to someone and have deprived that person or entity of the duty owed by accepting a bribe or kickback from another person.
The federal fraud by mail or wire statutes, of which the honest services fraud statute is a part, provide for a fine or a maximum prison sentence of up to 20 years, or both. This prison sentence can be for each instance of mail or wire fraud, specifically each letter, each telephone call, and each email. Conceivably, prison sentences could total up to well over 100 years.
Willis overpaid her boyfriend Wade to prosecute third parties and she received kickbacks -- free trips, plane tickets, resorts, etc. -- using the stolen taxpayer funds.
But I've just been digging around on this. Any experts here?
Her election was a fraud, so every act is fraudulent.
In a just world, she would be locked up. We do not live in a just world.
pfl
Bfl
And we know Willis met with the White House to coordinate prosecution.
Well under the very liberal RICO statutes of Georgia, it seems that anyone involved in the conspiracy (meeting with Willis using the stolen funds) could be part of that conspiracy.
White House hatches a plot to convict Trump for baseless charges makes anyone who took this action part of the conspiracy. We have the crime (stolen public money) and we have the nexus — meeting at White House to coordinate.
Just need a Special Prosecutor and to flip someone who doesn’t want jail time.
Also means any convictions already gotten by the criminal enterprise should be tossed out for prosecutorial fraud.
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