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?
Sounds like barratry.
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Yes!
“It doesn’t matter if you’re rich, poor, Black, white, Democrat or Republican,” Willis, who is Black, told CNN last year. “If you violated the law, you’re going to be charged.”
This is so sleazy. From receipts
Cruise after Cruise. Plane flights.
Hundred of dollars in Liquor In Jamaica.
In between their flights, hotels, and Cruises - he donates to Campaigns of Judges.
What Trash!
His account started off Negative
She may also have violated the Georgia laws regarding public officials accepting/receiving gifts.
But the Georgia law didn’t require prosecutors to demonstrate an underlying criminal enterprise, only the commission of a range of illegal acts that furthered a single criminal goal. “Because of its breadth,” Eisen said, “Georgia prosecutors are more prone to utilize their criminal RICO provision as a vehicle for major cases.” It’s one of the best places in the country for deploying such a provision, he added. Volkan Topalli, a professor of criminology at Georgia State, told me that the state’s generous statute helps create a “whirlpool effect” in the prosecution of criminal conspiracies: “If you capture one person in the whirlpool, everyone else gets sucked in along with them.”
So any Biden official who met with Willis and Wade in furtherance of their criminal conspiracy to profit from prosecution Trump = RICO.
YES
Honest services fraud is defined in US Code Title 18 Section 1346
Honest services fraud is a federal crime, and it carries stiff penalties. If you are convicted of honest services fraud, you could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Can’t be a crime if it’s done by the left because it’s expected... For this bxtch and her lover it’s just reparations.
Do any of you think anyone in Meritless Garland’s (In)Justice Dept. is going to prosecute her for this? If so, why?
Hundred of dollars in Liquor In Jamaica.
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Well in all fairness he probably needed that.
They both had a Financial motive to Prosecute Trump
Sitting in sweaty Hotlanta with Negative bank accounts.
Stimulus Checks were what $600? These guys got $700,000 and Wade ran earlier Scams with Government funds.
Depending on the facts that play out, this could be a case of honest services fraud or it could be a simple case of misappropriating taxpayer funds. I think it has to be one or the other … or it could be both if it involves a state charge of misappropriating funds and a federal charge of honest services fraud on top of that.
Report: Big Fani Willis Gave Big Contracts to Alleged Lover’s Law Firm
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Big Fani attacking a black woman (wife)?
Does she expect black women to be Super Heroes all the time?
Come on now, you can’t expect two black people to live up to the same standards under the law as white people. they special.
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If anyone in authority pulls at the right thread, the whole corrupt GA apparatus could be exposed.
When Big Fani paid him, he lights up the Credit Card interspersed with charges to GA Judges Campaigns. Surely, Fani has had other Boyfriends.
Sounds logical to me, and prosecutorial misconduct as well.
How did either one of them have time to do anything else?
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