Posted on 04/06/2024 8:16:41 PM PDT by bitt
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is being accused of illegally recording a phone call between her and one of the defense lawyers involved in her sprawling racketeering indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Christopher Kachouroff, who is representing Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd, is alleging Willis recorded a phone call between her and one of Kachouroff’s Maryland-based colleagues without his knowledge. That would be a violation of Maryland’s Wiretap Act, under which recording a private conversation without consent from both parties is punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
Kachouroff told CBS News Willis recorded a phone call with his colleague who was in Maryland at the time without their consent. Kachouroff said they found out about the recording because an anonymous citizen found it in an open records request and sent it to him.
Late Wednesday night, a conversation between Kachouroff and columnist Phil Holloway was posted by Floyd on his X (formerly known as Twitter) account:
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Georgia is a one-party consent state, and it’s unclear where Willis was located when the alleged phone call was made. Atlanta News First is reaching out to Willis’ office for comment.
Floyd, who once headed an organization called Black Voices for Trump, is one of 14 remaining co-defendants in Willis’ historic indictment of Trump.
Floyd, the only co-defendant who was actually jailed in racketeering indictment, is also requesting his trial be moved to Coffee County, arguing he cannot receive a fair trial in Fulton County. Coffee County is about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, and is where prosecutors allege voter information data was copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment to an unidentified lawyer associated with the Trump campaign.
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Lawyers and government people record ALL their calls regardless of the law. They just normally don’t usually get outed for it or use the call as evidence, not directly, anyway-. -m3
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She belongs in jail. Now.
Weaponizers of the law have forfeited their right to life, liberty and happiness
I was genuinely curious about that.
It seems to me that if two people are involved in a recording, each of them in separate states with disparate laws, then the state with the most restrictive laws would take precedence.
If you know more about this than I do, then I would respect your opinion on this.
The call between Trump and Raffensperger that Fanni is using as evidence was illegally recorded in Florida.
No problem, just get Trump.
The woman is a disgrace and needs to be removed and disbarred. Have the people of Fulton County had enough of her criminal behavior or will they vote her back in so she can continue. How many innocent people has she put in jail? She’s a menace to society.
Marxist Globalists Will Resort to Terror and Violence
American Thinker ^ | 7 Apr, 2024 | J.B. Shurk
Posted on 4/7/2024, 5:06:55 AM by MtnClimber
It is important to understand that censorship does not occur in a vacuum. It is a symptom of a worsening disease. It is an early indicator of the political repression to come. Like a canary in a coal mine, the criminalization of speech forewarns that State-sponsored terror and murder are not far away. First, certain words and thoughts are banned. Next, certain people are rounded up and imprisoned. Finally, certain “enemies of the State” are executed quite publicly. The imposition of fear supersedes the rule of law. Terrorism undergirds social order. Oppression replaces popular support.
What is happening in the West today is a concentrated push for global communism. We could bicker about precise definitions — whether we are under attack from Marxists, socialists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, or other “revolutionaries” — but the end goal is clear. A small group of global “elites” seek to use ideological and economic leverage to centralize political power and direct all human activity. They seek the abolition of private property. They seek absolute control over individual lives and local communities. They are rebuilding twentieth-century totalitarianism with the privacy-destroying surveillance technologies of the twenty-first century.
Most Western nations are working together to promote a public vision that achieves their private totalitarian goals. Governments do not care about “hate speech”; they are dedicated to seizing control of the press, punishing dissent, censoring political opposition, and regulating public debate. Governments do not care about “climate change”; they are dedicated to seizing control over all economic activity by first establishing a monopoly on available energy. Governments do not care about “systemic racism,” “social justice,” or “income inequality”; they are dedicated to maximizing social divisions and distorting the meaning of fundamental rights, so that they may undermine long-cherished personal liberties. Governments do not care about “gun violence”...
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Fani Willis doesn’t respect the law - she should have been a criminal - not a DA. Oh wait...
There's also the fact that she lied under oath:
Fani Willis is quite the criminal. She has no business prosecuting anyone. She should be in prison.
Then I hope the mainstream media will publish a fact check.
Cops from north Florida (a two party consent state) used to come up to south Georgia to make their calls to set up criminals. I think Fani should be disbarred for her many acts of wrongdoing, but she should be in the clear on this one.
The problem with the woman in the SoS’s office that tape recorded the Trump call to the Secretary of State was that she was in Florida when she recorded the call. She belongs in a Florida prison. Whether the criminally obtained recording should be admissible in a Georgia court is a closer question, but I’d argue it was inadmissible (unless someone was paying me to argue otherwise).
It sounds like if you are recording conversations, you better know the laws, for sure!
I have always admired James O’Keefe, as that is his specialty, and he makes damn sure he doesn’t run afoul of the law.
That said, I have received a bunch of emails from him saying “I am not suicidal...”
That’s usually a bad sign.
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Ex-Atlanta CFO pleads guilty in corruption case, faces 13 years
Married CFO took companion on trip; used public money w/ city credit card
Atlanta’s former chief financial officer pleaded guilty Monday in a federal case alleging he used tens of thousands of dollars in city funds for personal travel and to buy two military-grade machine guns. Jim Beard, also accused of cheating on his taxes, appeared before a federal judge in Atlanta. He pleaded guilty to one count of federal program theft and one count of obstructing IRS laws. He faces up to 13 years in prison.
Beard, 60, also agreed to pay an amount of restitution to be determined at sentencing, set for July 12. He has agreed to forfeit the machine guns. “The (theft) charge basically says that I took money or property from the city of Atlanta or some other entity somehow related to the city,” Beard said when asked by the judge to articulate what he was pleading guilty to. “The other charge is that I took tax deductions that I was not authorized to take.”
Prosecutor Trevor Wilmot said Beard used thousands of dollars in funds from Atlanta, which had received federal grants, to pay for the travel and firearms, which he kept for more than a year before abandoning them at the city’s police department. Beard’s travel expenses included a three-night stay in a Chicago hotel for his stepdaughter to attend a music festival and a trip with a companion to a jazz festival in New Orleans, Wilmot said.
In 2014, Beard falsely claimed on his annual income tax return form more than $33,500 in business losses tied to a personal consulting business that he had not disclosed to the city, Wilmot said. He said the claimed business losses included $12,000 in travel expenses, some of which had been paid by the city. Beard faces up to 10 years in prison on the theft charge and up to three years on the tax charge. He also faces up to $500,000 in fines. His attorney declined to comment after the plea hearing.
His case was part of a years-long City Hall corruption probe in Atlanta that brought multiple city officials and contractors before U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones. Eight defendants were sentenced to prison. Beard was the last defendant facing trial; it was to start in May. Beard was indicted in September 2020 on three counts of wire fraud, two counts of federal program theft and single counts of possessing a machine gun, falsifying an application or record and obstructing federal tax laws. Prosecutors dropped six of the charges as part of the plea deal.
The plea hearing was scheduled April 1, a few days after the judge denied Beard’s requests to exclude evidence that prosecutors obtained from the city of Atlanta; he also wanted to keep the machine guns out of the courtroom.
Beard also tried to suppress evidence about the dangerous nature of the guns, arguing that he had not been accused of using them. Prosecutors planned to explain at trial why federal law generally limits machine gun possession to military and law enforcement officers, and that such guns were not needed by the Atlanta Police Department, records show.
The judge also denied Beard’s attempt to suppress evidence of infidelity, finding relevance in the companions with whom Beard traveled at the city’s expense. Beard used his city-issued credit card for personal trips to Chicago, Louisiana and Washington, D.C., according to his indictment. He also used city funds on a Chicago hotel room so his stepdaughter could attend Lollapalooza in 2015 and 2016, prosecutors alleged.
Prosecutors claimed Beard used public money for a personal trip to The St. Regis Atlanta hotel in Buckhead, where he ordered hundreds of dollars worth of room upgrades, private dining and a “rose-petal turndown service” for him and his wife. Beard, who earned more than $200,000 annually as Atlanta’s CFO from 2011 to 2018, also paid for work trips on his city-issued credit card and then personally kept reimbursements he received from conference organizers, prosecutors alleged.
In 2019, Atlanta’s ethics division ordered Beard to pay more than $100,000 in fines and restitution. In April 2022, an insurance company paid the city about $84,000 as restitution for Beard’s improper use of his city-issued credit card, which had prompted an audit.
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