What would this mean for a case that is currently 100% leveraged by four guilty pleas for misdemeanor offense regarding misrepresentation and false statements.
So not much has been said about how the Racketeering case against Trump and gang is going. Most of the attention has been on the antics and behavior of Willis and Wade and to what degree their relationship garners some sort of recusal or removal of one or the other or both.
But the most recent bombshell is that Willis and Wade may have "conspired" to provide false information on their legal filings in response to these allegations. To be clear, it certainly looks like Wade made false statements when he claimed the two had never actually cohabitated on any of occasion since they took up the case, even after admitting eventually that there is a romantic relationship. But now it looks like they both may have given a false sense of when the relationship started.
Now this would be a clearly significant distinction. If the County prosecutor hired a former colleague who she looked up to and then during the course of the investigation became romantically involved and decided to hide it, well that might be a small problem. But if she was already in the relationship with Wade when she made the decision to hire him as special counsel and has been hiding the relationship from the start, well that is an entirely different (and much larger) problem. What would be an even bigger problem is if the two of them conspired to provide the former story under oath, when the latter was actually the truth. That has significant problems, both legally and politically for them.
Why is this? Well because their entire racketeering case is tied almost exclusively to a variety of people making false statements or otherwise misrepresenting themselves. After you strip away all of the big strong allegations of "racketeering" you are left with charging people for being dishonest and turning being dishonest into a criminal enterprise where you can toss people in jail for 10 years because they set up a strategy meeting. In order of importance determined by the Georgia prosecutors, the case suggests the following:
Violation of Georgia RICO laws
False statements and writings to public officials. (Lawsuit filings).
Impersonating a public official (alternate vs fake electors).
Perjury or false statements during the investigation.
To other sets of charges unrelated to Donald Trump:
Accessing voting equipment in Coffee County under false pretense.
Harassing a Fulton County election worker.
The guilty pleas are split right now, with Scott Hall and Sidney Powell pleading guilty largely to misdemeanor charges regarding the Coffee County voting equipment as well as some broad conspiracy plea. Between the two of them, they were fined $13,700 and were given probation and community service. Two others (Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis) plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of either providing false documents, false statements or false writings. They were also fined $5,000 a piece and were given probation and community service.
To drill into this a little more, both Hall and Powell would likely plead the fifth under any questioning due to the current legal actions of Jack Smith and therefore not likely bolster the case against Trump. Both Chesebro and Ellis seem separated by several degrees from Donald Trump and likely would offer very little if anything to the larger RICO case. At this point, it seems that whatever argument that Willis and Wade want to make will have to be largely argued as a legal theory that false documents and misrepresentation should equate to a larger racketeering case.
Now how would it look for Willis and Wade when they are doing the exact same thing? If they were engaging in false statements, submitting false documents and misrepresenting themselves while prosecuting others for this same thing? Moreover, if the two of them decided together to suggest that the relationship started after the hiring of Wade as Special Counsel when they both knew otherwise, that would be conspiracy as well. This would be a more serious crime than anything they have secured over the past year and a half. They would be lucky at that point to escape with fines, probation and community service in any sort of fair world.
Now the one thing that should alarm both Willis and Wade is that while they rule the roost in the deep blue Fulton County, they would be hit at the State level for any of these charges. It would be up to the Republican A.G. Chris Carr to decide if charges should be brought, and they would be brought in a state court well outside the jurisdiction of Fulton County. Given the high-profile nature of this case and the criticism from many that Kemp and others provided very little assistance to Trump, there may be political pressure for Carr to take an actual stand and hold Democrats who break the law to account.
House republican Mike Gallagher of WI just announced that he would not seek reelection and would be returning to the private sector. He is one of three Republicans to vote against impeaching Mayorkas. What are the odds that someone offered him a cushy job to vote the way they wanted him to vote?