{"id":2022914,"date":"2023-09-06T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-five-other-co-defendants-plead-not-guilty-in-georgia-racketeering-indictment-reports\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T00:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:11:20","slug":"mark-meadows-five-other-co-defendants-plead-not-guilty-in-georgia-racketeering-indictment-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-five-other-co-defendants-plead-not-guilty-in-georgia-racketeering-indictment-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Meadows and five other co-defendants have pleaded not guilty in a Georgia racketeering indictment, according to reports."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-meadows-five-other-co-defendants-plead-not-guilty-in-georgia-racketeering-indictment-reports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022914&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former White House Chief of \u200bStaff and\u2064 Co-Defendants Plead Not\u200d Guilty in Georgia Racketeering\u2063 Indictment<\/h2>\n<p>In a dramatic turn of\u2064 events, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and five other co-defendants named\u200c in the\u2062 sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-trump-staffer-mark-meadows-asks-judge-to-block-arrest-in-georgia-election-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia racketeering indictment<\/a> have pleaded not guilty and waived their in-person \u2064arraignment\u200b set for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI fully understand the nature of the\u2062 offenses charged and my right\u200c to appear at arraignment,\u201d Meadows \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/4187466-mark-meadows-pleads-not-guilty-in-georgia-election-interference-case-waives-arraignment\/\">wrote<\/a> in the court filing \u2062reported by The Hill. \u200b\u201cUnderstanding my rights, I do hereby freely and voluntarily\u200b waive\u2063 my right \u2063to be present at my arraignment \u2064on \u200cthe Indictment and my right to have it read\u200c to me in open court.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meadows and\u2064 18 \u2064other co-defendants \u200dfind themselves \u200dnamed in former \u2064President Donald Trump\u2019s\u200b fourth indictment following\u2062 a \u200ccriminal investigation\u2062 into the alleged efforts to \u200coverturn Georgia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-couric-trump-supporters-need-to-be-deprogrammed-video\/\" title=\"Katie Couric: Trump Supporters Need to Be \u201cDeprogrammed\u201d (VIDEO)\">2020 presidential election results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney\u2062 Fani Willis has \u200bpursued charges against these individuals under\u200c Georgia\u2019s Racketeer\u200b Influenced and Corrupt Organizations \u2062(RICO) Act. \u200bThis\u2064 act allows prosecutors to connect various crimes committed\u200c by multiple defendants and argue that they were working together toward a criminal goal, thus forming a &#8220;criminal enterprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has\u2062 broadly denied any \u200bwrongdoing, claims \u200cthat politically motivated\u200b forces \u2064are targeting him in \u2062a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; \u2064propagated by the\u2064 Biden administration and \u2063Democrat prosecutors in New York and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Meadows in pleading not \u2062guilty are attorney John Eastman, ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, Shawn Still, David Shafer (the former \u200bGeorgia GOP chair), and Cathy Latham (a member of the Georgia\u200b Republican Party\u2019s \u2062executive\u2062 committee), \u2062according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/mark-meadows-5-defendants-georgia-election-case-plead\/story?id=102928940\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Clark\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manhattan-da-wont-charge-donald-trump-personally-trump-lawyer-claims\/\" title=\"Manhattan DA Won\u2019t Charge Donald Trump Personally, Trump Lawyer Claims\">attorney reportedly<\/a> \u200bsaid in a filing that the charges against his client \u200dwere\u200c an \u201cunconstitutional attempt, as to \u2064Mr. Clark,\u2064 to penetrate into the \u2063sanctums of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-meadows-five-other-co-defendants-plead-not-guilty-in-georgia-racketeering-indictment-reports\/\" title=\"Mark Meadows and five other co-defendants have pleaded not guilty in a Georgia racketeering indictment, according to reports.\">superior federal\u200b government\u2019<\/a>s \u2062Justice\u200b Department, as well\u2063 as of the Office of the \u200dPresident of \u2063the United \u200dStates at the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indictment is also an\u200c unconstitutional affront to \u2064the\u2062 powers \u2063of the President, who is the sole head of\u200c the unitary \u2063executive \u200dbranch,\u201d Clark\u2019s filing states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1693504018745000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1RMMjCvCBOBYdpkw5O_njE\">CLICK HERE \u2064TO GET\u2063 THE\u200b DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Both \u2064Clark\u2062 and\u200c Meadows\u200d are among the\u2062 five defendants requesting \u2064to\u200b move their cases \u2062from state\u200b court into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">federal court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All \u200dbut one of the 19 \u200ddefendants, including former President Donald \u200dTrump, named in the indictment have now\u2063 pleaded not guilty\u200d and waived their in-person \u2062arraignment.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate \u2064that former Coffee County elections director\u200b Misty Hampton has yet to enter \u200da plea.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee \u200dhas \u200cset September 6 as the\u2062 date for all 19 defendants \u200dto be arraigned on charges and \u200denter their pleas in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and five co-defendants, accused in a Georgia racketeering case, pleaded not guilty and waived their in-person arraignment. 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