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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Criminal charges filed against former U.S. President Donald Trump in Georgia state court include allegations that he violated an anti-organized crime law known as RICO that is more expansive than its federal counterpart. WHAT IS RICO? U.S. lawmakers passed the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in 1970 to …

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By Sarah N. Lynch, Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump again stands accused of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 election results to stay in power. But for the first time some allies and closest advisers also face criminal charges for their roles in the alleged scheme. Already charged by a federal grand …

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By Andy Sullivan, Jacqueline Thomsen and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump faced a new raft of felony charges on Tuesday after a Georgia grand jury used a law developed to take down organized crime gangs to charge the former U.S. president with trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The charges, brought late on …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Fulton County Georgia court clerk on Tuesday acknowledged the early release on its website of a document about former President Donald Trump being criminally charged, as Reuters reported on Monday after seeing the document on the court’s public website. A statement from the court clerk said the system was being tested before …

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(Reuters) – Hollywood’s striking writers and major studios have agreed to hold talks on Friday for the first time since their strike began over higher pay demands in May, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) said on Tuesday. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), reached out to the WGA and requested for …

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