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Question: is the consent order already active prior to the arraignment?

Kendra wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 4:47 pm Haven't seen a link yet, but MSNBC says that there's really no negotiating being done with the lawyers. They come in and the DA says what the terms are.

realist wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 5:44 pm As an aside, I'm not sure those posts violate the conditions of release order. OMMV

Rudy Giuliani still hasn’t found a Georgia-based lawyer and is getting help from former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Fulton County election subversion case, to help him find legal representation, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

Kerik, who is not a lawyer, has agreed to assist Giuliani at no cost through the first phase of the Georgia prosecution — including bond negotiations with the Fulton County district attorney’s office and then surrendering to local authorities, the sources said.

CNN previously reported that Giuliani is facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions from numerous lawsuits related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election. In recent months, Giuliani traveled to Mar-a-Lago and appealed to Trump himself for assistance with his legal bills.

Kerik worked closely with Giuliani after the 2020 election to chase down supposed election fraud. Now, the former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction is working his law enforcement contacts to help Giuliani once again.

Giuliani would need a Georgia-based lawyer to sign off on a bond agreement that would set the terms for his release once he surrenders at the Fulton County jail. The 19 defendants in the case, including Giuliani and Trump, face a Friday deadline to turn themselves in after being indicted last week.

Though he is not charged in the sprawling indictment out of Fulton County, his attorney confirmed to CNN that Kerik is the unnamed individual listed in the indictment as co-conspirator 5.

According to the indictment, co-conspirator 5 took part in several meetings with lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Arizona — states Trump was contesting the 2020 election results — including at least one meeting at the White House.

Meadows and his defense team maintain that his case should be tried in federal court because Meadows worked for the Executive Branch when the forty-one felonies that Willis alleges in her criminal complaint were committed. But Willis disagrees, writing to Meadows' attorney Mark Moran at 6:25 a.m.:

Good Morning Mr. Moran, I am not granting any extensions. I gave 2 weeks for people to surrender themselves to the court. Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction. The two weeks was a tremendous courtesy. At 12:30 p.m. on Friday I shall file warrants in the system. My team has availability to meet to discuss reasonable consent bonds Wednesday and Thursday.

Kerik, who is not a lawyer, has agreed to assist Giuliani at no cost through the first phase of the Georgia prosecution

Laura Loomer, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again movement, has planned a rally coinciding with the former president's scheduled arrest and arraignment this Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia.

A grand jury voted to indict Trump on 13 felony counts, part of a total of 41 charges levied against the former president and 18 individuals in his orbit. The investigation into those individuals' alleged activity pertaining to the 2020 election and, specifically, the results in Georgia, culminated an approximate 2-and-a-half year investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Loomer previously organized a rally in June in Miami, Florida, when Trump was arraigned on 37 total counts in relation to allegedly retaining classified documents containing national defense information. Trump pleaded not guilty in that and other cases including alleged hush money payments made prior to the 2016 election, and his role surrounding the January 6 Capitol riots.

tek wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:19 am

Kerik, who is not a lawyer, has agreed to assist Giuliani at no cost through the first phase of the Georgia prosecution

Worth every penny!

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:27 am Trump Supporters Plan Protest Outside Fulton County Courthouse

Laura Loomer...

Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:56 am

neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:27 am Trump Supporters Plan Protest Outside Fulton County Courthouse

Laura Loomer...

They will be there in their half-dozens. HALF-DOZENS!

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:52 am

District Attorney Fani Willis has until 3 p.m. ET today to file court submissions responding to requests by Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark – both defendants in her election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and several of his associates – that they be allowed to avoid arrest in her prosecution.

The dispute is playing out in federal court in Atlanta. Both Meadows and Clark are seeking to move the state court criminal case against them to federal court, where they argue that the charges against them should be dismissed. As part of that effort, they each filed requests for emergency court orders that would prevent Willis from seeking their arrest if they did not turn themselves in by the Friday noon deadline for self-surrender that Willis has set for the defendants in the case.

Meadows, who has a hearing scheduled for Monday in his effort to move the proceedings, had asked for Willis to extend the deadline for turning himself in until at least next week, after the hearing, according to court filings. But she rejected that request, writing in an email to his attorneys that come 12:30 p.m. ET Friday, she would file a warrant in the system for him if he had not self-surrendered.