Ex-Chapman Law dean John Eastman, the architect of a plan to keep former President Donald Trump in office, was indicted along with Trump and 17 others in Fulton County, Georgia, on Monday, Aug. 14.
Eastman was part of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act count of an indictment issued by a grand jury and presented by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
The attorney was indicted on eight additional counts:
- Solicitation Of Violation Of Oath By Public Officer;
- Conspiracy To Commit Impersonating A Public Officer;
- Conspiracy To Commit Forgery In The First Degree;
- Conspiracy To Commit False Statements And Writings;
- Conspiracy To Commit Filing False Documents;
- Conspiracy To Commit Forgery In The First Degree;
- Conspiracy To Commit False Statements And Writings;
- Filing False Documents.
Willis said those indicted have until Aug. 25 to turn themselves in voluntarily.
Eastman was an unidentified, unindicted co-conspirator in a federal indictment against Trump issued by special counsel Jack Smith on Aug. 1. He clearly was one of the six who weren’t named based on specific quotes and actions attributed to co-conspirator 2 in the indictment.
He even acknowledged that the Southern California News Group put it all together in a post on his fundraising page for his legal defense.
“Lots of speculation swirling around today about whether I am one of the unindicted co-conspirators mentioned in the latest indictment handed down by the Biden administration against its most likely opponent in the next election, Donald Trump,” Eastman said in a post dated Aug. 2. “Given the level of detail in the indictment and quotations from my speeches and emails, much of which is already public, it was not hard to move from speculation to confirmation, as this story in the Los Angeles Daily News by Orange County Register reporter Teri Sforza does. At least they used a better photo than the OC Register has been using!”
This is a developing story.
