Jorge Vela, Criminal Defense Attorney & Former Federal Prosecutor
Vela Law Criminal Defense - Jorge joins Dawn LIVE! Jorge expands on his federal perspective on the Trump Fani decision, as well as the crisis at the border in an election year. Jorge expands on the below prompt, before veering off into other topics with Dawn.
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must step aside from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump or remove the special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship before the case can proceed, the judge overseeing it ruled Friday.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said he did not conclude that Willis’ relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade amounted to a conflict of interest. However, he said, it created an “appearance of impropriety” that infected the prosecution team...
The sprawling indictment charges Trump and more than a dozen other defendants with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO. The case uses a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers and other aides of a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in power after he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden. Read more.
Jorge Vela is uniqely qualified to discuss this. He is a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor based in Austin.
He served as a felony prosecutor in Laredo, Texas where he prosecuted violent crimes, including aggravated robbery, aggravated assault, intoxicated manslaughter, aggravated kidnapping, murder, and solicitation of capital murder.
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