Former White House Chief of Staff throughout the Trump administration Mark Meadows speaks during a forum titled House Rules and Process Changes for the 118th Congress at FreedowmWorks headquarters on November 14, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was booked on the Fulton County Jail Thursday, records show, together with his bond set at $100,000 within the Georgia criminal case accusing ex-President Donald Trump and his allies of illegally attempting to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
Meadows is charged with racketeering and soliciting a violation of an oath by a public officer.
Jeffrey Clark, a pro-Trump former Department of Justice lawyer, had his bond set at $100,000 as well Thursday, court filings show. Clark faces the identical racketeering charge, together with one count of attempting to commit false statements and writings.
The consent bond orders in Fulton County Superior Court got here hours before Trump was expected to travel to Atlanta to give up on his own charges in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ sprawling indictment.
Meadows’ bond sheet forbids him from speaking with another co-defendant or witness concerning the facts of the case. It also prohibits any effort to intimidate witnesses or co-defendants “or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.”
Trump, Meadows and Clark are three of the 19 co-defendants in Willis’ case. Trump’s bond is ready at $200,000. The previous president is charged with 13 counts of crimes including racketeering, criminal conspiracy and filing false documents.
Meadows and Clark weren’t indicted within the special counsel Jack Smith’s federal election interference probe against Trump, a separate case that centers on most of the same events featured within the Georgia indictment.
All 19 co-defendants charged in Georgia face a Friday deadline to give up at Fulton County jail. Nine of them, including pro-Trump lawyers John Eastman and Sidney Powell, and former Recent York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, have already been booked and released.
Meadows is looking for to maneuver the case from state court to federal court. Earlier this week, he asked a federal judge to quickly take up the case before Friday’s deadline in order that he can avoid being arrested.
The judge denied that request, in addition to one other proposal for him to issue an order blocking Willis from arresting Meadows. Willis has denied Meadows’ request for an extension of his arrest deadline.
One in every of Meadows’ charges is expounded to his participation in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call wherein Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to undo Biden’s win within the state.
Willis on Thursday subpoenaed Raffensperger to look at a Monday morning hearing centered on Meadows’ effort to maneuver the election case to federal court. Raffensperger’s office declined CNBC’s request for comment.
Clark’s charge pertains to his efforts to challenge President Joe Biden’s electoral victory by drafting a document in December 2020 that falsely claimed the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that will have impacted the end result of the election” in key states. Clark tried to get other DOJ officials to log off that December 2020 memo and send it to officials in Georgia.
Trump, who’s indicted in 4 lively criminal cases, has pushed to delay his trials until after the 2024 presidential election.
But Kenneth Chesebro, one other co-defendant within the Georgia case, filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court on Wednesday demanding a speedy trial.
In a court filing Thursday, Willis asked a judge to start the trial on Oct. 23.
