Fani Willis’ Special Prosecutor May Be Her Undoing in Trump Case
In her absence, Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis’ office was represented at Friday’s hearing in the Trump RICO case by the very best and the very worst on her team of prosecutors.
The best is John Floyd, a private attorney who is recognized as the leading Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization expert in Georgia and the rest of the country. Willis was just an assistant district attorney in 2013 when he served as a pro bono prosecutor and guided her in a RICO indictment of 12 Atlanta public school teachers for conspiring to fake standardized test results. The case helped get Willis elected district attorney in 2020.
In 2023, Willis enlisted Floyd to help assemble an even bigger RICO case, the one charging Donald Trump and 18 others with a conspiracy involving 161 overt acts in 7 states to overturn the 2020 election. Floyd stood to Willis’ right when she announced the indictment that could put Trump in a Georgia prison beyond the protection of a presidential pardon. Floyd has not said whether he is serving pro bono in this as well, but if not that, that would break with a precedent set by the other instances where he assisted RICO prosecution.