Explosive allegations have surfaced in Fulton County, Georgia, in a RICO suit filed by State Rep. Mesha Mainor against embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. (who is an attorney and also the son of civil rights activist and longtime Atlanta politician Marvin Arrington Sr.), and Fulton County itself.
Mainor accuses Willis and Arrington of a bribery scheme, alleging that the commissioner — who helps oversee the budget of the DA’s office — used his influence to get a cushy plea deal for a client who was accused of stalking Mainor and that Willis’ office played along. Mainor accuses both defendants as well as the Fulton County Ethics Board of violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in O.C.G.A. §16-14-4. She also accuses Willis and Arrington, in their individual and official capacities, of “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
In an hour-long interview, Mainor and her attorney, Mario Williams, detailed her shocking and disturbing allegations, which are also explained in the complaint.
A Summary of the Complaint
Mainor ran for a seat on the Atlanta City Council in 2019, before she was ultimately elected to Georgia’s House as the representative for District 56 in 2020. In January 2019, during her first race, a businessman named Corwin Monson, whom she knew through mutual associates, volunteered to assist with her campaign. But the lawsuit alleges that by February of that year, she was forced to terminate Monson from his volunteer position “after witnessing his
