Chicago publicist, Orland Park pastor charged

Two people from the Chicago area are among the 19 defendants named in the Georgia indictment accusing former President Donald Trump and others of “criminal enterprise” illegally attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Fulton County prosecutors named Chicago publicist Trevian Kutti, 53, and Orland Park church pastor the Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee, 70, in the indictment, charging them for alleged racketeering, influencing witnesses and conspiring to commit false statements.

Kutti, who has worked as a publicist for musicians R. Kelly and Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, first made local headlines in 2003 to defend a Gold Coast store’s window display showing rolled-up dollar bills perched alongside mounds of white powder and razor blades — an apparent nod to cocaine use.

In 2009, another storefront got her into the paper, this time in a display featuring a $2,000 gown with a bold “plunge to the rear” at the Old Town boutique she owned. Neighbors…