Husband Of ‘Steve Harvey Morning Show’ Co-Host Shirley Strawberry Indicted On RICO Charges

Earnest Williams, the husband of Steve Harvey Morning Show co-host and radio personality Shirley Strawberry, has been indicted under the State of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) on 39 charges. According to the charging documents, that marriage is also coming under scrutiny as the indictment claims it helped facilitate Williams’ alleged criminal activity. 



As WSBTV reports, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has become notorious for her office’s expansion of the state’s RICO act , said Williams’ activity stretches back to 2009. 



“He’s been conning people from 2009 to 2022. He would pretend to be a legitimate businessman , but he was stealing from people, in United States currency, vehicles, and really just taking advantage of people.”



Willis continued, discussing the marriage between Williams and Strawberry, “We believe she met a man, fell in love, and married him and the truth is at the time he was already married to someone else.”




This is a very interesting case. "The 39-count indictment claims Earnest fraudulently married popular radio personality #ShirleyStrawberry . Strawberry is a co-host on the renowned “Steve Harvey Morning Show.” “To create this impression of some level of success and used that to… pic.twitter.com/xMl86wxR7N — Jennifer Coffindaffer (@CoffindafferFBI) June 2, 2024





Fulton County District Attorney’s office has hit Shirley Strawberry’s estranged husband, Earnest (Ernesto) Williams with RICO charges.