ATLANTA: Prosecutors in Georgia’s Fulton County have given amnesty to at least eight persons being investigated for conspiring to rig Georgia’s vote in the 2020 presidential election, according to a court document filed on Friday.
This summer, former President Donald Trump and others may be prosecuted with crimes connected to influencing the 2020 race, according to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Even though Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia and the right to all 16 of the state’s electoral college votes, attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow represented 10 of the 16 alleged phoney electors who may have represented up to 16 fake electors for Trump.
Debrow said in a court document submitted on Friday that the prosecution “made actual, written offers of immunity to these eight delegates in April 2023 but not to the remaining two.” This resulted in the non-immunized clients hiring new counsel, according to Debrow’s petition.
Debrow stated that “all eight of the electors who were offered immunity accepted.” Those eight may testify against any accused as they would be granted immunity.”
A spokesperson for Willis did not instantly respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Willis’ investigation got underway shortly after a taped phone call from January 2021 in which Trump requested that the senior election official in Georgia “find” enough ballots to overturn Biden’s victory.
Trump, who is running for president in the Republican party in 2024, has denied wrongdoing and charged that Willis, an elected Democrat, targeted him for political reasons.
When New York prosecutors accused Trump on March 30, he became the first former US president to face criminal charges for allegedly falsifying company records pertaining to payments made to a porn actress who claimed to have had an affair with him.
He is also under investigation by the US Justice Department for his handling of sensitive information after leaving the White House and his attempts to rig the 2020 election.
