States and Federal officials bringing indictments against Trump and other Republicans for voter fraud

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Georgia prosecutor fights Trump effort to remove her from election probe

 

An Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia asked a judge Monday to dismiss a motion by Trump’s attorneys seeking to throw out evidence gathered by a special-purpose grand jury, claiming the former president is trying to block an investigation before “any charges are filed.”

 

The prosecution filing was in response to a March 20 motion by Trump’s Georgia-based legal team that sought to block the release of a final report issued in January by the special grand jury and “preclude the use of any evidence derived” from its investigation, claiming it was “conducted under an unconstitutional statute” and “through an illegal and unconstitutional process” that violated Trump’s due-process rights.

 

In a response filed late Monday afternoon, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) said the motion — which was joined last month by Cathy Latham, a Georgia Republican and alternate Trump elector who has been named as a target in the investigation — was “procedurally flawed and advance arguments that lack merit.”

 

Willis wrote in the filing that Trump and Latham “are not content to follow the ordinary course of the law. They seek to ‘restrain’ a criminal investigation before any charges are filed or even sought; they ask that the judicial system place them above and apart from the common administration of the criminal law; and they do so by raising arguments for which they have no standing, or which they failed to timely join, or which they have already failed, or which have no basis in law at all.”

 

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Trump 2020 lawyer indicated he may be target of Fulton County probe, court docs say

 

Ray Smith III, a lawyer who represented President Donald Trump in litigation aimed at reversing Georgia’s 2020 election results, has indicated he may be a target of Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis’ criminal probe.

 

Smith’s attorney, Bruce Morris, characterized Smith as “something between a target and witness” in Willis’ nearly completed investigation, according to documents filed Wednesday in a federal civil lawsuit in Washington D.C. That characterization was revealed by lawyers for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit — two former Georgia election workers who are suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation.

 

According to the newly filed documents, the former election workers — Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — want to subpoena and depose Smith as part of their lawsuit against Giuliani. But on May 1, a lawyer for Smith told Freeman and Moss’ attorneys that he would seek to block the subpoena.

 

“Mr. Morris indicated that they would file a motion to quash because Mr. Smith was ‘something between a target and witness’ in the Fulton County District Attorney’s investigation of the 2020 election,” wrote John Langford, an attorney for Freeman and Moss.

 

It’s the latest indication of the wide net Willis is casting as she nears the expected indictment phase of her investigation.

 

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Georgia probe of Trump broadens to activities in other states

 

An Atlanta-area investigation of alleged election interference by former president Donald Trump and his allies has broadened to include activities in Washington, D.C., and several other states, according to two people with knowledge of the probe — a fresh sign that prosecutors may be building a sprawling case under Georgia’s racketeering laws.

 

Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) launched an investigation more than two years ago to examine efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his narrow 2020 defeat in Georgia. Along the way, she has signaled publicly that she may use Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute to allege that these efforts amounted to a far-reaching criminal scheme.

 

In recent days, Willis has sought information related to the Trump campaign hiring two firms to find voter fraud across the United States and then burying their findings when they did not find it, allegations that reach beyond Georgia’s borders, said the two individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the investigation. At least one of the firms has been subpoenaed by Fulton County investigators.

 

Willis’s investigation is separate from the one at the Department of Justice being led by special counsel Jack Smith, but the two probes have covered some of the same ground. Willis has said she plans to make a charging decision this summer, and she has indicated that such an announcement could come in early August.

 

Among Willis’s latest areas of scrutiny is the Trump campaign’s expenditure of more than $1 million on two firms to study whether electoral fraud occurred in the 2020 election, the two individuals said. The Post first reported earlier this year that the work was carried out in the final weeks of 2020, and the campaign never released the findings because the firms, Simpatico Software Systems and Berkeley Research Group, disputed many of Trump’s theories and could not offer any proof that he was the rightful winner of the election.

 

In recent days, Willis’s office has asked both firms for information — not only about Georgia, but about other states as well. Trump contested the 2020 election result in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

 

Ken Block, the CEO of Simpatico Software Systems, declined to comment on what he has turned over to investigators. A lawyer for the Berkeley Research Group also declined to comment. A spokesman for Willis declined to comment on the investigation. Lawyers for Trump also declined to comment.

 

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Georgia grand jury handling potential indictments in Trump 2020 probe is sworn in

 

The Georgia grand jury that is expected to consider charges against former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies for trying to overturn the 2020 election was sworn in Tuesday after a three-hour selection process in Atlanta.

 

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, launched the investigation in early 2021 after Trump tried to overturn his defeat in the Peach State with a public and private pressure campaign targeting Georgia election officials, the governor, lawmakers and prosecutors.

 

A special grand jury previously heard testimony from 75 witnesses, including Trump advisers, his former attorneys, White House aides, and Georgia officials. That panel issued a redacted report with charging recommendations, which will soon be weighed by the new grand jury, potentially as soon as next month.

 

Two grand jury panels were picked Tuesday at the Fulton County Superior Court. Each panel includes 26 participants: 23 grand jurors and three alternates. These grand juries will meet separately, twice a week, for two months.

 

At the start, they will both handle ordinary criminal cases from Atlanta and nearby suburbs. But one of these panels is expected to be tasked later this summer with deciding whether to approve indictments in the Trump investigation.

 

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I think someone's getting a little nervous...

 

Trump asks Georgia courts to disqualify DA Fani Willis and quash report on 2020 election

 

Former President Donald Trump asked two courts in Georgia to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from investigating him and quash the special grand jury report that recommended criminal charges in Willis’ 2020 election interference probe.

 

The requests came in court documents filed overnight in Georgia Supreme Court and Fulton County Superior Court. In both, Trump’s attorneys argued that Willis “seeks an indictment” against Trump based on evidence that was “unlawfully obtained.”

 

The filings came three days after Fulton County Superior Court empaneled two grand juries that could soon decide whether to charge Trump and his allies over their efforts to reverse his loss to President Joe Biden in Georgia’s 2020 election.

 

Willis has indicated that indictments related to the probe could come in August.

 

These newly seated grand juries are separate from the special purpose grand jury which heard evidence and testimony from dozens of witnesses last year. That grand jury submitted a final report, most of which remained under seal as of Friday.

 

The special grand jury did not have the power to indict, and Willis was not required to follow its recommendations. The two recently empaneled grand juries in Fulton County do have the power to indict, however.

 

They will meet twice a week throughout the term to hear numerous cases and decide whether to return a “true bill” of indictment or issue a “no bill” and drop the case.

 

Attorneys for Trump noted in their petition to the Georgia Supreme Court that they had asked Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in March to quash the special grand jury report and disqualify Willis.

 

McBurney has not yet issued a ruling, and Trump’s attorneys worried that an indictment could arrive before he delivers one. But, they argued that this would leave Trump “struggling to disentangle himself from a net that was not lawfully cast.”

 

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Breaking news:

 

"ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court shot down Donald Trump's attempt to derail the 2020 Fulton County election investigation in a unanimous dismissal Monday.

The justices wrote that Trump failed to prove the circumstances were extraordinary enough to warrant their interference. The court also ruled that the former president's legal team didn't provide the 'facts or law' necessary to mandate the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis."

 

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/ga-trump-investigation/ga-supreme-court-trump-2020-election-probe/

 

 

Ah, you lose again TFG. Ha!

 

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Get 'em

 

Trying to overthrow the government has consequences, whether you do it in riot fashon or otherwise.

 

And as an added bonus this case is starting before the Trump J6 case so if it wraps first convictions here could help with convictions in Trumps associated cases.

 

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Federal charges could also come. 

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Good video about the Michigan charges:

 

 

 

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Former Georgia GOP chair argues against indictment in Trump probe

 

Lawyers for Georgia’s former Republican Party chair are again trying to fend off their client’s possible indictment into possible criminal interference with the 2020 presidential election.

 

Ex-GOP chair David Shafer was within his constitutional rights when he cast an “alternate” Electoral College ballot for then-President Donald Trump and therefore should not be criminally charged, Shafer’s lawyers told Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

 

The attorneys made their case in 13-page letter sent to Willis on July 18. Willis is expected to seek an indictment against several individuals in August, and she has previously identified Shafer as one of the targets of her investigation.

 

But Shafer, who presided over the Dec. 14, 2020, meeting of the alternate GOP electors, is protected by the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, his lawyers told Willis. “Such actions are not and cannot be criminal or criminalized, and any attempt to do so is a direct assault on these most highly protected constitutional freedoms.”

 

The lawyers attached an “expert declaration” from Todd Zywicki, a George Mason University bankruptcy law professor who said he also specializes in laws governing presidential elections and transitions. Shafer’s actions, Zywicki wrote, were “lawful, reasonable, proper and necessary, and any suggestion that they could be ‘criminal’ ignores legal and historical precedent, the reasoned advice of counsel received and the plain language of the Constitution, federal and Georgia law.”

 

A spokesman for the Fulton DA’s office declined to comment.

 

The letter to Willis was sent on the same day Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed criminal charges against 16 phony electors for doing essentially the same thing Shafer and his 15 fellow false electors did in a committee room at the state Capitol here. Like the electors in Georgia, Michigan’s GOP electors, in casting their votes for Trump and Pence, said they were “the duly elected and qualified electors.”

 

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Fulton county prosecutors prepare racketeering charges in Trump inquiry

 

The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia has developed evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to two people briefed on the matter.

 

The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an “enterprise” – and a pattern of racketeering activity that is predicated on at least two “qualifying” crimes.

 

In the Trump investigation, the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has evidence to pursue a racketeering indictment predicated on statutes related to influencing witnesses and computer trespass, the people said.

 

Willis had previously said she was weighing racketeering charges in her criminal investigation, but the new details about the direction and scope of the case come as prosecutors are expected to seek indictments starting in the first two weeks of August.

 

The racketeering statute in Georgia is more expansive than its federal counterpart, notably because any attempts to solicit or coerce the qualifying crimes can be included as predicate acts of racketeering activity, even when those crimes cannot be indicted separately.

 

The specific evidence was not clear, though the charge regarding influencing witnesses could include Trump’s conversations with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in which he asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, the people said – and thereby implicate Trump.

 

For the computer trespass charge, where prosecutors would have to show that defendants used a computer or network without authority to interfere with a program or data, that would include the breach of voting machines in Coffee county, the two people said

 

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Woman who faces 80 years in prison for fake elector scheme says she was ‘duped’ by Trump’s lawyer into signing document

 

A woman who was indicted in Michigan for acting as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump says she was “duped” by one of his lawyers, the Washington Examiner reported.

Speaking to a local news outlet, 73-year-old Michele Lundgren said she was asked in December to come to the Michigan Republican Party’s headquarters to sign a certificate swearing Trump had won the 2020 election. She says she signed a form stating she was present for the meeting, but her signature was then copied from the form and then placed on a document declaring her to be an elector.

 

“We signed a sign-in sheet with our names. It fits right into the real electoral ballot,” she said, adding that Trump lawyer Ian Northon “duped” her into thinking she was doing the right thing.

“I was an innocent little bystander in this whole thing, thinking I was doing my civic duty,” Lundgren said.

 

But according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Lundgren and the 15 other people indicted in the scheme knew exactly what they were doing.

 

“The false electors’ actions undermined the public’s faith in the integrity of our elections and, we believe, also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan,” Nessel said in a statement.

 

According to reports, some of the 16 indicted fake electors were local activists who believed Donald Trump had won the 2020 election and still had a chance of serving a second term. As CNN points out, the group includes “current and former state GOP officials, a Republican National Committee member, a sitting mayor, a school board member and Trump supporters who were the plaintiffs in a frivolous lawsuit that tried to overturn the 2020 results.”

 

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Atlanta journalist who saw Trump electors meet subpoenaed in 2020 election investigation

 

An independent Atlanta journalist who observed a meeting where 16 Republicans cast Electoral College ballots falsely claiming Donald Trump won in Georgia has been asked to testify in front of Fulton County grand jurors who could indict the former president and his allies, according to documents reviewed by 11Alive.

 

George Chidi shared images of his two subpoenas in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Monday evening. The journalist said his testimony is required between Aug. 7 and Aug. 31. Chidi also wrote about his subpoenas in an article for The Intercept, an online news publication. 11Alive has also obtained a copy of the subpoenas.

 

Chidi wrote that he has subpoenas for both of the Fulton County grand juries meeting this court term. One panel meets on Mondays and Tuesdays, and the other meets on Thursdays and Fridays. 

 

"I am reviewing my legal options with retained counsel," Chidi wrote in the Intercept. "But I expect to testify, as before, after receiving assurances that I will not be compelled to offer information outside of the narrow issue of election interference and my observations on December 14, 2020."

 

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So despite Fani Willis' assertion in recent reporting that she's "ready to go" it appears that she's still taking witness testimony in front of the Grand Jury, so we likely won't see an indictment in GA until the second week in August at the earliest, and potentially as late as the end of August.

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I think Georgia grand jury indicts in a couple of weeks. TFG will be through with arraignment of J6 charges and maybe scheduling the trial. More Trump court appearances.

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Trump allies face potential charges in Georgia over voting machine breaches

 

The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia has evidence to charge multiple allies of the former president involved in breaching voting machines in the state, according to two people briefed on the matter.

 

The potential charges at issue are computer trespass felonies, the people said, though the final list of defendants and whether they will be brought as part of a racketeering case when prosecutors are expected to present evidence to the grand jury next week remain unclear.

 

To bring a racketeering case under Georgia state law, prosecutors need to show the existence of an “enterprise” predicated on at least two “qualifying” crimes, of which computer trespass is one. The Guardian has reported that prosecutors believe they have sufficient evidence for a racketeering case.

 

The statute itself prohibits the intentional use of a computer or computer network without authorization in order to remove data, either temporarily or permanently. It also prohibits interrupting or interfering with the use of a computer, as well as altering or damaging a computer.

 

Prosecutors have taken a special interest in the breach of voting machines in Coffee county, Georgia, by Trump allies because of the brazen nature of the operation and the possibility that Trump was aware that his allies intended to covertly gain access to the machines.

 

In a series of particularly notable incidents, forensics experts hired by Trump allies copied data from virtually every part of the voting system, which is used statewide in Georgia, before uploading them to a password-protected website that could be accessed by 2020 election deniers.

 

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Former local attorney found guilty of voter fraud charges

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 A former local attorney will be sentenced after being found guilty on two counts of illegal voting.  

 

Prosecutors say former licensed attorney James Saunders, 56, voted twice in Ohio and Florida for the 2020 and 2022 general elections

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According to federal election commission documents, Saunders had made several small donations to Donald Trump’s campaigns and other Republican organizations.