NY.- More than half of the fake Georgia voters who gathered in December 2020 to try to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power have accepted immunity deals in the election interference investigation there, according to a court document filed Friday and from people with knowledge of the investigation.
In addition, Craig A. Gillen, a former independent deputy counsel on the Iran Contra scandal in the 1980s, was hired to represent fake voters who could face criminal charges, said David Shafer, head of the Georgia Republican Party.
Gillen specializes in cases involving racketeering, which is one of the charges being considered by Fani T. Willis, District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia.
Willis’ office has spent more than two years investigating whether the former president and his allies illegally intervened in the 2020 Georgia election, which Trump narrowly lost to President Biden.
A special grand jury that heard evidence in the case for seven months recommended more than a dozen people for indictment, and a spokeswoman made strong signals in an interview with The New York Times in February that Trump was one from them.
Ultimately, it will be up to Willis to decide which charges to drop before a regular grand jury, and she said she will do so after a new jury is assembled in mid-July.
His case focuses in part on a scheme to create a group of voters who pledged to Trump, weeks after the 2020 election, despite Biden’s victory in Georgia.
Voter attorneys have argued that they were simply trying to keep Trump’s legal options open, though when they met on December 14, 2020, three recounts affirmed that Biden won there.
