八个所谓的“假选举人“在佐治亚州,据他们的律师称,涉嫌参与推翻该州2020年选举结果的人已经接受了富尔顿县对此事的调查豁免权。
在周五提交给法院的一份文件中,代表10名假选民的律师表示,富尔顿县地方检察官办公室在4月份为她的八名客户提供了豁免。
律师金伯利·德布罗(Kimberly Debrow)在文件中说,“在审查了实际的书面豁免提议后,这八名选民都接受了他们的豁免提议。”
富尔顿县地方检察官范尼·威利斯探索前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)努力推翻他在该州的选举失利,此前特朗普在2021年1月的一次电话中恳求国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格(John Kerry)帮助他“找到11,780张选票”,这是他赢得佐治亚州所需的确切数字。
调查1月6日国会大厦袭击事件的众议院特别委员会表示,在多个摇摆州设立的“假选举人”计划,“在关键战场州聚集了一群人,让他们自称为选举人,创建了与这些假选举人相关的假证书,然后将这些证书传输到华盛顿和国会,以便在1月6日的国会联席会议上进行统计。”
文件显示,其中七名选民参加了地方检察官办公室的面试。
该州所有16名“假选举人”之前都被告知他们被考虑探测器的目标。
2023年4月27日,美国前总统、共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普出席在新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特举行的竞选活动。
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周五的新文件是在威利斯上个月早些时候要求法官取消德布罗同时代表选民的资格后提交的。威利斯在她的法庭文件中声称,德布劳代表多个选民构成了利益冲突,特别是在一些选民在接受地方检察官办公室采访时表示其他选民犯了罪之后。
德布劳在周五提交的文件中否认了这一指控。
“在这些采访期间或之后的任何时候,DA选举团队都没有声明他们认为一名选民在指控另一名联合代表的选民,或者他们认为已经出现了利益冲突,”文件中说。
德布劳还反驳了关于她没有向她的客户提供早期豁免的指控,并指责DA的一名调查人员在就该问题采访一名选民时试图“误导”他们。
根据文件,德布劳和调查人员发生了“激烈的争吵”,期间调查人员威胁要“撕毁”交易并起诉选举人。
8 Trump 'fake electors' have accepted immunity in Georgia election probe, attorney says
Eight of the so-called "fake electors" in Georgia who were allegedly involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state have accepted immunity in the Fulton County probe into the matter, according to their lawyer.
In a court filing in the case on Friday, an attorney who represents 10 of the fake electors said the Fulton County district attorney's office reached out in April to provide an immunity offer for eight of her clients.
"After reviewing the actual, written offers of immunity, each of those eight electors accepted their immunity offer," the filing by the attorney, Kimberly Debrow, said.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis isprobingformer President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his election loss in the state, after Trump was heard in a January 2021 phone call pleading with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to help him "find 11,780 votes," the exact number he needed to win Georgia.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack said the "fake elector" plan, set up in multiple swing states, assembled "groups of individuals in key battleground states and got them to call themselves electors, created phony certificates associated with these fake electors, and then transmitted these certificates to Washington, and to the Congress, to be counted during the joint session of Congress on January 6th."
Seven of the electors, according to the filing, have sat for interviews with the district attorney's office.
All 16 "fake electors" in the state had previously been informed they were consideredtargets of the probe.
The new filing on Friday came after Willis earlier last month asked the judge to disqualify Debrow from simultaneously representing the electors. Willis claimed in her court filing that Debrow's representation of multiple electors amounted to a conflict of interest, especially after some of the electors stated during interviews with the DA's office that other electors had committed crimes.
Debrow, in her filing on Friday, denied that accusation.
"At no time during or after any of these interview did the DA election team state that they believed an elector was incriminating another jointly represented elector or that they believed a conflict of interest had arisen," the filing stated.
Debrow also pushed back on the accusation that she did not bring earlier immunity offers to her clients, and accused one of the DA's investigators of an "egregious and aggressive" attempt to "mislead" one of the electors during their interview regarding regarding that issue.
Debrow and the investigator, according to the filing, got into a "heated exchange" during which the investigator threatened to "tear up" the deal and indict the elector.