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Most Fake Trump Electors Have Taken Immunity Deals in Georgia Case

Prosecutors are nearing charging decisions after investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 election.

More than half of the bogus Georgia electors who were convened in December 2020 to try to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power have taken immunity deals in the investigation into election interference there, according to a court filing on Friday and people with knowledge of the inquiry.

In addition, Craig A. Gillen, the former deputy independent counsel in the 1980s-era Iran Contra scandal, has been hired to represent a fake elector who could still face criminal charges, David Shafer, the head of the Georgia Republican Party. Mr. Gillen specializes in cases involving racketeering, which is among the charges being weighed by Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga.

Ms. Willis’s office has spent more than two years investigating whether the former president and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia, which Mr. Trump narrowly lost to President Biden. A special grand jury that heard evidence in the case for roughly seven months recommended more than a dozen people for indictments, and its forewoman strongly hinted in an interview with The New York Times in February that Mr. Trump was among them.

Ultimately, it will be up to Ms. Willis to decide which charges to seek before a regular grand jury, which she has said she will do after a new jury is seated in mid-July. Her case is focused in part on a plan to create the slate of electors pledged to Mr. Trump in the weeks after the 2020 election despite Mr. Biden’s victory in Georgia.

Lawyers for the electors have argued they were simply trying to keep Mr. Trump’s legal options open, though when they met on Dec. 14, 2020, three vote counts had all affirmed Mr. Biden’s win there.

Even before any indictments are announced, the legal jockeying in the case has become intense. In March, Mr. Trump’s lawyers sought to quash the special grand jury’s final report, most of which remains sealed.

In April, Ms. Willis sought to have Kimberly B. Debrow, then a lawyer for 10 of the 16 Trump electors, thrown off the proceedings. According to a motion filed at the time by Ms. Willis’s office, some of the electors recently told prosecutors that Ms. Debrow and another lawyer, Holly Pierson, had not informed them of offers of immunity in exchange for cooperation that prosecutors made last year.

Ms. Debrow responded with her own filing on Friday, in which she called the accusation “completely without merit” and said she had made her clients fully aware, in writing, of what she called “generalized potential offers of immunity.”

Ms. Pierson, who along with Mr. Gillen represents Mr. Shafer, has called the district attorney’s assertions “entirely false.” Both Ms. Debrow and Ms. Pierson have been paid by the state Republican Party.

Ms. Debrow’s new filing also revealed that eight of her clients had been offered immunity deals and that all of them had accepted. At least one additional elector who is not represented by Ms. Debrow also has a deal in place, according to people with knowledge of the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the investigation is ongoing.

Ms. Debrow said in her filing that two clients had not been offered immunity deals and now had new lawyers, though she did not name the clients. A recent filing from Cathy Latham, a fake elector for Mr. Trump who was the Republican Party leader in rural Coffee County, Ga., revealed that she now has her own representation.

Ms. Latham played a key role in an effort by Trump allies to access voter data in her county after the 2020 election — another point of scrutiny in the investigation.

While all of the fake electors had long been identified by prosecutors as targets who could face criminal charges, three have been considered particularly vulnerable by those with knowledge of the investigation: Mr. Shafer, Ms. Latham and Shawn Still, a Georgia state senator who filed and later withdrew a lawsuit related to the vote count in Coffee County.

Mr. Still did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ms. Willis’s office declined to comment. Her office alleged in a filing last month that some of the Trump electors have accused another of illegal conduct.

But in her motion, Ms. Debrow called the allegation “categorically false.” She added that the court “need not take defense counsel’s word for the fact that none of the electors incriminated themselves or each other — these interviews were recorded.”

It will be left to Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of Fulton County Superior Court, who has been presiding over the inquiry, to sort through the competing motions.
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Eight Georgia GOP electors accept immunity deals in Fulton Trump probe

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At least eight of the Georgia Republicans who served as “alternate” presidential electors in 2020 have accepted immunity deals with the Fulton County District Attorney’s office in exchange for their testimony, according to the lawyer representing the group.

The disclosure came in a Friday afternoon court filing from Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow, an attorney prosecutors are seeking to remove from the case due, in part, to her unusual joint representation arrangement.

In a fiery 68-page response, the Newnan-based Debrow vehemently defended her actions. She accused special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who is heading up the DA’s criminal investigation of alleged meddling in Georgia’s latest presidential election, with misleading and intimidating her clients during recorded interviews last month after they accepted the immunity deals. Debrow did not disclose which of the electors had agreements in place.

In one case, Debrow wrote, “Mr. Wade made outrageous threats and engaged in intimidation tactics in front of the elector being interviewed when Mr. Wade believed the recording had stopped, threatening to revoke their immunity and indict them (which he has no authority to do), all to try to silence defense counsel and prevent the truth from coming out.”

A spokesman for Fulton DA Fani Willis declined to comment.

Prosecutors have indicated they’re interested in the documents the GOP activists submitted to the National Archives following a ceremony in the state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, in which they claimed to be Georgia’s duly elected presidential electors.

They’ve also focused their investigation on calls former President Donald Trump and his allies placed to Georgia officials, alleged attempts to intimidate a Fulton County poll worker and efforts to spread misinformation about Georgia’s vote count, among other events between Nov. 2020 and Jan. 2021.

All 16 Republican electors were sent letters from the Fulton DA’s office last summer alerting them that they were investigation “targets” and could see criminal charges as a result. Willis and her office were later barred from pursuing charges against one of those electors, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, due to a political conflict of interest.

Legal experts are divided on the legal exposure of the GOP electors. Some argue they could be charged with violating state laws against false statements, forgery, racketeering and election fraud. Others contend that the intent of the electors will be a key factor in determining any criminality — and could be difficult to prove.

David Shafer, the outgoing chairman of the Georgia Republican Party who served as an elector, has long maintained the group did nothing wrong and was following the advice of legal counsel to “preserve” Trump’s rights as the then-president fought Georgia’s vote count in court. He and others have cited as precedent the alternate slate of Democratic electors produced in Hawaii during the 1960 elections.

Debrow at one point represented 11 of the GOP electors alongside attorney Holly Pierson. (Among them were newly elected state Sen. Shawn Still, state GOP treasurer Joseph Brannan, assistant treasurer Vikki Consiglio and Atlanta lawyer Brad Carver.)

In November, Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney directed Pierson and Debrow to choose between representing elector Shafer and the 10 other electors following a challenge from the DA’s office. Pierson opted to retain Shafer, while Debrow remained with the 10 other electors.

In Friday’s filing, Debrow confirmed that she was currently only representing eight electors. The two other clients, she said, had hired outside counsel since they were not offered immunity deals.

Among Debrow’s clients who appeared to have found new legal representation: former Coffee County GOP Chairwoman Cathy Latham. The former school teacher joined an effort from former President Donald Trump to disqualify the DA’s office from its investigation and quash evidence generated by a special grand jury. Latham’s filing, which suggested she did not have an immunity deal in place, was signed by a new lawyer.

Debrow’s filing came in response to an effort from Willis to disqualify Debrow from representing so many investigation players, which prosecutors said had become an “impracticable and ethical mess.” Prosecutors also raised a damning allegation: that Debrow and Pierson had failed to inform their clients about the potential immunity deals after they were offered last summer.

Debrow had previously called prosecutors’ claims “baseless, false, and offensive,” and in Friday’s filing she laid out in great detail her communications with her clients, McBurney and the DA’s office. She provided signed statements that her clients had previously submitted to the Superior Court confirming Debrow’s account about when they were informed about immunity — and potential immunity — deals.

rosecutors’ “allegations about the immunity issue are plainly false, and their own interview recordings prove that fact,” Debrow wrote. “The District Attorney has falsely but publicly maligned the integrity of two well-respected and fellow members of the Bar based on fictional claims known to be untrue when made. Such reckless and unprofessional conduct is simply untenable and unacceptable.”

Debrow also countered an allegation from the DA’s office that some of her clients had recently accused a fellow elector of committing “acts that are violations of Georgia law.” Debrow said she had sat in on and recorded all of her clients’ interviews and that no one said anything incriminating of themselves or one another. Not only that, but since they had immunity deals in place they couldn’t incriminate on another, she added.

All of her clients, she said, “remain united in their innocence.”

Both Debrow and Pierson’s legal fees are being paid for, at least in part, by the state Republican Party. So far, the Georgia GOP has spent at least $317,000 on lawyers representing the electors, public filings show.

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