Former Donald Trump's lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty Thursday, October 19, in exchange for a reduced sentence in the Georgia election tampering case, one day before the start of jury selection in her trial.
Under the deal, Powell will receive six years of probation, fork over a $6,000 fine, pen an apology letter to the people of Georgia, and must deliver testimony in future trials in the case including against the 77-year-old 45th president of the USA, Donald Trump.
Powell, 68, is the second of 19 defendants in the case to plead guilty after bail bondsman Scott Hall admitted last month to five misdemeanor charges. Hall was hit with five years of probation and must also testify in future trials as part of the deal.
Fulton County
prosecutors slapped Powell with seven counts on August 14 for her
alleged efforts to undermine the 2020 Peach State election. They also
accused her of scheming to unlawfully access voting equipment in
deep-red Coffee County, Georgia, in an attempt to find evidence of
fraud.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Powell became one of Trump’s main lawyers in his bid to remain in power infamously vowing to “release the Kraken” of purported fraud evidence.
She also partook in
numerous meetings and strategy sessions with Trump allies while they
hatched plans to overturn the election, including a mid-December 2020
White House meetings.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts in response to the Georgia indictment.
The
former president is facing a grand total of 91 criminal counts spanning
four criminal indictments, including the Georgia case.
The
trial of another co-defendant in the Fulton County indictment, lawyer
Kenneth Chesebro, is set to begin Friday with jury selection.
Fulton
County District Attorney Fani Willis began her probe back in early 2021
following a January 2, 2021, call Trump held with Georgia Secretary of
State Brad Raffensperger in which he emphasized the need to “find, uh,
11,780 votes” to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the state.
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