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Two of the 18 allies of former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) accused along with him for his attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential elections in Georgia turned themselves in this Tuesday (08.22.2023) to Justice in the state.
Scott Hall, charged with conspiring to illegally access voter information and the vote counting machines, was turned in to the Fulton County Jail, according to the jail’s website.
The former president’s ally faces seven criminal charges, including one for violation of the RICO law, commonly used against mob bosses.
The Justice set his bail at $10,000 (about 9,211 euros), according to prison records.
Shortly after, lawyer John Eastman, considered the mastermind of the legal strategy that Trump and his allies tried to put into practice in their attempt to reverse the electoral result, turned himself in.
Eastman was released just over an hour after being arraigned. His bail was set at $100,000.
Meanwhile, other of the defendants together with the ex-president sought that their trial be transferred to the federal courts, as Jeffrey Clarke, a former Justice Department official, or David Shafer, the former leader of the Georgia Republican Party.
Both follow the strategy of former Trump adviser Mark Meadows, who last week asked to transfer his case to a federal court, claiming that the charges against him are related to his work as a government official, so they are outside the jurisdiction. of Fulton County.
Both Meadows and Clarke have filed emergency requests to stay their arrest while they try to transfer their case to federal court.
Voter fraud in Georgia
All the defendants in the electoral fraud case in Georgia have until Friday at noon to voluntarily surrender to the authorities, as determined by the special prosecutor in charge, Fani Willis.
Trump confirmed Monday on social media that he will appear in Fulton on Thursday. He must post $200,000 bail to avoid jail.
The former Republican president was indicted last week on 13 counts by a Georgia grand jury for attempting to rig the results of the 2020 election in the state, where the current president, Democrat Joe Biden won by a narrow margin..
This is Donald Trump’s fourth criminal indictment. Two weeks ago he was charged in Washington DC with four charges for allegedly trying to reverse the result of the 2020 US elections and encouraging the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In addition, in New York he has been accused of 34 charges for alleged irregular payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had an “affair” in the past, to buy his silence during the 2016 election campaign.
His other criminal case is in Florida, where he is charged with 40 counts of illegally removing classified documents from the White House and keeping classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
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