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☆ Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia criminal election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Sidney Powell is shown in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, Atlanta, Aug. 23, 2023. Right-wing attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges stemming from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen other defendants. The first, bail bondsman Scott Hall, pleaded guilty in September to five misdemeanor conspiracy charges. Like Hall, Powell agreed to testify truthfully in upcoming trials involving other co-defendants in the case, including Trump. She was accused of being involved in a scheme to unlawfully breach election equipment in Coffee County, Georgia, and tamper with voting machines.

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☆ Sidney Powell: Former Trump attorney pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start. As part of her guilty plea, Powell is admitting her role in the January 2021 breach of election systems in rural Coffee County, Georgia. Bail bondsman Scott Hall last month pleaded guilty and agreed to testify at future trials. Legal jeopardy elsewhereBeyond the Georgia case, Powell is still facing legal headaches. She is an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal election subversion case that special counsel Jack Smith filed against Trump.

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☆ Release the 'Kraken': Sidney Powell just flipped on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Sidney Powell, a GOP lawyer who briefly represented Donald Trump, has flipped on the former president, striking a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors ahead of her trial on a slew of criminal charges. AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to court filings, Powell pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy to interfere with election duties. Powell's plea deal was announced at a court hearing on Thursday. As part of the agreement, she will also have to pay $2,700 in restitution to replace election equipment, as well as a $6,000 fine. AdvertisementAdvertisementPowell was set to go to trial on Monday, along with co-defendant and former Trump campaign lawyer Kenneth Chesebro.

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☆ Sidney Powell could finally be disbarred after pleading guilty, but she has a dark money org to fall back on
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has been subject to sanctions and an ongoing disbarment effort. A Texas legal ethics practitioner said this kind of case should lead to "automatic disbarment." Powell flipped on Donald Trump and pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts related to the 2020 election in Georgia on Friday morning. Bob Bennett, a Texas lawyer with experience defending other attorneys in disciplinary cases, believes she should finally be disbarred. Financial statements for the group say the only related-party transaction is paying an LLC owned by Powell $120,000 for rent.

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Sidney Powell, a former attorney for Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Thursday morning in a sweeping racketeering case and will testify against the former president on charges that he attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in Georgia. Powell in a downtown Atlanta courtroom pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts and was sentenced to six years probation. Powell also agreed in the recorded statement to testify against any of the remaining defendants and to hand over any documents in her possession related to the case. Powell’s guilty plea marks the second such plea in the 19-person racketeering case that District Attorney Fani Willis spent two years developing. Scott Hall, a bail bondsman, pleaded guilty last month and agreed to testify at future trials.

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☆ First co-defendant in Trump Georgia election case pleads guilty
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Scott Hall, one of 18 co-defendants of former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case, pleaded guilty Friday to multiple criminal charges. Hall, a bail bondsman, is the first defendant in the case to plead guilty in the case. Hall, who pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts as part of a negotiated deal, will avoid spending time behind bars. Like all other defendants in the case, Hall had pleaded not guilty to the charges brought by Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis. But earlier Friday, an attorney for Hall submitted a court filing waiving his indictment in the case.

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Washington CNN —In her new book “Enough,” former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson paints the closing days of the Trump White House as even more chaotic and lawless than she previously disclosed in her shocking televised testimony last summer. “We killed Herman Cain,” Meadows told Hutchinson and asked for his wife’s phone number. Unlike White House communications director Alyssa Farah, who resigned on December 3, 2020, or deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews, who left on January 6, 2021, Hutchinson remained. In the summer of 2017, Trump’s first year in office, Hutchinson was an intern in Sen. Ted Cruz’s office. It turns out, Hutchinson writes, that she coordinated with Farah, who is now a CNN political commentator, telling her everything she knew.

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☆ Trump Georgia election juror names to be kept secret until trial ends, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee hears motions from attorneys representing Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell in Atlanta on Sept. 6, 2023. The identities of jurors for the Georgia election interference case of former President Donald Trump will be kept secret until the end of the trial, a judge ordered Monday. Those jurors "shall be identified by number only in court filings or in open court during the pendency of trial," Judge Scott McAfee wrote in the ruling in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta. Parties in the case are barred from disclosing the names, addresses, telephone numbers or identifying employment information of the jury or any prospective jurors, McAfee wrote. The judge's ruling follows violent threats made against officials in Fulton County, which prompted an FBI investigation.

Persons: Scott McAfee, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Donald Trump, McAfee Organizations: Fulton County Superior Court, Trump Locations: Fulton, Atlanta, Georgia, Fulton County

☆ Smartmatic implicated in alleged bribery scheme involving top Filipino election official
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing Fox News and former President Donald Trump’s top allies over their false claims that its machines rigged the 2020 election, was implicated in an alleged bribery scheme involving the former top election official in the Philippines, according to court filings obtained by CNN. The court documents indicate that the Justice Department has filed money laundering charges against former Filipino election administrator Andres Bautista – and that four executives from Smartmatic subsidiaries are implicated as uncharged co-conspirators. Bautista awarded $199 million in contracts to Smartmatic for about 94,000 voting machines and to handle the results of the Philippines’ presidential election in 2016. The new allegations of corrupt foreign dealings could boost the defense for Fox News and the other Trump allies currently fighting Smartmatic in court. The criminal complaint against Bautista doesn’t accuse Smartmatic of tampering with election results in the Philippines or any other jurisdiction.

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☆ Sidney Powell's lawyers say the Georgia racketeering case killed her TSA privileges and wrecked her 'previously sterling' reputation
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump attorney Sidney Powell is trying to dismiss a racketeering charge in Georgia against her. One of her lawyers' reasons is that the indictment has ruined her "previously sterling" reputation. That includes her no longer being a "trusted traveler" with TSA, they said in a Friday motion. As one of 19 co-defendants, Powell has pleaded not guilty to the seven charges brought against her, including conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to defraud the state, and racketeering. One of their supporting arguments was that the indictment had tarnished the "previously sterling reputations" of Powell and the other defendants.

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☆ Chesebro asks court to suppress use of emails in Trump Georgia election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

But there was "no such concern" in this case, they argued, " because months earlier Microsoft had archived all the e-mails in Fulton County Superior Court." Attorneys for Kenneth Chesebro, a pro-Trump lawyer, argued the search warrant used to obtain emails from his MSN email account ahead of his indictment "is defective" and the search and seizure of the emails was "illegal." Those two factors are "fatal to the search warrant," they argued. A spokesman for Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Chesebro, Trump, and 17 others in the Georgia election case, declined to comment on the filings. Chesebro and Sidney Powell, another pro-Trump attorney charged in the case, were granted speedy trials.

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☆ Rupert Murdoch is stepping down from running Fox and News Corp. and is handing the reins to his son Lachlan
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down from his role at Fox and News Corp., according to a company statement. "For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change," Murdoch wrote. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt's unclear how Murdoch's media empire will change post-Rupert. Lachlan Murdoch, 52, has been CEO since 2019 after the baton switched back and forth between him and his brother James as to who would succeed their father. And while he's privately criticized Trump, he's also said that the Fox audience supports the former president, suggesting he knows that supporting Trump is good for Fox's business, CNN has reported.

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☆ Smartmatic lawyer says Rupert Murdoch is like a 'mafia boss' who 'ordered a hit' with Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Smartmatic lawyer compared Rupert Murdoch to a "mafia boss" in a court hearing Wednesday. The company says Fox News and parent company Fox Corp. defamed it through 2020 election conspiracy theories. Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch "ordered a hit" on Smartmatic, the Smartmatic lawyer argued. Connolly made the extended analogy to argue that Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News, shouldn't escape liability in the case. Erin Murphy, an attorney representing both Fox Corp. and Fox News, argued that it wasn't enough to show that the Murdochs were generally involved in shaping Fox News's editorial coverage.

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☆ Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation suit against Newsmax over election lies set for September 2024 trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Newsmax over the right-wing network’s airing of 2020 election lies is scheduled to go to trial in late September 2024, a Delaware judge decided. The decision by Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis means — barring an out-of-court settlement — Trump’s lies about the 2020 election will be front and center at a four-week trial during the closing weeks of the 2024 election. Davis presided over a similar high-profile defamation case brought by Dominion against Fox News over the network’s airing of election lies. The case ended in April with a last-second $787 million settlement, the largest publicly known defamation settlement in US history. Newsmax is also facing a massive defamation suit from Smartmatic, another voting technology company that was accused by right-wing figures of rigging the 2020 election.

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☆ Trump trial in Georgia election case won't happen in October, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald Trump will not head to trial next month alongside two of his co-defendants whose prosecutions in the sweeping Georgia election interference case were severed by a judge Thursday. But McAfee declined an effort by Chesebro and Powell to separate their cases from each other, meaning they are both set to head to the same trial on Oct. 23. The ruling is a blow to Georgia prosecutors who wanted to keep all 19 co-defendants together in the case. McAfee wrote in his order that severing Chesebro and Powell was "simply a procedural and logistical inevitability." "The Fulton County Courthouse simply contains no courtroom adequately large enough to hold all 19 defendants, their multiple attorneys and support staff, the sheriff's deputies, court personnel, and the State's prosecutorial team," McAfee wrote.

Persons: Donald Trump, Scott McAfee, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Fani Willis, McAfee, Powell Organizations: U.S, Reagan Washington National Airport Locations: Washington, Arlington , Virginia, U.S, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Fulton

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts as he holds a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 29, 2023. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee cited logistical concerns and the array of unsettled legal issues in separating the trial of attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell from Trump and the other 16 co-defendants. Trump was charged in August in an indictment alleging he and his co-defendants conspired to pressure Georgia election officials to reverse his loss to Democratic President Joe Biden. Powell and Chesebro, two attorneys accused of aiding Trump's efforts to reverse his election defeat, previously asked for a speedy trial, which is scheduled to begin October 23. Trump and several other defendants said that timeline would not give them enough time to prepare a defense.

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Former President Donald Trump won't have his day in court in October a Georgia judge ruled Thursday, saying the high-profile defendant could sever his case from two co-defendants who want to move more quickly. Trial for two defendants – lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell – will go ahead as scheduled Oct. 23. Those two invoked their right to a speedy trial, but other defendants have not yet done so. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argued in a filing Tuesday night to try all 19 defendants at once. Several of the defendants, including Chesebro, Powell, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, want to be tried separately.

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McAfee’s order shuts down the effort by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to have all 19 defendants tried together in October. Smith took more streamlined approach than Willis against Trump, and charged him by himself, without any co-defendants. Additionally, several of the Georgia case defendants have parallel proceedings in federal courts underway. If any of those requests are successful, it is still unclear what that would mean for the rest of Willis’ case. Meadows will continue to fight in federal court to move the proceedings out of state court.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is waiving his right to seek a speedy trial in the Georgia case in which he and 18 others are accused of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election. Trump's filing is part of the legal maneuvering as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willisseeks to try all 19 defendants together starting next month. According to Georgia law, any defendant who files a demand for a speedy trial has a right to have a trial begin within the court term when the demand is filed or in the next court term. Political Cartoons View All 1154 ImagesThe Georgia indictment against Trump and the others was filed in the court term that ended earlier this month. Lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro filed their speedy trial demands before the end of that court term, meaning a trial would have to start before the end of the current court term in early November.

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☆ Hunter Biden sues former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler, alleging illegal hacking of his laptop and iPhone data
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A federal lawsuit filed by Hunter Biden accuses former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler of hacking his data. Ziegler denied the allegations and told Insider that he came by the data legally from Biden's laptop. The Hunter Biden laptop story is only the latest product of opposition research to make headlines. Ziegler posted more than 100,000 emails from Hunter Biden's account online, along with photos and other documents. Hunter Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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☆ Trump, Meadows offer quid pro quo on speedy trial to sever Georgia election case from co-defendants
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump on Wednesday offered to "exchange" his right to a speedy trial in his Georgia election-conspiracy case for an Atlanta judge ruling that would have the former president tried separately from 18 other defendants. Trump's co-defendant Mark Meadows, who served as his White House chief of staff, shortly afterward filed an identical offer waiving a speedy trial in exchange for his own case being tried separately. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has yet to rule on the severance requests that Trump, Meadows and 10 other defendants have filed. It is by no means clear that McAfee would grant severances based on waivers of speedy trial. Trump and the other defendants have the absolute right to a speedy trial in the case.

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Defendants have been filing a slew of motions for separate trials, faster trials, trial in a different jurisdiction or – in Trump's case – no trial at all. But the flurry of paperwork could delay the trials, aiding Trump's efforts to push off any resolution until after the 2024 elections. "The RICO conspiracy charge ensures any trial would share the same evidence and witnesses,” Willis wrote. Prosecutors in all of the cases against Trump have apparently anticipated the efforts to draw out the cases. Putting all 19 defendants on trial next month, however, is a bigger legal and logistical task – and one the judge appears skeptical could happen.

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Two of the people charged have filed speedy trial demands, and Judge Scott McAfee set their trial for Oct. 23. That could lead to multiple trials in the high-profile case happening simultaneously, creating security issues and “unavoidable burdens” on witnesses and victims, prosecutors argued. Five of the defendants are seeking to move their cases to federal court, and lawyers for Trump have said he may do the same. But prosecutors noted that the law explicitly allows a case to continue to move forward in a state court while the question of moving a case to federal court is pending. Federal Judge Steve Jones last week rejected the attempt by Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his case to federal court and sent it back to state court, but Meadows is appealing that ruling.

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The filing was the latest legal volley in the case, which Mr. Trump sought to quash even before his indictment in mid-August. It came as little surprise to legal analysts watching the case, who had expected Mr. Trump’s lawyers to mount an aggressive defense long before the start of a trial. Mr. Smith, a lawyer based in Atlanta who helped Mr. Trump’s team challenge his loss in Georgia after the election, faces a dozen charges in the case. And, prosecutors charge, he took part in the efforts to get fake Trump electors to cast votes and sign documents that falsely claimed that he had won the election. Mr. Smith has pleaded not guilty.

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☆ A Georgia grand jury recommended indicting Sen. Lindsey Graham for trying to overturn the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A special grand jury in Atlanta last year recommended indicting Sen. Lindsay Graham for election interference. The special grand jury also recommended charges against former Sens. "We find by unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election." Graham fought a subpoena from the special grand jury — a legal battle he ultimately lost after the Supreme Court rejected his challenges. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe special grand jury recommended indictments against 39 people overall.

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