Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
In August, a Fulton County grand jury indicted Powell, former President Donald Trump and 17 other co-defendants on charges ranging from making false statements and impersonating a public officer to conspiracy and racketeering – charges generally reserved for organized crime.
Powell’s guilty plea comes one day before her trial over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia was scheduled to start.
She’s agreed to testify in future proceedings as part of her plea deal.
Per the agreement, she will get six years probation, a fine and have to testify against anyone else related to the case, including Trump. Powell is also prohibited from speaking with witnesses or co-defendants.
CNN has more:
As part of her guilty plea, Powell is admitting her role in the January 2021 breach of election systems in rural Coffee County, Georgia. With the help of local GOP officials, a group of Trump supporters accessed and copied information from the county’s election systems in hopes of somehow proving that the election was rigged against Trump.
Her attorneys had vehemently rejected prosecutors’ claims that she orchestrated the Coffee County breach. They’ve said at pretrial hearings that prosecutors are “incorrect” and that “the evidence will show that she was not the driving force behind” the incident.
Powell is now the second person in the sprawling racketeering case to plead guilty. Bail bondsman Scott Hall last month pleaded guilty and agreed to testify at future trials. The other 17 defendants, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty.
Pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro’s trial is slated to begin Friday with jury selection.
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