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Trump co-defendant Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election-interference case
By Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner
October 19, 2023 at 10:12 a.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/19/pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-pleads-guilty-georgia-election-interference-case/
ATLANTA — Just one day before jury selection was set to begin in her criminal trial, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally conspiring to interfere with Georgia elections.
Powell admitted guilt to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties. She agreed to pay a $6,000 fine and $2,700 in restitution to the state of Georgia, turn over documents and testify truthfully in her co-defendants’ trials.
She is the second of former president Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the sprawling racketeering case to accept a plea deal and agree to testify against her co-defendants. The other is bail bondsman Scott Hall. Both faced charges related to their involvement in a secretive effort to access and copy elections software in rural Coffee County.
By Holly Bailey and Amy Gardner
October 19, 2023 at 10:12 a.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/19/pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-pleads-guilty-georgia-election-interference-case/
ATLANTA — Just one day before jury selection was set to begin in her criminal trial, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally conspiring to interfere with Georgia elections.
Powell admitted guilt to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties. She agreed to pay a $6,000 fine and $2,700 in restitution to the state of Georgia, turn over documents and testify truthfully in her co-defendants’ trials.
She is the second of former president Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the sprawling racketeering case to accept a plea deal and agree to testify against her co-defendants. The other is bail bondsman Scott Hall. Both faced charges related to their involvement in a secretive effort to access and copy elections software in rural Coffee County.
