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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to disclose
this summer whether former President Donald Trump and others will be
charged with crimes related to interfering with the 2020 election.
Attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow represented 10 of the 16
suspected fake electors who may have offered to cast electoral
college votes for Trump even though Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia
and the right to all of the state's 16 electoral college votes.
Debrow said in a court filing on Friday that prosecutors "made
actual, written offers of immunity to these eight electors in April
2023 but not to the remaining two." That led to the non-immunized
clients getting new lawyers, Debrow said in the filing.
Also in the filing, Debrow said, "All eight of the electors who were
offered immunity accepted."
With immunity, those eight would be free to testify against any
defendants.
A spokesperson for Willis did not immediately respond to a request
for comment.
Willis' probe began soon after a recorded January 2021 phone call in
which Trump asked Georgia's top election official to "find" the
votes to reverse Biden's victory.
Trump, who is seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination,
has denied wrongdoing and accused Willis, an elected Democrat, of
targeting him for political gain.
Trump became the first former U.S. president to face criminal
charges when New York prosecutors indicted him on March 30 for
allegedly falsifying business records related to hush money payments
made to a porn star who claimed to have had an affair with him.
He faces other investigations, including a pair of U.S. Justice
Department probes into his handling of classified materials after
leaving the White House and his efforts to alter 2020 election
results.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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