Georgia prosecutor agrees to an immunity deal with multiple GOP “alternate” electors who claimed then-President Donald Trump won the state in 2020.
, a special prosecutor advising the Georgia grand jury appointed to investigate Trump’s election meddling efforts, gave Debrow immunity offers for eight of the ten electors she represented . The two who did not receive offers decided to obtain individual counsel. The filing does not name which of the 16 electors were offered immunity deals.
Friday’s filing comes in response to a motion Willis submitted in April seeking to have Debrow disqualified from the case. Prosecutors say that Debrow didn’t inform her clients of an immunity offer last summer, and that some of the electors she represents havein interviews with prosecutors. Willis called Debrow’s continued representation of the group of electors an “impracticable and ethical mess.
Debrow shot back in Friday’s filing, calling the DA’s motion “reckless, frivolous, offensive, and completely without merit.” She claimed that the DA only floated “highly generalized, non-individualized ‘offers to offer’ potential immunity” last summer and that her clients were informed of this possibility. Debrow alleged that the DA’s office “knew” their representation of that summer’s immunity conversations was “false” when they filed the April motion.
Willis’s office opened an inquiry into Trump and his allies’ election meddling in February 2021, and in May 2022 convened a special grand jury with the power to subpoena witnesses. In addition to investigating the fake elector scheme, the grand jury also looked into Trump’s
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