A former associate of President Trump’s has pled guilty to five counts in the election subversion case that will be heard in Georgia in 2020.
The first defendant in the case brought by the Fulton County district attorney’s office has taken a plea agreement with prosecutors. Scott Hall, a 59-year-old bail bondsman, has done so.
The agreement calls for five years of probation and was filed with the Fulton County Superior Court on Friday afternoon.
Hall was charged with conspiracy on January 7, 2021, for allegedly gaining unauthorised access to voter information and ballot counting devices at the Coffee County election office.
While pro-Trump conspiracy theorists were trying to uncover voter fraud, he spent hours inside a secure part of the election office. Office surveillance footage on the day of the hack shows Hall. He admitted to gaining access to a voting machine during his testimony before the special grand jury in the Fulton County case.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a massive racketeering lawsuit last month, accusing Hall, Trump, and 17 others of plotting to reverse the election results in Georgia.
All 18 defendants, including Trump, have entered not guilty pleas.
Two defendants are now scheduled for trial, but prosecutors in Willis’ office have hinted that they may offer plea bargains to one or both of them soon.
During a procedural hearing for former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, the suspected mastermind of the fraudulent elector scam, the information came to light. On October 23, the trial against these defendants will begin.
