A Fulton County grand jury has recommended that prosecutors bring criminal charges against former Georgia U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and Sen. Lindsey Graham for interfering in the 2020 presidential election.
The grand jury report released Friday reveals that the committee found three U.S. senators and Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser to then-President Donald Trump, were among 21 alleged co-conspirators who should have been charged in August when a grand jury indicted him on extortion-related crimes. Trump and 18 of his allies. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who oversaw the seven-month investigation by a special grand jury in 2022, made the full report public Friday.
The special grand jury heard evidence and testimony from 75 witnesses before recommending that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis prosecute 30 people for their role in an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, in which Democratic President Joe Biden narrowly defeated Trump for re-election.
In February, a restricted excerpt from a 28-page special commission report said the jury believed multiple people committed perjury in the case.
While the 2020 presidential election saga was playing out in Georgia and many other states, Loeffler and Perdue were also on the campaign trail, engaging in fierce runoff battles with Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
Both Perdue and Loeffler have criticized the 2020 election, calling the results fraudulent. Perdue and Loeffler met with Republican Gov. Brian Kemp after the Nov. 3, 2020, election to try to convince him to call a special session to overturn Trump’s victory.
Loeffler and Perdue were defeated in their respective races by Warnock and Ossoff, which clinched control of Congress for Democrats when the Biden administration took office in January 2021.
A special grand jury also voted 13-7 to indict veteran South Carolina legislator Graham, who has faced questions about whether he tried to put pressure state election officials on 2020 election
Graham’s attorneys say he was performing his duties as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when he contacted the Georgia Secretary of State’s office to ask about the state’s procedures for invalidating absentee ballots and other election matters.
Aug. 14 indictments by a grand jury in Fulton resulted in multiple felony charges against Trump and his former personal attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and several fraudulent Electoral College voters, including modern Georgia Sen. Shawn Still, a Norcross Republican, and David Shafer, a former Georgia Republican Party chairman and state legislator.
Additionally, 20 jurors voted to indict three people who avoided indictment in August: Flynn, Trump top adviser Boris Epstein and Georgia lawyer Lin Wood, who unsuccessfully challenged the 2020 presidential election results.
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