A look at the 19 people charged in the Georgia indictment connected to Trump election scheme

ATLANTA — Donald Trump and 18 different associates have been charged Monday in Georgia as a part of a sweeping indictment alleging they schemed to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss and cease the peaceable transition of energy.

The indictment, introduced by Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis, follows an investigation that lasted greater than two years and marks the fourth prison case introduced towards the previous president.

These charged in Monday’s indictment face a slew of costs, together with racketeering, violating the oath of a public officer, forgery, false statements and different offenses. Prosecutors say they need to all give up to authorities by Aug. 25.

Right here’s a take a look at the 19 defendants charged within the indictment:

DONALD TRUMP: Then-President Donald Trump fixated on Georgia after the 2020 basic election, refusing to simply accept his slim loss within the state and making unfounded assertions of widespread election fraud there. He additionally referred to as prime state officers, together with Gov. Brian Kemp, to induce them to discover a technique to reverse his loss within the state. In a Jan. 2, 2021, cellphone name with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Trump instructed the state’s prime elections official might assist “discover” the votes wanted for him to win the state. Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis opened an investigation into potential unlawful makes an attempt to affect the election shortly after a recording of that decision was made public.

RUDY GIULIANI: Throughout a number of legislative hearings on the Georgia Capitol in December 2020, the previous New York mayor and Trump lawyer promoted unsupported allegations of widespread election fraud in Georgia. Prosecutors have stated Rudy Giuliani was additionally concerned a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans function pretend electors, falsely swearing that Trump had received the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and certified” electors.

JOHN EASTMAN: A former dean of Chapman College regulation college in Southern California, John Eastman, one among Trump’s legal professionals, was deeply concerned in a few of his efforts to stay in energy after the 2020 election. He wrote a memo arguing that Trump might stay in energy if then-Vice President Mike Pence overturned the outcomes of the election throughout a joint session of Congress the place electoral votes can be counted. That plan included putting in a slate of “alternate” electors in seven battleground states, together with Georgia, who would falsely certify that Trump had received their states.

MARK MEADOWS: Trump’s chief of employees visited Cobb County, within the Atlanta suburbs, whereas state investigators have been conducting an audit of the signatures on absentee poll envelopes in December 2020. Mark Meadows obtained the cellphone variety of the chief investigator for the secretary of state’s workplace, Frances Watson, and handed it alongside to Trump, who referred to as her. He additionally participated within the Jan. 2, 2021, cellphone name between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

SIDNEY POWELL: A lawyer and staunch Trump ally, Sidney Powell was a part of a bunch who met on the South Carolina dwelling of conservative lawyer Lin Wooden in November 2020 “for the aim of exploring choices to affect the outcomes of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere,” prosecutors have stated. Wooden, who’s licensed in Georgia, stated Powell requested him to assist discover Georgia residents to function plaintiffs in lawsuits contesting the state’s election outcomes. Moreover, emails and paperwork obtained via subpoenas in an unrelated lawsuit have proven that Powell was concerned in arranging for a pc forensics group to journey to rural Espresso County, about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, to repeat information and software program from elections gear there in January 2021.

KENNETH CHESEBRO: Prosecutors have stated Kenneth Chesebro, an lawyer, labored with Georgia Republicans within the weeks after the November 2020 election on the path of Trump’s marketing campaign. Chesebro labored on the coordination and execution of a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans signal a certificates declaring falsely that Trump received and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and certified” electors.

JEFFREY CLARK: A U.S. Justice Division official who championed Trump’s false claims of election fraud, Jeffrey Clark introduced colleagues with a draft letter pushing Georgia officers to convene a particular legislative session on the election outcomes, in keeping with testimony earlier than the U.S. Home committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Clark wished the letter despatched, however Justice Division superiors refused.

JENNA ELLIS: The lawyer appeared with Rudy Giuliani at a Dec. 3, 2020, listening to hosted by state Republican lawmakers on the Georgia Capitol throughout which false allegations of election fraud have been made. Jenna Ellis additionally wrote at the least two authorized memos to Trump and his attorneys advising that Pence ought to “disregard licensed electoral school votes from Georgia and different purportedly ‘contested’ states” when Congress met to certify the election outcomes on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors have stated.

RAY SMITH: A Georgia-based lawyer, Ray Smith was concerned in a number of lawsuits difficult the outcomes of the 2020 election in Georgia. He additionally gathered witnesses to offer testimony earlier than Georgia legislative subcommittee hearings held in December 2020 on alleged points with the state’s election.

ROBERT CHEELEY: A Georgia lawyer, Robert Cheeley introduced video clips to legislators of election employees on the State Farm Area in Atlanta and alleged the employees have been counting votes twice or typically thrice. He spoke to the lawmakers after Giuliani.

MICHAEL ROMAN: A former White Home aide who served because the director of Trump’s election day operations, Michael Roman was concerned in efforts to place forth a set of faux electors after the 2020 election.

DAVID SHAFER: The chairman of the Georgia GOP, Shafer was one among 16 state Republicans who met on the state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, to signal a certificates declaring falsely that Trump had received and likewise declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and certified” electors. He additionally joined Trump in a lawsuit difficult the certification of the 2020 election in Georgia.

SHAWN STILL: He was one among 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificates falsely stating that Trump had received the state and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and certified” electors. Shawn Nonetheless was the finance chairman for the state GOP in 2020 and served as a Georgia delegate to the Republican Nationwide Conference that yr. He was elected to the Georgia state Senate in November 2022 and represents a district in Atlanta’s suburbs.

STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE: Prosecutors say Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a pastor, labored with others to attempt to strain Georgia election employee Ruby Freeman and her daughter after Trump and his allies falsely accused them of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase through the vote rely. Lee allegedly knocked on Freeman’s door, horrifying her and inflicting her to name 911 thrice, prosecutors stated in a courtroom submitting final yr.

HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD: Also called Willie Lewis Floyd III, he served as director of Black Voices for Trump, and is accused of recruiting Lee to rearrange a gathering with Freeman and Chicago-based publicist Trevian Kutti.

TREVIAN C. KUTTI: Prosecutors allege publicist Trevian C. Kutti claimed to have excessive degree regulation enforcement connections. They are saying Freeman met with Kutti at a police precinct, the place she introduced Floyd into the dialog on a speakerphone. Prosecutors say Kutti introduced herself as somebody who might assist Freeman however then pressured her to falsely confess to election fraud.

CATHY LATHAM: One in all 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificates falsely stating that Trump had received the state and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and certified” electors, Cathy Latham was additionally chair of the Espresso County Republican Social gathering. She was on the county elections workplace for a lot of the day on Jan. 7, 2021, and welcomed a pc forensics group that arrived to repeat software program and information from the county’s election gear in what the secretary of state’s workplace has stated was “unauthorized entry” to the machines.

SCOTT GRAHAM HALL: An Atlanta-area bail bondsman, Scott Graham Corridor was allegedly concerned in commandeering voting info that was the property of Dominion Voting Programs from Espresso County, a small south Georgia jurisdiction. Additionally charged within the scheme have been Powell, Latham and former county elections supervisor Misty Hampton.

MISTY HAMPTON: She was the elections director in Espresso County. Misty Hampton was current within the county elections workplace on Jan. 7, 2021, when a pc forensics group copied software program and information from the county’s election gear. She additionally allowed two different males who had been lively in efforts to query the 2020 election outcomes to entry the elections workplace later that month and to spend hours inside with the gear.

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Corrects Stephen Cliffgard Lee entry to replicate that he’s accused of making an attempt to strain Ruby Freeman and her daughter, not Freeman’s mom.

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Cooper reported from Phoenix.