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List of alleged Georgia election racketeers is a list of people directly involved in the Georgia election racketeering prosecution including those who have pled guilty, the remaining defendants, and unindicted co-conspirators.
4 of the 19 individuals who were indicted have pled guilty as of October 24, 2023.
The 15 remaining defendants [7] in the indictment [8] and some of the allegations against them [6] are:
The following are mainly indicted for attempting to influence a Fulton County election worker:
The following are mainly indicted for breaching Coffee County election equipment:
There is overlap with the co-conspirators mentioned in the federal indictment of Trump issued two weeks earlier. In the federal indictment, Giuliani was listed as co-conspirator No. #1, Eastman was #2, Powell was #3, Clark was #4, and Chesebro was #5. All five of these people, though not charged in the federal prosecution, are charged as co-defendants in the Georgia prosecution. (Co-conspirator No. #6 in the federal indictment has not yet been conclusively identified by the public.)
The indictment references 30 "unindicted co-conspirators" who allegedly participated in some of the same criminal activities with the 19 defendants. These 30 people are not named in the indictment, but referred to by number. CNN, Just Security , The Washington Post and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution independently cross-referenced details in the indictment with already public information which does name the involved individuals, allowing many of them to be identified. [11] [12] [13] [14]
The special grand jury recommended 39 people be charged, of which only 19 were actually charged in the indictment. Many of the others have been identified as unindicted co-conspirators: Epshteyn (3), Jones (8), Brannan (9), Consiglio and Fisher (10 and 11), Amick, Carver, Downey, Godwin, Hennessy, and Yadav (2 and 12–19). The remaining people may or may not be an unidentified co-conspirator listed above: [20] [21]
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