A report released on Friday revealed that a special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results recommended indictments against a much larger group than Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis ultimately charged, including one current and two former U.S. senators.
The nine-page report showed jurors recommended charges against 39 number of people, compared to the 18 who were charged along with former President Donald Trump. The names of those not indicted included Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of Georgia, former U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Parts of the report had been released in February, but a judge had delayed the release of any recommendations for specific charges against specific people until after last month’s indictment. While most of the intrigue in the inner workings of the case has diminished with the filing of charges, it is notable that the special grand jury recommended many people who were not actually indicted.
They include Graham, former Georgia U.S. Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Graham did not immediately return messages seeking comment on Friday. A lawyer who has represented Flynn did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
The panel spent seven months hearing from some 75 witnesses before completing a report in December with recommendations for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on charges related to attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Willis had said she needed the panel’s subpoena power to compel the testimony of witnesses who might otherwise not have been willing to appear.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the partial release of the report in February but declined to immediately release the panel’s recommendations on who should or should not be prosecuted. The judge said at the time that he wanted to protect people’s due process rights.
McBurney said in a new order filed Aug. 28 that the due process concerns were moot since a regular grand jury has indicted Trump and 18 other people under the state’s anti-racketeering law. All have pleaded not guilty.
Many of those indicted — including former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — are known to have testified before the special grand jury. Trump, the early front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was never called and did not appear before the panel.
The parts of the report previously released in February included its introduction and conclusion, as well as a section in which the grand jurors expressed concerns that one or more witnesses may have lied under oath and urged prosecutors to seek charges for perjury. The panel’s foreperson had said in news interviews that the special grand jurors had recommended that numerous people be indicted.
(AP)
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That’s what life has become in an America with a two-tiered justice system, where someone’s political affiliation can determine whether they’ll be held accountable for committing a crime.
They should ALL be held responsible.
Unless there were very solid grounds for this potential indictment for every single person on the list it is just another nail in the coffin on the USDOJ.
What did U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia do that there was a recommendation of indicting them? In the case of Loeffler it was merely her attendance at a meeting urging Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to convene a special session of the legislature to LOOK into getting signature verifications of absentee ballots. That is the type of thing to get indicted for in the USSR
Why not indet all republcans
Does anyone buy this sham?
@jackk
Your hypocrisy cracks me up.
There’s no way any Republican would have gotten away with what Hunter has gotten away with so far.
Glad you’re finally admitting that there’s a two tiered justice system here. Now you just need to get your facts straight.
I’ve been davening for you and the other loony libs here thay you should all do תשובה before it gets too late and that you shouldn’t cause anyone else to be נחשל before that.
After your most recent posts I’m going to have in mind for you to have a רפואה שלמה as well.
Reply to Yiddish, why stop there. Indict all of us that have no party affiliation. The Democrat party is going down the authoritarian slope that if you are not with me, you are against me. Evil demagoguery.
The report does not provide the evidence the Grand Jury used to recommend indictments.So nobody knows why they were on it .
In the spirit of מחשבה כמעשה:- Clearly all 39 of them should be counter-suing this most heinous despicable savage D.A.
“where someone’s political affiliation can determine whether they’ll be held accountable for committing a crime.”
True. Had any of us done what Trump has done we would be doing years of hard time in prison.
It’s like the anarchist in Israel. It’s the liberal party who’ve changed their name to Democrat.
“Why not indet all republcans”
Great idea!….While your at it, why not indict them too.
Dr,
Thanks. I need all the teffilos, I can get.
Ksiva vchasima tova.
I am glad you recognized my sarcasm.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is not of Georgia but of Tennessee
Lindsey Graham is of SC, as it states under the photo, not Georgia as it states in the article.
I was mixed up