Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis agrees to plea deal in Georgia election interference case

Jenna Ellis, an attorney who previously represented former President Donald Trump, recently accepted a plea agreement in the 2020 Georgia election interference case.

On Tuesday, Ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings, becoming the fourth of 19 defendants in the case to do so. The charges were brought against the defendants in August by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Scott Hall, a bail bondsman from Atlanta, was the first to take a plea agreement from prosecutors last month. Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro also accepted plea deals.

Ellis, 38, was sentenced to five years probation and 100 hours of community service. She was also ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution and write a letter of apology to Georgia voters. Additionally, Ellis agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants in the case, including Trump. Hall, Powell, and Chesebro also agreed to testify at the trial of other co-defendants as part of their plea deals.

Prosecutors claimed that Ellis and Rudy Giuliani disseminated misinformation about the 2020 election.

"The false statements were made with reckless disregard of the truth and with conspicuous purpose to avoid learning the truth," Fulton County prosecutor Daysha Young stated.

"The defendant attended and abetted Giuliani [and] Smith in making these false statements by assisting with the execution of the December 3, 2020, Senate Judiciary Committee meeting," Young added.

Ellis was accused of participating in an unlawful conspiracy to keep Trump in office.

"In the frenetic pace of attempting to raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia, I failed to do my due diligence," Ellis stated during her plea hearing. "I believe in and I value election integrity. If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse."

"As an attorney who is also a Christian, I take my responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously, and I endeavor to be a person of sound moral and ethical character in all of my dealings," she continued. "In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, I believed that challenging the results on behalf of President Trump should be pursued in a just and legal way."

Trial dates for Trump and the 14 remaining co-defendants have not yet been set.

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