Lawyer Sidney Powell has agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges in Georgia related to efforts to resolve the 2020 election. Powell was charged with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law alongside Trump and 17 others, and entered the plea one day before jury selection was set to begin. Initially charged with racketeering and six other counts, prosecutors allege that Powell participated in an unauthorized breach of election equipment in a rural Georgia county elections office. The deal marks a significant shift for prosecutors and Powell together, however.
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While prosecutors maintain Powell conspired with others to gain unauthorized access to election equipment, she was sentenced to six years of probation, which the New York Times accepts is “a significantly less-severe outcome than she would have faced if found guilty of the charges for which she was originally indicted”. Powell was fined $6,000 and agreed to pay $2,700 restitution to the State of Georgia, as well as write an apology letter “to the citizens of the state of Georgia.”
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