Who Has Been Charged in the Election Inquiry in Georgia
The indictment Georgia prosecutors filed Aug. 14 in an election interference case targeting former President Donald J. Trump and his associates includes 41 criminal charges against 19 people who are accused of helping him seek to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
[Read the annotated indictment.]
Have not yet pleaded
Have entered pleas
The 19 people facing charges
Donald J. Trump
Latest: Booked on Aug. 24
The former president faces 13 criminal charges in the Georgia election meddling case. Those charges came after he was indicted on dozens of other counts across three separate cases earlier this year.
Facing 13 charges
Rudolph W. Giuliani
Lawyer
Latest: Booked on Aug. 23
The former mayor of New York first made his name as a U.S. attorney who used racketeering charges to pursue organized crime. Now he himself faces a racketeering charge for his central role in the plot to keep Mr. Trump in power.
Facing 13 charges
John C. Eastman
Lawyer
Latest: Booked on Aug. 22
A key legal architect of the effort to keep Mr. Trump in power using bogus slates of Trump electors in swing states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Facing nine charges
Ray Smith III
Lawyer
Latest: Booked on Aug. 23
An attorney working with the Trump team who advanced false claims at a legislative hearing in Georgia.
Facing 12 charges
Sidney Powell
Lawyer
Latest: Pleaded guilty on Oct. 19
One of the most prominent lawyers advancing false claims of vote fraud and advising Mr. Trump to fight his election loss. She promised to “release the Kraken.”
Facing seven charges
Kenneth Chesebro
Lawyer
Latest: Pleaded guilty on Oct. 20
One of the lawyers who played a central role in developing the idea of having Trump supporters pretend to be electors from states won by Mr. Biden.
Facing seven charges
Mark Meadows
Former White House chief of staff
Latest: Booked on Aug. 24
Mr. Meadows was deeply involved in efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power. During a visit to Georgia, he showed up at a vote-counting facility and put Mr. Trump on the phone with a top state elections investigator.
Facing two charges
Michael Roman
Trump campaign staff member
Latest: Booked on Aug. 25
A senior Trump campaign staff member who played a role in the fake electors plot.
Facing seven charges
Jeffrey Clark
Former Justice Department official
Latest: Booked on Aug. 25
A former senior Justice Department official who caused outrage among his colleagues by advancing false election fraud claims and seeking to intervene in the presidential election in Georgia.
Facing two charges
Misty Hampton
Coffee County elections supervisor
Latest: Booked on Aug. 25
A former election supervisor of Coffee County, Ga., who is suspected of helping Trump supporters access the county’s voting equipment.
Facing seven charges
Robert Cheeley
Lawyer
Latest: Booked on Aug. 25
A longtime Georgia plaintiff’s attorney, he has been a lead lawyer in litigation related to the 2020 election. His indictment follows false assertions at a legislative hearing where he claimed election workers were double- and triple-counting votes.
Facing 10 charges
Jenna Ellis
Lawyer
Latest: Booked on Aug. 23
Ms. Ellis said she was part of an “elite strike force team” of lawyers who appeared at public hearings and amplified the president’s false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Facing two charges
Cathy Latham
Fake elector
Latest: Booked on Aug. 23
Ms. Latham is a former head of the Republican Party in rural Coffee County, where she was involved in an effort by pro-Trump forces to copy sensitive election software in January 2021. Ms. Latham was also one of 16 fake electors in Georgia who cast their electoral votes for Mr. Trump.
Facing 11 charges
David Shafer
Fake elector
Latest: Booked on Aug. 23
A former state senator and the former chair of the Georgia Republican Party, Mr. Shafer, portraying himself as the “chairperson” of the Electoral College of Georgia, filed 16 fake electoral votes for Mr. Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Facing eight charges
Shawn Still
Fake elector
Latest: Booked on Aug. 25
A Georgia state senator who was one of the bogus electors who sought to keep Mr. Trump in power after his loss to Mr. Biden.
Facing seven charges
Trevian Kutti
Publicist
Latest: Booked on Aug. 25
Ms. Kutti used to be publicist for Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. Prosecutors said she took part in a plot to pressure a Fulton County election worker to falsely admit to committing fraud on Election Day in 2020.
Facing three charges
Stephen C. Lee
Pastor
Latest: Booked on Aug. 25
A Lutheran pastor from Illinois who is among those implicated in efforts to intimidate Atlanta election workers.
Facing five charges
Willie Lewis Floyd III
Former organizer of pro-Trump group
Latest: Booked on Aug. 24
A former mixed martial arts fighter who once led a group called Black Voices for Trump and is among those implicated in efforts to intimidate Atlanta election workers.
Facing three charges
Scott Hall
Bail bondsman
Latest: Pleaded guilty on Sept. 29
An Atlanta-area Trump supporter and bail bondsman who took part in a plan by Trump allies to access election equipment in rural Coffee County, Ga.