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Who are the Trump allies and advisors indicted in the Georgia election scheme?

Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell (right) are among those facing criminal charges
Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell (right) are among those facing criminal charges

Former US president Donald Trump again stands accused of illegally trying to overturn the 2020 election results to stay in power.

But for the first time some of his allies and closest advisers also face criminal charges for their roles in the alleged scheme.

Already charged by a federal grand jury in Washington with orchestrating a plot to overturn the election, Mr Trump is the lead defendant in a parallel case in Georgia now, charged with racketeering and other crimes along with aides and associates listed below.

Not listed are nine lesser-known Georgia officials charged with additional crimes ranging from perjury to conspiracy to commit computer theft in addition to racketeering.


Mark Meadows

Mr Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is alleged to have made false statements about the election

Mark Meadows, who went from being one of Mr Trump's top Republican allies in the US House of Representatives to his White House chief of staff, attended White House meetings related to attempts to undo Mr Trump's election defeat.

The indictment alleges he helped to fuel the conspiracy by making false statements about the election and conspired with Mr Trump to develop a plan to disrupt and delay the congressional certification of the electoral votes on 6 January, 2021.

It also alleges he tried to pressure a chief investigator in the Georgia secretary of state's office, Frances Watson, to speed up the Fulton County signature verification and that he took part in a phone call in which Mr Trump pushed Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to reverse his narrow loss in the state.

Mr Raffensperger declined to do so.

An attorney for Mr Meadows did not respond to a request for comment.


Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani is alleged to have made a number of false statements about election fraud

Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's former personal lawyer, played a prominent public role in the Trump campaign's efforts to push false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

The former New York City mayor was involved in litigation that was rejected by courts and falsely claimed in testimony at local hearings in Georgia that he was in possession of evidence proving election fraud.

The indictment alleges he made numerous false statements about election fraud, including to officials in other states such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, in a failed bid to convince them to approve an alternative slate of electors to keep Mr Trump in power.

He and other Trump allies are also accused of making false statements to Georgia politicians about the election, including claims about vote counting errors by Dominion voting machines.

Mr Giuliani's attorney declined to comment.


John Eastman

John Eastman is accused of taking part in a plot to appoint fake electors

Attorney John Eastman represented Mr Trump in a long-shot lawsuit to overturn voting results in four states in 2020.

He has been under scrutiny by both US Special Counsel Jack Smith's office and state prosecutors in Georgia for penning a series of legal memos which claimed that former vice president Mike Pence could reject electors from certain states to deny Democrat Joe Biden a majority of Electoral College votes.

The indictment in Georgia alleges he was part of a plot to appoint fake electors.

His attorney did not respond to a request for comment.


Jeffrey Bossert Clark

Jeffrey Bossert Clark was named as a co-conspirator in the federal indictment against Donald Trump

Jeffrey Clark is a former high-ranking Justice Department official.

In the waning days of the Trump administration, Mr Clark sought to persuade Mr Trump to oust Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen so that he could take over the department and help pursue Mr Trump's false claims by opening an investigation into voter fraud in Georgia and other swing states.

The federal indictment brought by Mr Smith against Mr Trump also appears to refer to Mr Clark as a co-conspirator.

Yesterday’s indictment cites Mr Clark's efforts to persuade Mr Rosen to submit a letter to Georgia falsely claiming the Justice Department had detected voting irregularities there.

His attorney did not respond to a request for comment.


Sidney Powell

Ms Powell is accused of tampering with electronic ballot markers and tabulators in Coffee County, Georgia

Attorney Sidney Powell played a leading role in promoting false fraud claims after the 2020 US election.

She was part of a team that filed unsuccessful lawsuits seeking to overturn election results and was sanctioned by a Michigan judge in one of those cases.

She became an adviser to Mr Trump on fraud claims after the election.

The indictment accuses her of tampering with electronic ballot markers and tabulators in Coffee County, Georgia, computer theft and unlawfully possessing ballots.

She could not be immediately reached for comment.


Jenna Ellis

Ms Ellis was allegedly part of an effort to get false electors appointed by lawmakers in four states

Attorney Jenna Ellis was part of the Trump campaign's legal team that falsely claimed widespread voter fraud in 2020.

The indictment alleges that Ms Ellis was part of an effort to get false electors appointed by state lawmakers in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The court papers assert that she wrote legal memos for Mr Trump on how Mike Pence on 6 January 2021, could delay the certification of Joe Biden's election win.

Ms Ellis agreed to be censured by a Colorado court after admitting to making false claims about voter fraud in March.

She could not be immediately reached for comment.


David Shafer

Mr Shafer is charged with mailing a fake certificate to a federal courthouse

The indictment alleges that David Shafer, who served as Georgia Republican Party chairman, played a key role in organising and executing the plan to submit an alternate slate of electors.

Mr Shafer is among those charged with mailing a fake certificate of the so-called Trump electors to a federal courthouse, as well as other offences tied to the fake elector plot.

He is also charged with making false statements to Fulton County investigators.

A lawyer for Mr Shafer did not have an immediate comment.


Michael Roman

Michael Roman, who worked for Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, is alleged to have played a role in orchestrating the fake elector plot.

The indictment claims he was in touch with those organising a meeting of the fake Trump electors in Georgia.

He could not be immediately reached for comment.


Kenneth Chesebro

Kenneth Chesebro is a Trump campaign attorney accused in the indictment of helping to devise a plan to submit fake slates of electors for Donald Trump to obstruct US congressional certification of the election results.

The indictment alleges he wrote a memo that provided instructions for how alternate slates of electors in states including Georgia should proceed to meet and cast votes for Mr Trump.

An attorney for Mr Chesebro did not respond to a request for comment.


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