Fulton County DA Fani Willis accused of illegally recording phone call
Harrison Floyd’s attorney confirms accusation to CBS News.
By Tim Darnell
April 4, 2024
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is being accused of illegally recording a phone call between her and one of the defense lawyers involved in her sprawling racketeering indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Christopher Kachouroff, who is representing Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd, is alleging Willis recorded a phone call between her and one of Kachouroff’s Maryland-based colleagues without his knowledge. That would be a violation of Maryland’s Wiretap Act, under which recording a private conversation without consent from both parties is punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
Kachouroff told CBS News Willis recorded a phone call with his colleague who was in Maryland at the time without their consent. Kachouroff said they found out about the recording because an anonymous citizen found it in an open records request and sent it to him.
Late Wednesday night, a conversation between Kachouroff and columnist Phil Holloway was posted by Floyd on his X (formerly known as Twitter) account:
https://twitter.com/hw_floyd/status/1775724729300602990
Georgia is a one-party consent state, and it’s unclear where Willis was located when the alleged phone call was made. Atlanta News First is reaching out to Willis’ office for comment.
Floyd, who once headed an organization called Black Voices for Trump, is one of 14 remaining co-defendants in Willis’ historic indictment of Trump.
Floyd, the only co-defendant who was actually jailed in racketeering indictment, is also requesting his trial be moved to Coffee County, arguing he cannot receive a fair trial in Fulton County. Coffee County is about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, and is where prosecutors allege voter information data was copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment to an unidentified lawyer associated with the Trump campaign.
Floyd was one of the last Trump co-defendants to surrender at the Fulton County jail, and the only one who did not arrange a bond settlement before turning himself in.
Trump is facing 91 felony counts in four criminal cases in Washington, New York, Florida and Georgia and could potentially be looking at years in prison if convicted.
In Georgia, Trump is charged alongside others — including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — with violating the state’s anti-racketeering law by scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss.
Willis’ indictments, handed down in August 2023, accuses Trump and his allies of suggesting Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, could find enough votes for him to win the battleground state; harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud; and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of voters and appoint a new slate of electors favorable to Trump.
Four of the original co-defendants have reached plea deals with Fulton County prosecutors: Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall and Kenneth Chesebro.
Also on Thursday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee upheld the indictment against Trump after the former president’s attorneys were hoping to have his charges dismissed under the First Amendment’s freedom of speech stipulations.
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