
Jenna Ellis, an attorney, has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election meddling case.
In the extensive racketeering case centered on attempts to keep then-President Donald Trump in office following his loss to Joe Biden in 2020, Ellis is the fourth defendant to enter a guilty plea.
Just prior to the start of their trial, attorneys Kenneth Chesebro & Sidney Powell filed guilty pleas last week. A bail bondsman named Scott Hall entered a guilty plea in September.
Ellis entered a plea of guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings in exchange for truthful testimony at subsequent trials. Racketeering was one of the two counts against her.
The plea agreement also stipulates 100 hours of community service, five years of probation, $5,000 in restitution to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, and a letter of apology to the people of Georgia.
Ellis’ accusation originates from a subcommittee hearing held by Georgia’s Senate Judiciary Committee on December 3, 2020, during which Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Ray Smith delivered a laundry list of flimsy allegations of widespread election fraud.
Tens of thousands of juveniles, convicts, and deceased individuals, according to Guliani and Smith, both co-defendants in the Georgia case. Ellis admitted to helping this testimony, which the prosecution claims was done to persuade the legislature to ignore Biden’s victory in Georgia. Ellis pleaded guilty to this charge.
At the Tuesday plea hearing, prosecutor Daysha Young stated that the false claims were made with a careless disregard for the truth.
Ellis sobbed as she requested to address the court.
“What I did not do, but ought to have done, your honor, was making sure that whatever the other lawyers alleged to be true were actually in fact true,” said Ellis. “I didn’t complete my homework because I was moving at such a fast clip trying to dispute the election in various places, including Georgia. Election integrity is something I respect. When it came to these post-election problems, I wouldn’t have agreed to defend Donald Trump if I knew then what I know now.
A Colorado judge censured Ellis earlier this year after she admitted making numerous misleading comments concerning the 2020 presidential election.
Judge Scott McAfee of Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court has not yet scheduled a trial date for the remaining co-defendants, which includes Trump.
The former president’s federal election meddling trial is set to start in March, thus it is unlikely that a Georgia trial will start before next spring.