The sprawling 2023 racketeering indictment case against President Donald Trump and a number of allies for his or her efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat in Georgia will continue and is now in the hands of a new prosecutor.
The case was assigned in September to Peter Skandalakis, Director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, a bipartisan collaboration of six district attorneys and three solicitors normal from throughout the state.
Skandalakis beforehand stated he may additionally take the case himself if he couldn’t discover one other prosecutor keen to take it on. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had launched the case, however was eliminated after a authorized combat over her authority.
“This morning, an Administrative Order appointing me to the case of State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al. was filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Fulton County,” Skandalakis wrote in an announcement Friday morning.
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