A lawyer for one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia case claimed in a new interview that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office illegally recorded a phone call between her and a lawyer.
Christopher Kachouroff, an attorney representing Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd, told legal analyst Phil Holloway that the district attorney’s office recorded a call between her and one of his colleagues without their knowledge or consent.
The lawyer was asked about the legality of the recording with his colleagues, who are based in Maryland. “Oh yeah, it’s a felony in Maryland,” Mr. Kachouroff said.
In response to the allegations, Mr. Floyd wrote on social media that “it doesn’t matter where the call originated” because the attorney was located “physically in Maryland.” Ms. Willis, he added, did not get the lawyer’s consent to be recorded and “has committed multiple felonies and will be held accountable.”
Notably, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger reportedly recorded his own phone call with former President Trump in which the former president asked him about election fraud in the state and whether any ballots were missing during the November 2020 election. That phone call is at the center of the Willis case against the former president.
Mr. Floyd, President Trump, and 17 others were indicted in August by a Fulton County grand jury, accused of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Four defendants have pleaded guilty after reaching a deal with prosecutors and the rest have pleaded not guilty.
The charges against Mr. Floyd stem from allegations of harassment of Ruby Freeman, a Fulton County election worker who had been accused of election fraud. Prosecutors said that Mr. Floyd took part in a Jan. 4, 2021, conversation in which Ms. Freeman was told she “needed protection” and was pressured to make false statements about election fraud.
In addition to the charges in Georgia, Mr. Floyd also faces federal charges that accuse him of aggressively confronting two FBI agents sent to serve him with a grand jury subpoena.
Prosecutors last year had attempted to revoke his bond due to his posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, alleging “an effort to intimidate codefendants and witnesses, to communicate directly and indirectly with codefendants and witnesses, and to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.” His actions amounted to “intentional and flagrant violations” of his bond conditions, prosecutors wrote.
At the time, Mr. Kachouroff said Ms. Willis’s attempt to revoke his client’s bond was nonsense, adding, “She’s not going to get it granted.” He said he plans to file a motion to disqualify Willis from the prosecution “because of her personal animus against my client.”
The Epoch Times contacted the Fulton County district attorney’s office for comment Thursday.
Ms. Willis, meanwhile, has faced significant allegations that threaten to get her disqualified from the case, stemming from her relationship with a former special counsel in the Trump case. Both Ms. Willis and the prosecutor, Nathan Wade, confirmed the relationship but denied they engaged in a conflict of interest that allowed them to financially benefit from his employment in the district attorney’s office.
The judge in the case, Scott McAfee, issued an order last month telling Ms. Willis to either step down or that Mr. Wade had to leave the case. Hours later, Mr. Wade resigned from the office but said in a letter that the defendants were not able to prove the allegations that they engaged in a conflict of interest.
And Ms. Willis has shown no indication that she will recuse herself. During an interview with CNN after the judge’s order, she said that the case is still moving forward against President Trump and the other defendants.
