Atlanta DA Calls For Attorney In Georgia's Trump Probe To Be Removed
Credit: Fani Willis/Screen capture
April 19, 2023

Attorney Kimberly Debrow, who is representing ten of the Georgia fraudulent electors, has now come into the crosshairs of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as another scandal has emerged. Debrow, a former assistant DA, firm partner, and law professor in Georgia, was paid by the state's Republican party to represent fake electors, but she blew it.

According to the filing, Debrow was ordered by the court to offer her clients immunity, and Debrow's associate reportedly told the court that they had. However, under questioning by Fani Willis before the grand jury, the fake electors said they had received no immunity offer. Debrow might need to lawyer up. This sounds like disbarment territory.

The Washington Post reports:

An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating whether former president Donald Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia asked a judge to disqualify an attorney representing some of the Republican "fake electors" who signed certificates falsely stating Trump had won the election in Georgia, claiming the attorney did not tell her clients they had been offered immunity deals in the case.

In a court motion filed Tuesday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) asked for attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow, who represents 10 of the alternate Republican electors, to be removed from "any further participation" in the case. Prosecutors claim Debrow committed an ethical breach by representing so many clients simultaneously – including electors who have "made adverse claims" against other electors that Debrow represents, which prosecutors say is clear conflict of interest.

The filing cites interviews Fulton County prosecutors conducted on April 12 and April 14 with some of the electors represented by Debrow, which Debrow attended.
"During these interviews, some of the electors stated that another elector represented by Ms. Debrow committed acts that are violations of Georgia law and that they were not party to these additional acts," the filing states. "Additionally, in these interviews, some of the electors represented by Ms. Debrow told members of the investigation team that no potential offer of immunity was ever brought to them in 2022."

Prosecutors say those claims are in "direct conflict" with statements made in court last year by attorney Holly Pierson, who previously served as Debrow's co-counsel in the case. Pierson told a judge they had informed their clients about offers of immunity made by Willis's office as prosecutors sought their testimony before a special purpose grand jury impaneled to investigate alleged 2020 election interference.

Pierson now represents just one of the electors, Georgia Republican Party chair David Shafer, and she claims the prosecution allegations are “entirely false” and that the court “already has documents in its possession … that prove the DA’s allegations false.”

Pierson and Debrow might need an attorney. Does anyone know if Rudy Giuliani is free? How about the Kraken lady? Or are they looking for attorneys, too? It's hard to keep up.

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