Court Website Publishes, Takes Down List of Trump Charges

List quickly removed from Georgia website included racketeering counts
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Aug 14, 2023 2:48 PM CDT
Georgia Court Website Briefly Publishes Trump Charges
Multiple vehicles are seen near barricades at the Fulton County courthouse, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, in Atlanta.   (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

A list of criminal charges in Georgia against former President Donald Trump briefly appeared Monday on a Fulton County website, but prosecutors said Trump had not been indicted in a long-running investigation of the 2020 presidential election. A Fulton County grand jury began hearing from witnesses Monday. Shortly after 12pm, Reuters reported on a list of several criminal charges to be brought against Trump, including state racketeering counts, conspiracy to commit false statements, and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer.

Reuters, which later published a copy of the document, said the filing was taken down quickly afterward. A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the report of charges being filed was "inaccurate," but declined to comment further, the AP reports. Prosecutors were widely expected to present those counts to the grand jury. It was unclear why the charges were detailed in a filing while grand jurors were still hearing from witnesses.

For two and a half years, Willis has been investigating actions taken by Trump and others in their efforts to overturn his narrow loss in Georgia to Joe Biden. Former Democratic state Sen. Jen Jordan, who had been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury, said as she left the Fulton County courthouse late Monday morning that she had been questioned for about 40 minutes. Former Democratic state Rep. Bee Nguyen also confirmed that she testified. (In a Truth Social post, Trump appeared to warn another witness against testifying.)

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