In the US state of Georgia, an election subversion case, a former attorney for Donald Trump entered a guilty plea.
In an agreement with Fulton County prosecutors, Kenneth Chesebro is the third of 19 co-defendants to enter a guilty plea.
In order to rig the 2020 election, he is suspected of submitting a bogus list of pro-Trump electors in Georgia and other states.
Those accused in the lawsuit include Mr. Trump. He has asserted his innocence.
One day after Sidney Powell, another ex-Trump attorney, confessed guilt in the matter, Chesebro entered into a plea agreement.
Scott Hall, a bail bondsman and the third co-defendant, reached a plea agreement with the prosecution in late September.
Chesebro entered a plea of guilty to one felony count of conspiring to file fictitious documents.
On Friday, as jury selection for his case got underway, he reached a compromise with the prosecutors. The trial won’t proceed any further.
The former defendants will have to provide sworn testimony in upcoming trials in accordance with the plea agreements.
Chesebro is subject to a $5,000 (£4,109) fine, five years of probation, and community work. Along with writing an apologetic letter to Georgian citizens, he must also disclose records and other information pertinent to the case.
A total of seven charges, including conspiracy to conduct forgery and conspiracy to commit impersonating a public official, were brought against him in the Georgia election interference case.
Chesebro is an appellate lawyer who started out helping the Trump campaign in Wisconsin after the election before moving on to other states that Mr. Trump lost.
He is accused of participating in the creation of a scheme to provide phoney elector slates for Mr. Trump.
Particularly, it is claimed that he penned a document outlining the steps electors in places like Georgia should take in order to convene and vote for Mr. Trump.
“The chips are falling and falling on Trump,” Ms. Kaufman told the BBC.
Chesebro’s guilty plea and promise to testify truthfully against his co-defendants is the largest blow to their ongoing defence, according to Chesebro. Chesebro served as something of a legal team captain for Trump and frequently served as the lone conduit between him and the other conspirators, according to her.
The former president is accused of influencing state officials to overturn the results of the presidential election on a total of 13 felony counts, including racketeering.
He has categorically denied all wrongdoing and called the investigation politically motivated.