Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is being accused of illegally recording a phone call between her and one of the defense lawyers involved in her sprawling racketeering indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Christopher Kachouroff, who is representing Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd, is alleging Willis recorded a phone call between her and one of Kachouroff's Maryland-based colleagues without his knowledge.
Floyd, who once headed an organization called Black Voices for Trump, is one of 14 remaining co-defendants in Willis' historic indictment of Trump.
Coffee County is about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, and is where prosecutors allege voter information data was copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment to an unidentified lawyer associated with the Trump campaign.
In Georgia, Trump is charged alongside others - including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows - with violating the state's anti-racketeering law by scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss.
Willis' indictments, handed down in August 2023, accuses Trump and his allies of suggesting Georgia's Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, could find enough votes for him to win the battleground state; harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud; and attempting to persuade Georgia lawmakers to ignore the will of voters and appoint a new slate of electors favorable to Trump.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee upheld the indictment against Trump after the former president's attorneys were hoping to have his charges dismissed under the First Amendment's freedom of speech stipulations.
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