Far-right attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges against her in Fulton County, Georgia, for helping former President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election, becoming the second defendant in the 19-defendant case to take a plea deal one day before her trial was scheduled to begin.
Attorney Sidney Powell, leaves the Federal Court in Washington on June 24, 2021.
Powell was charged on six counts stemming from her efforts to overturn the 2020 election, largely for her role in aiding a breach of election equipment in Coffee County, Georgia.
The attorney took a negotiated plea deal, in which she’ll be sentenced to six years of probation, a $6,000 fine and pay $2,700 in restitution.
She will also have to write a letter of apology to the people of Georgia, which she already submitted to the court Thursday, and “truthfully testify” during trials of her co-defendants.
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