FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - Four more defendants in Georgia's investigation into Donald Trump and his allies' alleged illegal plot to overturn the former president's 2020 election loss have surrendered at the Fulton County Jail.
Former Georgia GOP chairman and state legislator David Shafer and former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham turned themselves in to authorities at the jail early Wednesday morning.
Both have since been released on bond.
According to the Fulton County Jail docket, Georgia-based lawyer Ray Smith and Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro were booked into the jail Wednesday morning.
Shafer, Latham, Smith, and Chesebro are now among the six defendants accused by District Attorney Fani Willis of scheming to subvert the will of Georgia voters who have turned themselves in. Tuesday, Conservative attorney John Eastman and Atlanta-area bail bondsman Scott Hall surrendered to authorities.
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