The former Atlanta-based federal prosecutor who found no evidence to support false claims of voter fraud in Georgia and resigned under pressure from former President Donald Trump testified Monday in front of a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Former U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak said claims made by the former president's attorney Rudy Giuliani were "false" and that his replacement also found no evidence to support numerous claims seeking to undermine Georgia's election results.
The main claims made by Giuliani baselessly alleged that "suitcases of ballots" were illegally counted in Fulton County at State Farm Arena, and that election workers intentionally scanned batches of ballots multiple times to alter the election results.
Pak said then-Attorney General William Barr asked him to investigate the claims before Barr might have to discuss it at the White House.
"We found that the suitcase full of ballots, the alleged black suitcase that was being seen pulled from under the table, was actually in an official lockbox where ballots were kept safe," he said. "Unfortunately, during a Senate hearing, Mr. Giuliani only played a clip that showed them pulling out the official ballot box from under the table and referring to that as a smoking gun of fraud in Fulton County. But in actuality, in review of the entire video, it showed that that was actually an official ballot box that was kept underneath the tables."
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