Court documents and text messages obtained by 11Alive show Scott Hall was involved in the Coffee County breaches and other events in the Georgia 2020 election case
Scott Hall is one of the 18 defendants charged along with President Donald Trump for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. He pleaded guilty to charges against him on Friday in exchange for five years probation. He took a guilty plea to two counts of conspirac
office. you see on the surveillance video they spend hours inside this restricted room in the elections office. reporter: one of those inside the room, paul maggio, works for sullivan strickler. the data filler hired to gain access to the records. maggio was not indicted, and in a statement to cnn sullivan strickler said the firm was directed by the attorneys that hired them to obtain access to certain data and distribute it to certain individuals. and, quote, the firm had no reason to believe these attorneys would ask or direct sullivan strickler to do anything either improper or illegal. ultimately they were able to basically take an entire copy of the voting system with the idea that it would be used to point to vulnerabilities, point to different issues with the voting machines themselves, and the plan was to use that as evidence of widespread voter fraud. reporter: another shocking twist in the story the coffee county data breach would remain
tied to other operatives in the trump campaign, that it was anything beyond lower level people in coffee county? not initially, but there are allegations. and as you dig down deep, more is revealed. reporter: further revelations came when the fulton county d.a. s office charged kathy latham with 11 crimes ranging from impersonating a public officer to conspiracy. but more importantly, it connected the dots between coffee county and the white house. sidney powell was the one who ended up commissioning the services of sullivan strickler. her involvement is what exposes the broader trump team s involvement in coffee county. reporter: powell advocated seizing voting machines with an executive order from trump at an explosive white house meeting in december, 2020. another idea that was pitched during that meeting was raised by rudy giuliani, and he thought that they could coerce or convince local election officials to voluntarily give