LawProf-Triggered Criminal Investigation Now Includes Senator Graham

WASHINGTON - Feb. 12, 2021 - PRLog -- The criminal investigation of telephone calls aimed at changing the outcome of the vote count in Georgia, which was triggered by a law professor's complaint, and originally focused on former president Donald Trump's telephone calls, has now been expended to include South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, who had also made a call which appears to violate one or more criminal statutes.

This creates a clear conflict of interest for Graham, who is supposed to be serving as an impartial "juror" in the impeachment trial in the Senate, since the impeachment charge against Trump includes "a phone call on January 2, 2021,"

This charge is very similar to possible crimes by Graham, who has admitted to likewise calling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about possibly changing the presidential vote count in Georgia.

Raffensperger said Graham urged him to throw out mail ballots in certain counties, although Graham claimed that he was merely seeking to better understand how the state verified mail ballots.

It's not at all surprising that Fulton DA Fani Willis would look into this very similar telephone call from Graham, says John Banzhaf, the public interest law professor whose formal complaints have now triggered criminal investigations of Trump's phone calls by both Willis and Raffensperger, since Graham's call has been public knowledge for some time, and an opinion piece in the Washington Post actually called for a criminal investigation.

Interestingly, a spokesman for Raffensperger said that his office would not be investigating Graham's call since there may be no audio recording of it.

But this has not stopped Willis from investigating it, since Raffensperger publicly described its contents months ago.

Also, suggests Banzhaf, it would be very strange that a telephone call between these two high-level political figures would not be recorded or, at the very least, that extensive notes would not have been taken.

Banzhaf's formal complaints to Willis and to Raffensperger suggested that telephone calls to officials in Georgia aimed at improperly changing the election results might violate at least three criminal statutes.

DA Willis said, in a letter to Raffensperger and other top Georgia officials, that she is also looking into "solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local governmental bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to the election's administration."

Both investigations are important because a presidential pardon can not help persons changed or convicted under state criminal statutes, suggests Banzhaf.
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