Two women who allegedly helped Donald Trump’s team interfere with Georgia voting machines may be the next to accept a plea deal and testify, a former prosecutor has said.
The pair, Cathy Latham and Misty Hampton, were allegedly involved in the plot on January 7, 2021, to unlawfully copy voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia.
Katie Phang, a former Florida prosecutor and the host of The Katie Phang Show on MSNBC, said she believes that pressure will now be on Latham and Hampton, given that Scott Hall and Sidney Powell, two people involved in the Coffee County election tampering, have already pleaded guilty and agreed to testify.
“With Scott Hall and Sidney Powell both having pleaded guilty, and admitting to their roles, it would seem likely that Latham and Hampton, who are their alleged co-conspirators in those counts, would be next up,” Phang wrote on Civil Discourse, the legal blog of attorney and commentator Joyce Vance, on Substack.
Newsweek has sought comment from attorneys representing Trump, Hampton and Latham.
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Latham is the former chair of the Republican Party in Coffee County. She is allegedly one of the alternate electors who wrongly signed off on Trump’s victory in Georgia, and she is also accused of allowing unauthorized forensics experts from the digital company SullivanStrickler to illegally download data from the voting machines in Coffee County. She was seen on security camera footage taking a selfie with one of the SullivanStrickler staff as they were doing their job.
During a deposition, she repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Hampton is a former elections director in Coffee County and was present when the forensic experts from SullivanStrickler were allowed to copy the voting machine data.
Phang wrote that Hampton and Latham are “fairly low-level on the importance food chain.”
“I would not expect them to plead to a felony; I think they will plead to misdemeanors, like Hall and Powell did,” Phang wrote.
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“Latham and Hampton would have to cooperate as a condition of their probation. And Latham’s appeal to the Eleventh Circuit …would be dropped, which is inconsequential as she would lose regardless.”
Sidney Powell, a Trump-supporting attorney, was the second person charged in Georgia to plead guilty to election tampering. In late September, bail bondsman Scott Hall admitted to interfering with the Coffee County voting machines. Hall and Powell must also testify if prosecutors call them as witnesses against Trump and any of his co-defendants.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case.
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