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Raffensperger appears in front of election probe grand jury

Georgia’s top elections official appeared Thursday before a special grand jury investigating whether former President Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in Georgia.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spent five hours at the Fulton County courthouse and it’s unclear whether his testimony concluded Thursday or if he will be called back. The special grand jury will not issue indictments, but is meant to further the investigation and make recommendations to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who will then decide whether to seek an indictment from a regular grand jury.

It’s not clear exactly what charges Willis could choose to pursue against Trump or anyone else.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.