John Eastman, the lawyer charged by prosecutors in Georgia with helping to orchestrate Donald Trump’s fake elector scheme, has agreed to a $100,000 bond in the case, while attorneys for the former president were spotted Monday outside Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office.
Willis last week hit the former president, Eastman and 17 others with racketeering charges for allegedly scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the case, and gave the defendants until Aug. 25th to surrender voluntarily.
Members of Trump’s legal team — Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg and Jennifer Little — were spotted entering the Fulton County Courthouse around 2:10 p.m. ET, walking in the direction of the DA’s office. They declined to comment to reporters on their way in.
Other defendants have agreed to bond packages with prosecutors.
In a “consent bond order” listed on the Fulton County Superior Court website, Eastman and prosecutors agreed to a $100,000 bond on the charges Eastman is facing, including racketeering, criminal conspiracy and filing false documents.
Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee signed off on the agreement Monday morning, the filing shows.
Under the terms of the order, Eastman “shall report to pre-trial supervision every 30 days,” and “shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.”
The order also holds that Eastman “shall not communicate in any way, directly or indirectly, about the facts of this case with any person known to him to be a codefendant” or witness “in this case except through his or her counsel.”
Eastman lawyer Harvey Silverglate said in a statement last week that the charges against his client and the 18 other defendants in the case “set out activity that is political, but not criminal” and that Eastman should not have been charged.
McAfee signed off Monday on a similar agreement involving another defendant in the case, Scott Hall. Hall is charged with racketeering and six criminal conspiracy counts relating to a scheme to access voting machines and data in rural Coffee County.
His bond was set at $10,000, the court filing shows.
