A GEORGIA special grand jury recommended charging one current and two former US senators and 18 other allies of ex-President Donald Trump, a newly released report says.
But prosecutors decided not to indict them for alleged efforts to reverse the 2020 election results in the state.
The jury had voted to recommend indictments against Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and former Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
The full report was released on Friday.
The document, much of which was previously under seal, offers the clearest picture yet of the secret jury’s thinking as they investigated whether Mr Trump and his allies broke the law in Georgia during the 2020 US presidential election.
That investigation culminated in the criminal charges that were brought against Mr Trump and 18 co-defendants last month for an alleged conspiracy to overturn the election results.
All have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
This report, which was posted online, sheds light on who else was investigated and how close they came to being prosecuted.
In total the special grand jury recommended charges against 39 people. Eventually 19 people, including Mr Trump, were charged.
The panel spent seven months interviewing about 75 witnesses. They had broad investigative powers and could recommend charges based on their findings – but did not have the power to indict.
The grand jury report shows the breakdown of each vote to recommend charges against the major figures caught up in the investigation, including Mr Trump.
But the actual document shows dissent among the 23-member panel.
Two jurors voted against recommending charges for individuals accused of posing as false electors. They believed they had been “misled to understand what was their civic duty”.
While nearly all were in agreement to charge Mr Trump and his top attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, there was a more pronounced split about whether to charge the senators.
Footnotes included beneath each vote give a glimpse into their disagreements. The splits could portend challenges for prosecutors at an eventual trial, where a jury must vote unanimously to convict.
The report notes that one dissenting juror believed Ms Loeffler and Mr Perdue were “pandering to their political base” when they made false statements about the election results as they were running for re-election, but that did not necessarily make them “guilty of a criminal conspiracy”.
