A federal judge has ordered True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht and researcher Gregg Phillips to identify their source in their investigation of the election software company Konnech by Monday or face jail. Earlier this month, the CEO of Michigan-based Konnech, Eugene Yu, was arrested and charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors for allegedly storing election worker data on servers based in China. Engelbrecht and Phillips had been investigating Konnech since January 2021, and last month, prior to Yu's arrest, the CEO filed a defamation lawsuit against them.
The lawsuit has continued, despite Yu's arrest, and in Houston on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt gave Engelbrecht and Phillips a deadline of Monday to turn over any Konnech data it possessed and disclose the name of their source. True the Vote has characterized the lawsuit as an effort to try to silence the organization. Konnech obtained an ex-parte temporary restraining order in secret, True the Vote said, so the election integrity group would have no opportunity to contest it.
Phillips, in a message on Truth Social, said he and Engelbrecht "were held in contempt of court because we refused to burn a confidential informant or our researchers." "We will go to jail Monday unless we comply."...............To Read More......
BREAKING: True the Vote leaders arrested after refusing to reveal confidential informant - Hannah Nightingale - Hoyt ordered that Engelbrcht and Phillips be held in custody for at least a day, until they divulge that information. On Monday, US Marshalls took into custody Catherine Engelbrecht and
Gregg Phillips of True the Vote for refusing to identify a confidential
informant. Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt delivered the order, holding the two in
contempt of court for refusing to identify the informant, according to
independent journalist Ivory Hecker.............. According to the Houston Chronicle, Engelbrecht and Phillips testified that identifying the confidential informant would put his life at risk. "Every name I give you gets doxxed and harassed," Engelbrecht said..............
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