‘Breakdown’ S10 Episode 16: ‘The Fraud Hunters’

The AJC’s ‘Breakdown’ podcast explains the GBI’s investigtaion into the Coffee County data breach. Plus, defendant Harrison Floyd goes on a new quest for election fraud.
In the latest episode of the "Breakdown" podcast, the AJC's Mark Niesse explains the GBI investigation of the Coffee County data breach. (Coffee County)

Credit: Coffee County

Credit: Coffee County

In the latest episode of the "Breakdown" podcast, the AJC's Mark Niesse explains the GBI investigation of the Coffee County data breach. (Coffee County)

The latest Breakdown episode includes an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Mark Niesse, who explains the GBI investigation of the data breach in South Georgia’s Coffee County.

Niesse, who covers voting for the newspaper, recaps a yearlong investigation into the Jan. 7, 2021, data breach. He summarizes highlights taken from an almost 400-page GBI investigative report, which was recently obtained by the AJC.

“The Fraud Hunters” — Episode 16 of Breakdown’s Season 10, “The Trump Indictment” — also covers a recent hearing in which defendant Harrison Floyd’s lawyer said he wants mountainous state and Fulton County voting information to prove that Donald Trump, not President Joe Biden, won the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

Floyd, the onetime head of Black Voices for Trump, stands indicted for three felony counts stemming from his alleged role in the harassment of poll worker Ruby Freeman.

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