Legal experts: Video post is worthy of jail

ATLANTA — The Fulton County District Attorney’s office has grounds to seek jail time for a Chicago publicist after she posted a video which seems to target an ex-poll worker at the center of Georgia’s election subversion case, according to legal experts.

Trevian Kutti made the remarks recently in an Instagram Live video about Ruby Freeman, the former Fulton poll worker. The comments could amount to witness intimidation, which violates the terms of Kutti’s bond agreement, they said.

During the video, Kutti appears to allude to Freeman when she says, “There’s a woman sitting somewhere who knows that I’m going to (expletive) her whole life up when this is done.”

“If this isn’t an explicit threat, it’s awfully close,” said Amy Lee Copeland, a criminal defense attorney and former Georgia-based federal prosecutor.

Kutti never refers to Freeman by name in the video, which was recorded last week and first reported by Meidastouch, a left-leaning news website, over the weekend. But she discusses video which was recorded in a police station — portions of her January 2021 conversation with Freeman were captured on police body cam video in a Cobb County precinct. She also references “your mama’s fingerprints,” which seemingly refer to Freeman’s daughter, Shaye Moss, who also served as a poll worker at State Farm Arena on election night in 2020.

Kutti, who previously worked for musical artists Kanye West and R. Kelly, was indicted on three felony counts in August for her alleged role in Freeman’s harassment. She was charged with racketeering, influencing witnesses and conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings.

She is one of the 15 remaining defendants in Fulton’s election interference case involving former President Donald Trump.