BJay Pak, the former U.S. Attorney General for the Northern District of Georgia, testified June 13 before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, detailing his experience with the Trump campaign’s false claims of voter fraud.
Georgia, where Pak was U.S. Attorney General, was one of the states in which the Trump campaign falsely claimed it saw issues.
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In his testimony, Pak recalled a particular allegation that an election worker took a suitcase full of votes to the ballot box after hours.
But Pak explained that those weren’t extra votes, or falsely cast votes — they had previously been accidentally missed. It wasn’t a suitcase, Pak said, but a lockbox full of legitimate votes that needed to be counted.
The FBI investigated the claim, Pak said, but “determined nothing irregular happened in the counting,” and said the claims were false.
Lofgren asked Pak to confirm that there was “no widespread fraud sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome of the election.”
“That is correct,” Pak said.
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The committee first spoke to Pak in August. CNN reported that as part of his testimony, Pak said he stepped down as U.S. Attorney in Atlanta after Trump called Georgia’s secretary of state and tried to pressure him into saying there had been election fraud.
During that call, Trump referred to a “never-Trump” official, though he didn’t specifically say Pak’s name.
After Pak resigned, Trump appointed a new U.S. Attorney, and Pak said he had confidence in his successor.
According to a Senate Judiciary Committee interim staff report, “Pak’s office had investigated and debunked various allegations of election fraud in Georgia” by the time Trump called. The report alleges that Pak had planned to stay in his role until inauguration day and he was “personally very concerned” about Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
Pak is currently a partner at Alston & Bird law firm in Atlanta. Pak is expected to testify on a panel with Ben Ginsberg, a conservative elections lawyer, and Al Schmidt, former Philadelphia city commissioner.
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This is a developing story and will be updated.
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