Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story stated that Hall co-founded ATG Communications with his wife. He wife says he was never an owner of that company.
A man the media calls an Atlanta-area bail bondsman indicted alongside Donald Trump is actually a longtime Augusta-area business owner.
Scott Graham Hall, the owner of Anytime Bail Bonding Inc., made Martinez his home for at least 20 years until recently relocating to Atlanta, according to property records.
Hall is identified approximately 15 times in the 98-page, 41-count indictment brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against Donald Trump, former Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani and 17 other co-defendants.
The sweeping indictment covers a wide range of activities, from the assembly of fake electors and lying to state officials to the theft of data from Coffee County voting machines.
All the activities were part of a conspiracy to overturn 2020 election results and return Trump to the White House, a violation of Georgia’s racketeer-influenced and corrupt organizations, or RICO, act, according to the indictment. RICO is most commonly used now to prosecute street gang members.
Hall co-founded Anytime Bail Bonding in 1994, and by 1999 it was headquartered on Fourth Street by the former Richmond County Jail. Now with an office on Peach Orchard Road, Anytime operates in 30 Georgia counties through entities that were incorporated by an Evans law office.
A 2021 lawsuit against Gwinnett County Sheriff Keybo Taylor – filed by Hall’s now-Fulton co-defendant, Alpharetta lawyer Robert Cheeley – states that by 2021 Anytime had executed approximately 206,450 bail bonds, with a total liability of $834 million.
He’s described as a 50% shareholder in Anytime living in Westlake and the former president of the Professional Bond Agents of the United States.
Hall is named in seven counts of the indictment. Each count is broken down into individual acts, and Hall is named in 10 of the 181 acts that comprise Count 1.
Alleged role in conspiracy began Nov. 20
Hall’s alleged role in the conspiracy begins around Nov. 20, 2020 in an email from then-Georgia GOP chair David Shafer, who is named in the indictment about 30 times.
The email, sent to “un-indicted co-conspirator individual 4,” asks the individual to exchange contact information with Hall because Hall was looking into the election “at the request of David Bossie” and to “help (Bossie) as needed.”
Bossie served as president of Citizens United when it won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court lifting restrictions on campaign contributions. He later served as a deputy campaign manager for Trump.
Hall’s next alleged act came on Jan. 2, 2021, when he placed a 63-minute phone call to Jeffrey Bossert Clark. Clark, the former Trump assistant attorney general was indicted for creating false writings on behalf of the Justice Department that were sent to Gov. Brian Kemp and others stating the election was fraudulent.
Then on Jan. 5, 2021, the day before the Jan. 6, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the indictment contends Hall made or received eight calls in a flurry of 23 calls made between Cheeley and three other co-defendants.
Cheeley exchanged calls with indicted co-defendants Trevian Kutti and Stephen Cliffgard Lee, who are accused of trying to get Fulton election worker Ruby Freeman to confess to tampering.
Alleged Coffee County theft of voting data, software
Hall’s largest alleged role in the indictment took place Jan. 7, 2021, in Douglas, Ga., about 170 miles southeast of Augusta. There, he’s accused of participating in a conspiracy to tamper with and steal data from elections equipment at the Coffee County Board of Elections and Registration.
In those eight separate acts under Count 1, Hall allegedly traveled by private plane to Douglas where he met with technicians from an IT firm, Sullivan Strickler, Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, then-Coffee GOP Chair and fake elector Cathy Latham and former Coffee elections supervisor Misty Hampton. All but the IT personnel were named in the indictment.
Together the group engaged in “willfully and unlawfully tampering with electronic ballot markers and tabulating machines,” it said. In addition, they unlawfully took ballots outside a polling place and breached a computer to remove both voter and Dominion Voting Systems data.
Hall was not among the defendants specifically charged with perjury, but Latham was. She made deposition statements that she’d only been in the elections office “a few minutes,” never saw Hampton there, barely spoke to Hall and didn’t see Hall speak to anyone but her. All was contradicted by surveillance video obtained in another court case, Curling v. Raffensperger, over the integrity of voting equipment.
In his perjury count, Cheeley denied suggesting or knowing the fake electors would meet Dec. 14, 2020. In an email to another unindicted co-conspirator, Individual 2, he wrote that “Professor Eastman told me tonight that it is critical that the 16 electors for President Trump meet next Monday,” according to the indictment.
