Mon Nov 7, 2022 – 6:42 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – An appeals court ordered two leaders of an election fraud watchdog group released from jail after they were imprisoned for contempt of court.
Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, and Gregg Phillips, data investigator for the group, were ordered released from detention on Sunday by a panel of circuit judges consisting of Catharina Haynes and Trump appointees Kurt Engelhardt and Andrew Oldham.
Engelbrecht and Phillips were jailed on October 31 after U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt found them in contempt of court for refusing to reveal the identity of an individual present during a meeting at which they were allegedly given proof that the election management software company Konnech had “improperly stor[ed] the personal data of “millions” of U.S. poll workers on a server in China,” according to The Texas Tribune.
Hoyt had ordered that the election integrity advocates be imprisoned until they “fully comply” with the court order by divulging the name of the unidentified analyst present at the January 2021 meeting. Phillips shared during one hearing that the individual is an FBI informant, as is Mike Hasson, another of the sources
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