The Georgia Bar Association is “conducting an investigation” against lawyer Lin Wood, one of the lawyers who unsuccessfully pushed a handful of lawsuits to block the results of the Georgia elections after alleging unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, the organization told CNN in a statement on Tuesday.
In a statement to CNN, Sarah Coole, chief of operations for the Georgia State Bar Association, wrote: “We can confirm that the Order is conducting an investigation under Order Rule 4-104, but we cannot comment further. ”.
Wood confirmed that he had received a complaint filed against him by the State Bar of Georgia, writing on the social application Telegram on February 13: “I just received a complaint of more than 1,600 pages filed against me by the State Bar of Georgia . GA State Bar threw the kitchen sink at me. “
Wood did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for additional comments.
On January 29, Wood wrote on the Telegram that “I am fighting battles on all fronts. The Georgia State Bar Association told me today that it would require a mental health check on me if I wanted to keep my legal license. My mind is healthy. I didn’t break any rules. I asked what I had done wrong, I was just told it was about my comments on social media. My speech. “
Separately, Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, launched an official investigation into whether or not Wood voted as a legal resident in the November 2020 election, a source in Raffensperger’s office confirmed to CNN earlier this month.
In a statement to CNN on February 2, Wood wrote, “I have lived in the state of Georgia since 1955. I moved to South Carolina yesterday. This is pure harassment by the Georgia Secretary of State because I have revealed credible evidence of electoral fraud on the part of Brad Raffensperger. “
Raffensperger’s office declined to comment on Wood’s allegation of harassment, telling CNN that it does not comment on ongoing investigations.
In early February 2, WSB-TV’s Justin Gray tweeted a screenshot of an email allegedly sent from Wood, showing that he had moved from georgia and “he was domiciled in South Carolina for several months after buying a property in the state in April.”
Gray tweeted that these comments “It caught the attention of the researchers.”
Wood later said in a February 2 statement to CNN that he was not “domiciled” in South Carolina.
“I haven’t been ‘domiciled’ in South Carolina for several months,” Wood told CNN. “I spent time at my homes in Georgia and South Carolina. I considered myself a resident and resident in Georgia until yesterday, when I made the decision to become a resident in South Carolina. Now I hope to be domiciled in South Carolina as well. I will still often visit Georgia. “
A source familiar with the Georgia Secretary of State’s investigation said that they opened the Wood investigation after learning what he emailed Justin Gray of WSB-TV about having “been domiciled in South Carolina for several months. ”.
Once Raffensperger’s office has completed the investigation, it will report its findings to the Georgia State Electoral Council, which can decide whether to refer the case to the Georgia Attorney General for further investigation, according to the source.
Last year, an LLC linked to Wood purchased at least three multimillion-dollar properties in Beaufort County, a coastal area south of Charleston, South Carolina.
In 2020, LLC purchased Tomotley Plantation, which has more than 1,000 acres of land and features an avenue of planted oaks in 1820. The earliest known date of the property’s existence was 1698, according to the Tomotley Plantation website. According to the website, Tomotley Plantation already housed slaves.