Kenneth #Chesebro got smacked with a ♦️felony fraud charge ♦️by #Wisconsin prosecutors on Tuesday.
Largely considered🔸 the architect of the fake electors plot to flip the 2020 election to Trump, 🔸
Chesebro was charged alongside
Michael #Roman, 🔸head of Trump’s 2020 Election Day operations, 🔸
and fellow Trump lawyer
James #Troupis.
All were charged with one count of #forgery in the case brought by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Paul, according to court records.
The statute listed for the Trump trio’s charges,
💥“forgery-uttering,” 💥is a Class H felony in Wisconsin,
essentially defined as touting bogus official statements or fake legal documents or public records as true while knowing they’re fraudulent.
Chesebro, as part of the fake elector scheme,
attempted to send fake certified elector documents
—which falsely claimed Wisconsin and Michigan electors chose Trump
—to Washington, D.C., ahead of 2020’s presidential electoral certification process.
The plot was spoiled when the documents infamously got stuck in the mail,
leading to a last-minute scramble by the schemers to get the phony paperwork into the hands of then–Vice President Mike Pence
in time to certify election results on January 6, 2021.
Chesebro is also named as a
co-conspirator in Georgia’s fake elector charges,
where he is cooperating with the state and has pleaded guilty to planning the goofily villainous scheme.
Chesebro is reportedly also cooperating with prosecutors in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Tuesday’s charges are a first for Troupis and Roman, who join the vaunted ranks of at least a dozen other Trump lawyers and toadies who conspired to submit fake electors to certify the 2020 election for Trump.
Troupis and Chesebro are also being sued by Biden electors in Wisconsin for the plot,
where 10 other Republican electors settled a lawsuit in December 2023 forcing them to admit Biden won the 2020 election.
https://newrepublic.com/post/182222/trump-henchmen-chesebro-fake-electors-2020-election-charged-forgery-wisconsin
'In breaking news, the Wisconsin Attorney General has indicted for forgery, former #Trump attorneys Ken #Chesebro and Jim #Troupis, and the head of Trump’s Election Day ground game, Mike #Roman arising out of their leadership roles with Trump in the fake elector scheme.'
In breaking news, the Wisconsin Attorney General has indicted for forgery, former Trump attorneys Ken Chesebro and Jim Troupis, and the head of Trump’s Elect...
Communications between #Chesebro & a top #Trump campaign lawyer in Wisconsin, Jim #Troupis, show that Chesebro argued just days after the Nov 3, 2020 election that creating a “cloud of confusion” by submitting dueling slates of electors would be enough to keep Joe #Biden from becoming president.
#law #TrumpCoup #Insurrection
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24458396/troupis-008910-troupis-010348.pdf
Settlement in Wisconsin fake elector case offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers
Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying he won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there. That’s according to a lawsuit settlement reached Monday that makes public months of texts and emails. Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis turned over more than 1,400 pages of documents, emails, texts and other materials that offer a detailed account of the scheme’s origins in Wisconsin. The communications show how they, with coordination from Trump campaign officials, replicated the strategy in six other states including Georgia. The agreements settle a civil lawsuit brought by Democrats in 2022 against the two attorneys and 10 Republicans in Wisconsin who posed as fake electors.
The #Biden electors are continuing their #lawsuit against 2 attorneys who assisted the #Wisconsin #Republicans — Jim #Troupis, a fmr Dane County #judge who #led #Trump’s recount efforts in the state, & Kenneth #Chesebro, who advised #Republicans around the country & pleaded guilty in Oct to conspiring to overturn Biden’s win in #Georgia.
#BigLie #MAGA #law #coup #ElectionInterference #GOP #fraud #BidenWon
“#Eastman, who would go on to advise #Trump after the 2020 election… was also #indicted Mon in #Georgia.
“#Chesebro worked again w/a Claremont Inst affiliate in ‘18, on a #Wisconsin case that involved a poli-sci prof who argued he was improperly suspended after criticizing a grad student on his #conservative blog. The case became a fault line in vexed debates over campus #speech. Also involved was #Troupis, the WI #lawyer & fmr county judge who would… represent the #Trump campaign in the state.
“…friends said his politics seemed to shift after he reaped sizable returns from his investments in cryptocurrency in the past half-decade. He began to stake out more-#libertarian positions in #legal briefs, especially in his home state of #Wisconsin, where he started donating to #Republicans & working w/ a fmr judge, Jim #Troupis, who #Chesebro would later testify under oath had brought him into #Trump’s orbit.
yes, & Jim #Troupis was REappointed to the #Wisconsin #Judicial Advisory Panel.
The #WisconsinSupremeCourt ordered the reappointment of #attorney James R. Troupis to the #JudicialConduct Advisory Committee for a term that runs until March 7, 2026. The court's 4 #conservative justices supported his reappointment while 3 liberal justices dissented.
#Corruption #Law
https://www.wpr.org/jim-troupislawyer-trump-fake-elector-scheme-judicial-advisory-panel-wisconsin-supreme-court
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