By Maria Ortiz
Kenneth Chesebro, one of the former president’s co-defendants donald trump in the case of interference in the elessons from 2020 in Georgiaplans to meet with researchers in Arizona and Nevada, where similar investigations are being carried out, according to The Washington Post, which cites three people with knowledge of these agreements.
Chesebro, who pleaded guilty in the Georgia case to a single felony count of participating in a conspiracy to submit false documents, had been charged primarily in connection with his role in 2020 in organizing lists of state electors who would certify their votes for Trump.
Those electors met and voted in seven states where Joe Biden had won the presidential election and hoped to award those states’ electoral votes to Trump in Congress on January 6, 2021.
As part of his plea, Chesebro avoided prison time but must testify in the case.
Prosecutors in Arizona and Nevada, who are investigating whether the lists of Trump electors who gathered in those states violated any laws, They have approached Chesebrosources told The Washington Post.
Sources familiar with the matter also told CNN that Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who helped orchestrate the fake elector plot in several states, agreed to sit down with Nevada investigators in hopes of avoiding prosecution there.
Chesebro’s cooperation with Nevada prosecutors covers his involvement in that state until January 6, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s legitimate electoral victory. .
CNN also identified Chesebro as an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal criminal case that special counsel Jack Smith brought against Trump in the summer, for interference in the outcome of the 2020 election at the federal level.
The federal election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith alleges that Trump and his allies orchestrated a broad, multistate conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in part by submitting lists of fake pro-Trump electors in seven states. clue.
As part of that plot, six Republicans in Nevada signed false Electoral College votes in December 2020 for then-President Trump, who lost the state to Biden. The plan included similar efforts in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Mexico.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in July charged more than a dozen people who acted as false voters.
And Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has launched an investigation into the fake voter scheme there.
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