Trump lawyers and aide face additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors

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Source: PBS News Hour/AP

Dec 10, 2024 2:43 PM EST


MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year.

Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who advised the campaign, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, all initially faced a single felony forgery charge in Wisconsin. Those charges were filed in June.

But on Tuesday, two days before the three are scheduled for their initial court appearances, the Wisconsin Department of Justice filed 10 additional felony charges against each of them. The charges are for using forgery in an attempt to defraud each of the 10 Republican electors who cast their ballots for Trump that year.

Each of the 11 of the felony charges they face carries the same maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lawyers-and-aide-face-additional-felony-charges-in-wisconsin-over-2020-fake-electors

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1. *The charges are for using forgery in an attempt to defraud each of the 10 Republican electors

who cast their ballots for Trump that year.

Each of the 11 of the felony charges they face carries the same maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.'

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