Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed charges Tuesday against Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis, and Michael Roman, three allies of former President Donald Trump, in relation to an alleged 2020 alternate electors scheme.
Kaul, a Democrat, is expected to announce the criminal complaint against the “unappointed electors” case at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. The Washington Examiner obtained a copy of the complaint from the Dane County Circuit Court.
According to documents from a previously settled lawsuit that made months of texts and emails public, attorneys and allies of Trump allegedly planned for alternate electors to file paperwork claiming he won Wisconsin in a bid to subvert President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, there and in other swing states.
Chesebro, Troupis, and Roman each face one count of felony forgery in Dane County Circuit Court. Roman is a Philadelphia native who served as the Trump campaign’s head of Election Day operations, and Chesebro has been accused in other jurisdictions of being the key architect behind the alternate electors scheme in Georgia and other states. Troupis is a former judge and Trump campaign attorney.
“On Dec. 8, 2020, defendant Chesebro sent defendant Troupis an email with further thoughts about ‘how leverage might be exerted’ at the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, in connection with ‘having the electors send in alternate slates of votes,'” according to a portion of Kaul’s indictment, which unlike similar cases did not utilize a grand jury to levy the felony counts.
Chesebro and Troupis handed over more than 1,400 pages of documents, emails, messages, photos, and videos showing a detailed layout of the plan’s origins in Wisconsin. The records reveal how the Trump allies allegedly coordinated with Trump campaign officials to replicate the strategy in six other states, including Georgia, where Chesebro has already pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 2020 election. Roman is also a co-defendant in the Georgia case along with Trump and has pleaded not guilty.
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The alleged alternate electors scheme is a key component of the charges special counsel Jack Smith brought against Trump in federal court in Washington, D.C., where the case is on hold while the Supreme Court weighs Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution. That trial is unlikely to begin before Election Day, and Trump has pleaded not guilty to the four counts he faces there.
Read the full indictment here:
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