The Daily Fuckup

Wisconsin prosecutors filed an amended criminal complaint on Dec. 10, 2024, adding 10 felony counts each against Jim Troupis, Kenneth Chesebro and Mike Roman in the state’s fake-electors case. The new filing says the men used deceit to obtain the signatures of Republican electors on paperwork that falsely claimed Donald Trump had won Wisconsin in 2020.

The amended complaint does not start a new case. It expands the June 2024 prosecution with additional counts and more detail about the same alleged conduct: organizing and presenting false elector certificates after the 2020 election. The original complaint had already charged each man once; the new counts bring each defendant to 11 felony counts total if the amended filing is accepted as part of the pending case.

Troupis was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin in 2020. Chesebro advised Trump’s campaign. Roman served as Trump’s director of Election Day operations. Prosecutors have not proved the allegations, and all three men can contest the charges in court.

The revised complaint places the Wisconsin case deeper into the wider post-2020 fake-electors effort, but the legal significance is straightforward: prosecutors are saying the same scheme supports more charges, not that they have proven a crime. For now, the filing increases the defendants’ exposure and adds a more specific account of how the elector paperwork was allegedly assembled and used.