Story · December 10, 2024

Wisconsin Adds 10 More Felony Counts in Existing Trump Fake-Electors Case

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Wisconsin prosecutors on December 10, 2024, amended their existing fake-electors case and added 10 felony counts each against former Trump attorney Jim Troupis, Trump campaign adviser Kenneth Chesebro and former Trump campaign aide Mike Roman. The new filing raises each defendant’s total to 11 felony counts in the same prosecution that began with the June 4 complaint.

The amended complaint says the defendants helped prepare and circulate paperwork that falsely stated Donald Trump had won Wisconsin, even though Joe Biden carried the state in 2020. Prosecutors say the documents were tied to the effort to advance an alternate slate of Republican electors who signed Wisconsin’s certificate that year.

The December filing does not start a separate case. It builds on the June complaint and adds forgery-related charges to the same court action. Court records and the amended complaint say the state’s theory centers on whether the defendants knowingly used false documents as part of the 2020 post-election effort.

The defendants have denied wrongdoing in the broader fake-electors litigation, which remains one of the state’s central criminal cases tied to Donald Trump’s post-election push in Wisconsin.

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