Wisconsin’s attorney general on Tuesday charged three people involved in a scheme to send slates of pro-Trump “fake electors” in 2020.
Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis and Michael Roman — allies to the former president who each played different roles in his 2020 campaign efforts — were charged in state court with a single count of forgery, a low-level felony, a court docket shows.
Following the election, all three men were involved in a plan to send slates of pro-Trump electors to Congress in battleground states the former president lost to Joe Biden.
Though the scheme ultimately spanned seven states, the effort spawned in Wisconsin, including when Chesebro in the days following the election communicated with Troupis, a former state judge, and wrote a series of memos devising the strategy.
Roman, a Trump campaign political operative, allegedly helped coordinate the efforts in multiple states alongside Chesebro and called for a tracker to be made of the individuals who would sign the documents, intended to be sent to Congress for counting on Jan. 6, 2021.