A new report from CNN says that a lawyer connected to former President Donald Trump is cooperating in a state investigation in Nevada into efforts there around sham electors, meaning the state’s slate of individuals who signed on ostensible electoral college members who were supporting Trump despite Joe Biden winning the state’s actual electoral votes.
Sham electoral college votes were assembled in a slew of states, including two others — Georgia and Michigan — where criminal charges have already been brought against directly participating individuals. The lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, who helped originate the fake electors scheme, was charged in the Georgia case where he struck a plea deal with prosecutors that included an agreement for at least some cooperation with investigations.
“Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who helped orchestrate the fake electors plot across multiple states, has agreed to sit down with Nevada investigators in hopes of avoiding prosecution there, sources familiar with the matter told CNN,” according to the news outlet. The news source didn’t include precise details of what Chesebro might have been preparing to tell the state’s investigators. The fake electors inquiry is helmed by Nevada state Attorney General
Aaron Ford, who’s a Democrat.
CNN separately confirmed another investigation in the southwestern state of New Mexico into fake elector efforts there, which comes alongside the also active and similar in focus probe from Arizona authorities. That’s three more state investigations beyond the two where fake electors have already been charged.
In connection to the federal criminal case against Trump that covers allegations of election targeting, there also remains the possibility of additional charges against others. For now, it’s just Trump who’s charged in that case, in which prosecutors have indicated they’re intending to use expressions of support for January 6 rioters against the former president as alleged context for the criminal conspiracies claimed in the case. Trump has recently been promising to produce evidence proving the election rigging he’s long claimed, but there’s no indication that he has any such evidence.
