NEWSWEEK
Kenneth Chesebro, a former attorney for Donald Trump who took a plea deal after being indicted alongside the former president in the Georgia election interference case, is cooperating in other criminal cases.
Chesebro, 62, who was one of 19 people, including Trump, charged under Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘ probe, is helping prosecutors who are looking into the fake elector schemes during the 2020 presidential election in at least four states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, to avoid further charges, according to CNN.
The claims, which have not been verified by Newsweek, could increase the legal pressure on Trump. Chesebro is one of four people who have flipped and cooperated in Georgia after being charged along with the former president. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all the charges related to Willis’ investigation.
As part of the deal to plead guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy—rather than the seven felonies with which he was originally charged—Chesebro agreed to testify against others, including Trump, in the Georgia case.
The CNN report is the first real indication that a criminal investigation into the plot to have groups of fake electors falsely declaring Trump the winner of the 2020 election instead of President Joe Biden is taking place in Wisconsin.
A group of 10 Republicans that was part of a fake elector scheme in the state recently settled a civil lawsuit filed against them, for which they they agreed to cooperate with the Department of Justice (DOJ) on similar cases, as well as admit that Trump did not win the election.
Chesebro is said to have testified to a grand jury in Nevada, where Attorney General Aaron D. Ford recently announced that six people have been indicted as part of a fake elector plot in the state.
The lawyer is also allegedly slated to attend an interview in Arizona as part of the state’s ongoing investigation into fake electors. Chesebro also cooperated with investigators in Michigan, where Attorney General Dana Nessel charged 16 Republicans with felony offenses as part of a fake elector scheme in July.
Newsweek reached out to Trump’s office and Chesebro’s legal team via email for comment.
Chesebro was found to have written a series of memos in late 2020 instructing several states how to install a group of alternative electors to falsely declare Trump the winner of the respective states in the last election.
