Arizona Grand Jury Indicts Giuliani, Meadows, and Other Trump Allies in 2020 Election Probe

MARY CHASTAIN APR 24, 2024 9:00 PM

An Arizona grand jury indicted 11 Republican electors and seven attorneys and aides for allegedly trying to subvert Biden’s victory in 2020.

Arizona claims:

After the general election on November 3, 2020, Defendants raised false claims of widespread election fraud in Arizona to pressure election officials to change the outcome of a democratic election. Those efforts failed when the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Secretary of State, and Governor certified Arizona’s election. Republican Presidential Elector Defendants then voted for President Donald Trump and Vice President Michael Pence on December 14, 2020, falsely claiming to be the “duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States from the State of Arizona.”

The charges are:

• COUNT 1: CONSPIRACY, a Class 2 Felony, in violation of A.R.S. § 13-1003
• COUNT 2: FRAUDULENT SCHEMES AND ARTIFICES, a Class 2 Felony, in violation of A.R.S. §13-2310(A)
• COUNT 3: FRAUDULENT SCHEMES AND PRACTICES, a Class 5 Felony, in violation of A.R.S. § 13-2311
• COUNTS 4-9: FORGERY, Class 4 Felonies, in violation of A.R.S. § 13-2002(A)

The electors who allegedly signed false paperwork giving Trump the win (all face charges on counts 1-9):

• Tyler Bowyer, an executive with Turning Point USA and a committeeman for the Republican National Committee
• Nancy Cottle, who chaired the Arizona Trump electors
• State Sen. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek
• State Sen. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale
• Jim Lamon, former U.S. Senate candidate
• Robert Montgomery, former chair of the Cochise County Republican Committee
• Samuel Moorhead, a former leader of the Gila County Republican Party
• Loraine Pellegrino, the secretary of the Arizona Trump electors
• Greg Safsten, former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party
• Kelli Ward, former chair of the Arizona Republican Party
• Michael Ward, her husband and a GOP activist

The attorneys and aides are redacted in the indictment. The Washington Post said the redacted “include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman.”

The descriptions make the redacted identities obvious. We’re not stupid. For example, an attorney known as “the Mayor” is Giuliani (page 21).

The attorneys and aides allegedly helped devise a strategy to help Trump win Arizona.

The indictment identifies Trump as “Unindicted Coconspirator 1.”

“Defendants deceived the citizens of Arizona by falsely claiming that those votes were contingent only on a legal challenge that would change the outcome of the election,” according to the indictment. “In reality, Defendants intended that their false votes for Trump-Pence would encourage Pence to reject the Biden-Harris votes on January 6, 2021, regardless of the outcome of the legal challenge.”

The Arizona prosecutors met with Kenneth Chesebro, “who pleaded guilty pleaded guilty in Georgia in October to a single felony count of participating in a conspiracy to file false documents,” to get more information.

Chesebro gave Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes information about the alleged Arizona scheme, including some information that had never been seen before.

Michigan and Nevada prosecutors have also charged alleged fake Republican electors.

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