the arizona charges against trumps good pal mark meadows has just been made public
Mark Meadows unmasked in Arizona fake electors indictment, faces 9 felony charges
Charges have formally been made public against
Mark Meadows, the onetime chief of staff to former President
Donald Trump, in the expansive fake electors case now underway in
Arizona.
Trump is not charged in Arizona but is considered an unindicted co-conspirator.
As Law&Crime
recently reported, 18 fake electors in the state were
indicted by a grand jury on April 24 for their alleged efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. Though several Republicans were named directly in the fraud and forgery indictment including, among others, leaders of the state’s Republican party and two incumbent state lawmakers, some of those charged had their identities redacted, including Meadows and Trump’s former attorney also
facing indictment in Georgia,
Rudy Giuliani.
Formal charges have still not been confirmed for Giuliani in Arizona.
The
Associated Press reported first on Wednesday that the state’s attorney’s general office confirmed Meadows was being charged with nine felony counts and has been served.
An attorney for Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment to Law&Crime on Friday.
Those charged with trying to pass off bogus elector slates in 2020 and named openly when the indictment first went public included Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward, her husband Michael Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, and Gregory Safsten.
The identities of some individuals whose names were redacted was not difficult to piece together given the indictment’s description of them. In addition to Meadows and Giuliani, they appeared to include current Trump campaign lawyer Boris Epshteyn and a bevy of former campaign lawyers included
Jenna Ellis — who pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in Georgia — Trump’s onetime lawyer Christina Bobb, former campaign aide Mike Roman, and
John Eastman, a retired law professor who
pushed out a memo outlining what steps to take to keep Trump in office despite his electoral defeat. Eastman is also charged in the racketeering indictment alongside Trump in Georgia.
The reason they were not named openly is because they had not yet been formally served.
The nine felony charges Meadows faces in Arizona include conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, and fraudulent schemes and practices. The remaining charges are felony forgery allegations.
Prosecutors say Meadows and others engaged in a scheme where Trump’s allies held themselves out to be “duly elected and qualified electors” for Arizona, thereby deceiving the citizens of the state by claiming that only their votes were legal.
“In reality, defendants intended that their false votes for Trump-Pence would encourage Pence to rejected the Biden-Harris votes on Jan. 6, 2021, regardless of the outcome of the legal challenge.”
This only failed because then-Vice President Mike Pence did accept electoral votes for now-President Joe Biden.
The Arizona State Attorney General's Office has confirmed that former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has been served in the fake electors case there and faces nine felony charges.
lawandcrime.com
arizona needs to keep farty von schitzenpantz as an unindicted co-conspirator until after he loses the election and then kick him in the dick with an indictment right after.