All posts tagged "Kenneth Chesebro"

A co-defendant of Donald Trump in Georgia wasn't indicted for a similar scheme in Arizona, and the best explanation is that he's cooperating with prosecutors, a legal analyst said Wednesday evening.

Andrew Weissmann, the former top prosecutor on former special counsel Robert Mueller's team, appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, where he was asked about Trump attorney and co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro.

Specifically, the host noted that Chesebro "traveled to Arizona to cooperate with this investigation."...

The Arizona indictment released on Wednesday for the fake elector scheme charges several of former President Donald Trump's lawyers and strategists, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb, and Boris Epshteyn, as well as Arizona GOP officials like Kelli Ward, and names Trump himself as an unindicted co-conspirator — but there's a conspicuous hole in the indictments, as a major architect of the fake elector scheme, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, is missing.

That's not by accident, NYU Law professor Ryan Goodman wrote for his Just Security site.

"Chesebro has so far escaped prosecution in other states where false electors are under indictment," wrote Goodman. "His protection from prosecution appears to be on the basis that he 'cooperated' with those investigations. However, recent investigative reporting by CNN and others has revealed that Chesebro apparently made false statements to state prosecutors in Michigan and Nevada while feigning cooperation with their respective criminal investigations of false electors (see also this analysis of flaws with his proffer agreement in Georgia)."
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MSNBC's Ari Melber clashed on Thursday with Manny Arora, attorney for Georgia Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro, about the events of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' ethics hearing over the nature of her relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Arora opened by saying that the arrangement "stinks to high heaven."

"I have a lot of problems with things that are going on, and the fact that one witness actually had the courage to go forward and say, this is what she saw in the office, there should be about half a dozen more on the witness list that would do that, but I don't know if they're actually going to come through," said Arora....

He pleaded guilty and since then maybe he's trying to make amends.

That's the thinking of former House Jan. 6 Committee investigator Temidayo Aganga-Williams when it comes to pro-Trump attorney and now-convicted felon Kenneth Chesebro.

The disgraced attorney's peeling back of the curtain into Trumpworld on the concerted effort and many hands involved to deliver critical documents to D.C. in time for then-Vice President Mike Pence to potentially halt the certification of the 2020 presidential results to secure Biden, is something that Aganga-Williams believes is a remarkable admission. ...

Like fellow co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, attorney Jenna Ellis is avoiding state prison by agreeing to a plea deal in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' RICO/election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

But for these lawyers, there may be non-criminal repercussions to admitting that they lied when they promoted Trump's false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

Powell, for example, has been battling a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. And Ellis, according to Law & Crime reporter Marisa Sarnoff, is a candidate for possible disbarment....

Two terse apologies from Donald Trump lawyers who pleaded guilty to Georgia election interference charges served as a sly wink to conspiracy theorists who refuse to believe Joe Biden won the 2020 election, experts say.

Democratic strategist Fred Hicks told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday he was stunned by the cold, one-line apologies submitted to the Fulton County court by Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro.

“To me, these serve to further entrench beliefs of a mass conspiracy,” Hicks reportedly said of the letters, which he dubbed “a wink and a nod to the election deniers.”...