Former President Donald Trump's ex-attorney, who was charged alongside Trump in the Georgia racketeering indictment, is working with investigators on a similar 2020 election subversion investigation in Nevada and Arizona.
Kenneth Chesebro, who pleaded guilty in the Georgia case to a felony count of participating in a conspiracy to file false documents, had been included in the Peach State indictment due to his role in organizing slates of pro-Trump electors in 2020. The defendant-turned-witness in that Trump case now plans to meet with investigators in Nevada and Arizona, multiple outlets reported Thursday.
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Last week, Chesebro's counsel asked the Fulton County judge who accepted his plea deal with prosecutors to modify his probation rules to allow travel to Nevada, Arizona, and Washington, D.C., for 2020 election subversion investigations.
“Mr. Chesebro needs to be able to travel to these jurisdictions in order to meet with counsel," his lawyer wrote in the Georgia court filing.
The Nevada investigation focuses on six state activists who allegedly convened and signed false paperwork stating they were the state's true electors. Meanwhile, the Arizona investigation involves Trump-supporting electors who allegedly overstepped their authority, as well as other Trump allies' efforts to pressure state and local officials to overturn the state's 2020 election results, according to the Washington Post.
One source familiar with the matter told the Washington Post that investigators "want to know the roots of the fake-elector theory."
Another source said Nevada officials have given Chesebro a "proffer" agreement that promises not to charge him in exchange for truthful testimony but said there is no such agreement yet in Arizona, nor with special counsel Jack Smith in the Washington case.
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Michigan and New Mexico authorities are investigating additional alternate elector plots. Special counsel prosecutors in the federal case against Trump could still seek his testimony or potentially bring charges against Chesebro at a later date.
There are no signs that Smith's team requires information from Chesebro to take Trump to trial over four charges tied to his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 general election, which is slated to begin in early March.