LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on Tuesday, July 18 felony charges against 16 state residents for their rol.
The Michigan attorney general has announced charges against the state's 16 "fake electors," the office announced in a press release on Tuesday afternoon, for their alleged role in the scheme after the 2020 presidential election. Attorney General Dana Nessel charged each of the state's electors with felonies including conspiracy to commit forgery, forgery and other charges. The 16 electors allegedly met "covertly" in the basement of the Michigan Republican Party headquarters on Dec. 14 and signed their names to multiple certificates stating they were the duly elected electors.
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(LANSING, Mich.) The Michigan attorney general has announced charges against the state s 16 "fake electors," the office announced in a press release on Tuesday afternoon, for their alleged role in the scheme after the 2020 presidential election.
Attorney General Dana Nessel charged each of the state s electors with felonies including conspiracy to commit forgery, forgery and other charges.
The 16 electors allegedly met "covertly" in the basement of the Michigan Republican Party headquarters on Dec. 14 and signed their names to multiple certificates stating they were the duly elected electors.
Those false documents were then "transmitted to the United States Senate and National Archives in a coordinated effort to award the state s electoral votes to the candidate of their choosing, in place of the candidates actually elected by the people of Michigan."
The investigation remains ongoing, the release says.
"The false ele