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WASHINGTON — Three men involved in the so-called fake electors scheme to keep former President Donald Trump in office following his 2020 election loss have been charged in Wisconsin, according to court records. Mike Roman, a Philadelphia native who served as the Trump campaign's head of Election Day operations, was charged Tuesday, as was Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who struck a plea deal with prosecutors in a separate 2020 election case in Georgia in October.
Similar slates of fake electors for Trump were organized in several states and charges have been brought in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat who brought the case, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The fake electors scheme is a major component of the charges that special counsel Jack Smith has brought against Trump in federal court in Washington, D.C. That case, assigned to U.S.
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