Michigan is just one of at least three states where prosecutors say people breached election systems while embracing and spreading Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
LANSING, Mich. — Two Michigan allies of former President Donald Trump, including a former Republican state attorney general candidate, were charged in connection with an effort to illegally access and tamper with voting machines in the state after the 2020 election, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Attorney Matthew DePerno was charged with undue possession of a voting machine and conspiracy, while Daire Rendon, a former Republican state representative, was charged with conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine and false pretenses, special prosecutor D.J. Hilson announced in a news release. Both were arraigned Tuesday afternoon, according to Richard Lynch, the court administrator for Oakland County’s 6th Circuit.
In his statement, Hilson said the charges against DePerno and Rendon were authorized by “an independent citizens grand jury," and that his office did not make any recommendations.The charges come the same day Trump was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with conspiracy to defraud the United States and other counts as part of hisof the 2020 presidential election. The former president is also being investigated for election interference in Georgia.
In Michigan, five vote tabulators were illegally taken from three counties and brought to a hotel room, according to by Nessel’s office. Investigators found that the tabulators were broken into and “tests” were performed on the equipment. DePerno was named as a “prime instigator” in the case.
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