Just recently, we reported that Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows found himself embroiled in quite the ironic scandal after reportedly busted for using a seemingly false address to vote in the 2020 election while simultaneously pushing the now ex-president’s unhinged Big Lie regarding voter fraud and a “stolen” election.
And now it seems that scandal may soon turn into very serious legal trouble for the former Trump official and major Big Lie proponent.
According to a new report from The Hill, the office of North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, has officially called on the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) to investigate the former Trump White House Chief of staff in regard to brutal accusations that he voted in 2020 under an address for a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, yet seemingly never lived at the residence or even visited there.
A spokeswoman for Stein’s office, Nazneen Ahmed, said the Attorney General made the request following a reference to the matter by Macon County District Attorney Ashley Welch to the North Carolina Justice Department’s Special Prosecutions Section. In an email, Ahmed confirmed, “We have asked the SBI to investigate and at the conclusion of the investigation, we’ll review their findings.”
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The investigation was first reported on by WRAL.
The allegations against Meadows first broke from The New Yorker, where they alleged that Mark Meadows had never lived at the North Carolina address he used to vote in the election and doesn’t even own the property.
Both Meadows and his wife Debbie voted in the 2020 election via absentee ballots that were mailed to their Washington D.C. home and the allegations have obviously raised eyebrows as many people have come to learn that Meadows himself very likely participated in the very fraud he accused the Democrats of.
The Hill notes in their report, with regard to potential punishment for Meadows:
Providing false information on a voter registration form is a felony under federal law. It is also a Class I felony under the North Carolina General Statutes, punishable by three to four months in prison under state sentencing guidelines. The absentee ballot request form Meadows would have filled out included an item asking the voter where they lived as of the date they made the request.
The conservative Heritage Foundation, which keeps a database of voter fraud charges, lists one instance of voter registration fraud in North Carolina, a case in which a man pleaded guilty to charges of voter registration fraud and voter fraud for casting ballots in two different states in the 2012 election. The maximum sentence for voter fraud in that case, court documents show, was 15 months.
The court documents say the man reached a plea deal with prosecutors to serve a suspended sentence of between four and 14 months, and to serve probation for a year.”
One thing about those tables, y’all, they always turn.
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