An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday returned an indictment against Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and several others for their alleged roles in a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Eleven Arizona Republicans, including former state GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward and state Sens. Jacob Hoffman and Anthony Kern, were hit with felony charges related to the so-called “fake electors” plot, state Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Wednesday.
Seven other names were redacted in the indictment because they hadn’t been served yet.
Those individuals have been identified by multiple outlets as Meadows, Giuliani and Trump 2020 campaign-linked lawyers and advisers Jenna Ellis, John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and Michael Roman.
The charges against the 18 individuals include fraud, forgery, and conspiracy.
Meadows, Giuliani, Ellis, Eastman and Roman had previously been charged in Georgia by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over their alleged roles in an effort to overturn the Peach State’s 2020 election results. Trump, 77, was hit with 13 felony counts in the Georgia case.
Ward, Kern, Hoffman, were indicted along with Turning Points Action COO Tyler Bowyer, former Arizona GOP Executive Director Greg Safsten, energy industry executive James Lamon, former Cochise County GOP Chairman Robert Montgomery, Kelli Ward’s husband Michael Ward and Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle, Loraine Pellegrino for signing a document in December of 2020 indicating that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors and claiming that Trump defeated Joe Biden in the state.
