>> Reporting from Dodge County, I'm Zack Schulze for "Here& Now" >> In other legal news, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul this week filed felony criminal charges against three of Donald Trump's associates in connection with the false elector scheme staged following the 2020 election.

>> Specifically, the complaint charges Kenneth J. Cheseboro, Michael A Roman, and James R Troupis, with conspiring to commit the crime of uttering as genuine a forged writing or object in violation of Wisconsin statutes.

alleges a plot to flip Wisconsin's ten electoral votes from Joe Biden to Trump by forging a fake list of elector certificate s at a meeting at the state Capitol, the complaint states that on January 6th, 2021, defendants Cheseboro and Troupis exchanged messages about attempting to deliver the Unappointed elector certificate to Vice President Pence during the Joint session of Congress.

They then called defendant Roman to, quote, make sure he gets what he needs.

The fake elector certificates were never delivered to then vice President Pence.

Of the three men charged, only attorney and former judge James Troupis is a Wisconsin re sident.

The defendants are scheduled for an initial ap pearance in Dane County Circuit Court in September.

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