North Carolina’s attorney general and the state’s investigative office are investigating whether former President Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows committed electoral fraud in the 2020 election.
The allegation of election fraud arose after the New Yorker reported that Meadows had registered to vote in 2020 with the address of a mobile home that neither lived nor owned.
District Attorney Ashley Welch, who represents the area where the house is located, referred the case to the Special Proceedings Section of the North Carolina Department of Justice. Welch refrained from investigating Meadows herself because she had contributed to her campaign and appeared in ads on her behalf in 2014.
The state attorney general’s office referred the case to the State Bureau of Investigation, which confirmed its investigation Friday. This was first reported by WRAL.
“Upon completion of the investigation, we will review its findings,” said Nazneen Ahmed, a spokesman for the North Carolina Attorney General.
Meadows and his wife voted absent in the 2020 election. They currently live in Virginia.
A Meadows spokesman did not respond.
Welch said she was not aware of any allegations of election fraud surrounding Mark Meadows until she was contacted by the media.
“The allegations in this case involve potential offenses committed by a government official,” Welch wrote in his letter to Leslie Dismukes, a lawyer in the North Carolina Department of Justice’s Special Prosecution Unit.
“Historically, I have asked the Attorney General’s Office to deal with cases involving alleged misconduct by government officials. [in] it is in the best interests of the judiciary and in the best interests of the people of North Carolina for the Attorney General’s office to deal with the prosecution of this case, “he added.
Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, was Trump’s last chief of staff. He has supported baseless claims that widespread election fraud led to “stolen” elections in 2020. The House voted for Meadows in criminal contempt in Congress for refusing to serve a subpoena to appear before the elected committee of the House investigating the January 6 bombing of the United States Capitol.
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