Jenna Ellis, a onetime attorney for former President Donald Trump, has agreed to a cooperation agreement with Arizona’s attorney general in the state official’s “fake electors” case.
Ellis had pleaded not guilty to fraud, forgery and conspiracy charges, but those charges will now be dropped, the Arizona attorney general's office says.
Arizona's attorney general said former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis's “insights are invaluable and will greatly aid the State in proving its case in court.”
Defendants in the Arizona fake electors case include allies of former President Donald Trump including Rudolph Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and John Eastman.
Last year, Ellis was charged in Georgia after she appeared at a December 2020 hearing hosted by state Republican lawmakers at the Georgia Capitol during which false allegations of election fraud were made.
Former President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign attorney Jenna Ellis reached a cooperation agreement with Arizona prosecutors on Monday that will result in dropping the charges against her in the so-called “fake electors” case.
Ms. Ellis is the first of 18 defendants to reach a deal with prosecutors in a case that charges them with trying to overturn Arizona’s election results in 2020.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office announced Monday that Jenna Ellis, a former Donald Trump attorney and one of the 18 defendants in the Arizona “fake electors” case stemming from the 2020 election, is cooperating with the prosecution.
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