- The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to alleged fake Trump voters and a Trump campaign official, according to The Washington Post and the New York Times.
- The summons were made as part of a federal investigation into a scheme seeking to overturn the 2020 election results.
- The move comes ahead of Thursday’s January 6th hearing, during which former Justice Ministry officials are due to testify.
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The Justice Department has expanded its investigation into the Capitol riots after issuing summonses to a future Trump voter in Georgia and a Trump campaign official who worked in Arizona and New Mexico, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Arizona, Georgia and New Mexico are among the seven states on the battlefield where failed efforts to undo the election by appointing voters who support Trump have been made.
The news comes after spokesman Adam Schiff said the House of Representatives’ election commission investigating the January 6 uprising had received evidence that former President Donald Trump was involved in the aforementioned scheme.
FBI officials confirmed to The Post that agents were carrying out “court-authorized law enforcement” at home addresses that appear to belong to Brad Carver, a Georgia lawyer who reportedly claimed in an official document that he was one of the “fake” “Trump voters; and Thomas Lane, who is working on Trump’s campaign in Arizona and New Mexico.
Sean Flynn, who was a contributor to Trump’s campaign in Michigan, and David Shaffer, chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia, also received summonses, according to a report by The Times and CNN.
Justice Department officials Carver and Lane did not respond immediately to Insider’s request for comment. Carver did not immediately respond to messages from The Post for comment.
Although it was not immediately clear what information the Ministry of Justice hoped to obtain through the subpoenas, the purpose of the subpoenas suggests that the department is expanding its efforts to investigate the fraudulent voter scheme.
Earlier, federal investigators interviewed people in the orbit of Trump and the Republican Party who allegedly knew about the election conspiracy, as well as some of the 15 voters who were supposed to be Trump voters but were replaced in the day of the election college vote, according to The Post.
In March 2021, American Oversight, a DC-based observation group, received fake IDs from voters supporting Trump in seven states on the battlefield – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – in a failed attempt to falsification that Trump won the majority of votes in the state in the 2020 elections.
The fake certificates were collected by groups of Trump supporters in seven states in a failed bid to replace legitimate voters, according to American Oversight.
The development of the investigation of the Ministry of Justice comes before another hearing on Thursday by the House of Representatives on January 6, during which former employees of the Ministry of Justice must testify.
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