A sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives could face up to 45 years in prison for trying to overthrow the 2020 election results by leading a fake electors plot in Wisconsin.
Documents obtained by Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson through a public record request found that the person who booked the conference room and auxiliary room in the Wisconsin Capitol that were used to commit these crimes was none other than Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) who is now a sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wisconsin’s fifth congressional district.
The news comes as the case of the fraudulent electors in at least seven states —Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania— is heating up by the hour, noted Liberal Wisconsin blog.
The blog post cites a nonpartisan election group that found that the state’s 10 fraudulent electors may have committed at least eight felony offenses each: forgery, punishable by up to six years in prison; false swearing, punishable by up to six years in prison; falsely assuming to act as a public officer, punishable by up to 42 months in prison; simulating legal process, punishable by up to 42 months in prison; misconduct while assuming to act in public office, punishable by up to 42 months in prison, and conspiracy to commit, aiding and abetting, and attempting to commit the aforementioned activities, which carries an extra 22.5 years in prison. In total, these false electors could be facing up to 45 years in state prison on these charges.
In his emails to reserve these rooms, Fitzgerald called it a matter of “high importance.” Considering that Fitzgerald voted not to certify the election results on January 6th, his first official act as a member of Congress, it’s unlikely that he didn’t know what was going on in that room.
This is big news because he is the first sitting member of Congress to be exposed to potential criminal liability related to the fraudulent elector scheme.
During an interview on MSNBC, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said that if the DOJ decides not to charge the individuals they are investigating, his office will, the second state AG to make such a declaration after Dana Nessel of Michigan. Now, people are calling on Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul to make the same statement.
