Republican Election Crimes

Fraudulently listed a vacation rental she didn't live at as her official address on campaign filings

Illegally ran for county commissioner in a district she didn't live in by fraudulently asserting that she lived there

Illegally ran for county commissioner in a district she didn't live in by fraudulently asserting that she lived there

Spread fake political endorsements with the intent to harm another politician's prospects in a local election over a series of online posts and advertisements

Lied about living in the district he was later elected to represent on candidacy forms that he swore under oath under were accurate

Forged signatures on at least ten campaign finance forms he submitted so he would qualify for taxpayer money to pay for his campaign

Filed three campaign finance reports that falsely claimed he had raised $222,690 for and loaned $100k to his "Honest Gabe for Congress" campaign to give the illusion he had popular support

Illegally ran for local office and voted in a district she didn't reside in by fraudulently attesting that she lived there

Was caught on video stuffing two ballots into his sweatshirt pocket that he could later use to cast fraudulent votes during a public testing of local voting machines

Trespassed on a constituent's front porch and stole a campaign mailer sent by his political opponent and was caught laughing about his actions on the victim's doorbell camera

Violated election law by displaying the wrong election date in a newspaper advertisement targeting black voters while using the correct date in all other ads including one that was almost exactly the same but targeted white voters

Allowed an unauthorized individual to make copies of voting machine hard drives and attend a voting machine software update intended only for credentialed election officials

Conspired with others to submit forged elector paperwork that falsely asserted Donald Trump won the state of Wisconsin in the 2020 election

Illegally created a fake AI-generated phone message with what sounded like President Biden's voice that falsely told recipients they wouldn't be able to vote in the 2024 Presidential election if they voted in the state primary

Illegally retained possession of a voting machine and refused repeated commands to give it to an authorized vendor so they could conduct routine maintenance and testing

Forged "rows" of voter names, addresses and signatures on petitions he filed to qualify for the 2024 Republican primary in Arizona while also championing himself as an "election integrity warrior" who routinely espoused voter fraud conspiracy theories

Stole over $132,000 from multiple political accounts to pay for vacations with his family, housing costs and personal credit card statements by siphoning money from a loosely regulated political account that prosecutors alleged he used as his own "unregulated slush fund" into his own pocket

Illegally voted in nine elections between 2008 and 2011 while he was on probation for a prior felony conviction and ineligible to vote in Georgia while also having hypocritically spread baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and was later fined $5,000 and given a public reprimand by the judge overseeing his case

Illegally accessed at multiple voting machines used in the 2020 presidential election from numerous counties in Michigan by deceiving election officials into handing them over to her and her coconspirators

Illegally delayed certifying her county's 2022 midterm election results for weeks by citing unfounded and baseless allegations of fraud and only allowed the certification to go through after a judge ordered her to

Illegally delayed certifying the results of his county's 2022 midterm election by citing baseless allegations of supposed voter fraud

Lied to Georgia state senators about supposed voter fraud in the 2020 election and "intentionally aided and abetted" Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani after who also pushed election falsehoods to the state legislators

Conspired to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia with 16 Republicans to falsely certify Trump won the state and declare themselves the “duly elected and qualified” electors

Paid two coconspirators to illegally access voting machines in Coffee County, GA and copy voter data from the 2020 election presumably to search for anything that could back up their unhinged election conspiracy theories

Fraudulently claimed a 5-by-5-foot closet-sized space he rented for $5 a month was his official residence in order to run for office in a district he didn't actually live in

Conspired with disgraced former Congressman George Santos to submit fraudulent campaign finance reports that falsely asserted he had loaned his campaign $500,000 because it made him look wealthier than he actually was and helped him get donor funding he very likely otherwise wouldn't have received

Organized a group to illegally seize voting machines used in the 2020 election and perform "tests" on the equipment which election security experts warn compromised the machines and could have altered the votes cast on them

Led a group that illegally seized five voting machines used in the 2020 election and performed unsanctioned experiments on the equipment which election security experts warn compromised the machines and could have altered the votes cast on them

Forged thousands of fake signatures over hundreds of petitions his third-party company conducted that the State AG charged were full of “obvious fraud” and done in such a “sophomoric” way that he misspelled people's names and cities and had signatures of people who were dead or had moved and then submitted them to candidates who contracted his services and proceeded to inadvertently submit the fraudulent petition signatures to election officials

Stole $159k from his election campaign and spent it on personal expenses by routing funds through a political consulting firm that in turn paid him over a series of transactions

Illegally spent over $100,000 in campaign contributions on personal expenses and then tried to cover it up by filing numerous false tax returns

Illegally submitted dozens of phony voter registrations, absentee ballot requests and absentee ballots from members of the Vietnamese community in her district in the 2020 Iowa Republican primary in an attempt to help her husband Jeremy Taylor's campaign for the US House

Filled out and submitted eight absentee ballots for unwitting voters without their knowledge or consent by taking advantage of his position on a local elections board to access their voter information

Voted using his former invalid address instead of the one he actually lived at in a different county 60 miles away in the 2022 primary, general and U.S. Senate runoff elections

Withdrew roughly $25,000 from his wife's business account and divided it up between family members including his toddler-aged son so they could donate the money back to his campaign which he then took a salary from

Used an illegal ID card he made that implied he was a state employee to vote in multiple elections

Forged signatures on at least nine absentee voter applications for people who were unaware he was submitting the request and lied to the county clerk by attesting he had permission to deliver the applications

Stole a lawn sign that belonged to a political opponent of his while driving in a truck owned by county taxpayers mere months after being caught on video stealing the same opponent's sign from the parking lot of a private business

Cast three ballots in other people's names in a general election and in one other person's name in a primary election held in 2021

Spent roughly $100,000 in campaign donations on personal expenses that included a down payment on a home, luxury cars and childcare expenses

Illegally voted in multiple elections and even represented a district he didn't actually live in after using his parents address as his own on his voter registration

Stole a trailer's worth of his competitor's campaign signs and was caught red-handed by two of them who witnessed it

Registered to vote from NC mobile home he never visited in violation of state law that says it's illegal to vote from an address where you are not a legal resident

Forged his late wife’s name on her ballot and voted twice in the same election

Accepted a $30,200 campaign contribution from Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury through three "straw donors" and then lied to federal authorities after they confronted him about it

Falsely asserted he lived in the city of Baltimore on his official candidacy paperwork when he actually lived in the suburbs and was therefore ineligible to run for office in the city

Voted twice using two different but similar sounding names in the 2020 election

Illegally gave $44,708 to an acquaintance of his who shared the same last name as Democratic state senator to run a fake campaign as an Independent candidate with the sole intent being to confuse voters and siphon votes from the incumbent in an election which was won by Republican Ileana Garcia by just 32 votes

Pressured Georgia's Secretary of State to illegally "find 11,780 votes" that would overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state

Spent over $600,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses including his mortgage, paying off personal loans, multiple vehicles, a motor home, family vacations and a host of other things that had nothing to do with his campaign

Incited the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol by fomenting a large crowd into a frenzy and directing them to do whatever they can to stop the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential victory

Illegally funneled $40,500 in campaign contributions from an Indiana casino through "straw donors" who were reimbursed through fake consulting fees and then lied to federal officials when they questioned him about it

Illegally used a local UPS store as his legal address for voting purposes in violation of state election law

Asked people who no longer lived in her home district to break the law and vote there anyway in two different elections, one of which she only won by 117 votes

Illegally accepted two checks for $2,600 each -- the exact amount someone can legally donate to a political candidate -- from a straw donor who also happened to be cooperating with the authorities

Falsely claimed a campaign donor's home was his official address in order to run for a state congressional seat in a district he didn't live in

Conspired to illegally collect and fill out unsuspecting voters absentee and mail-in ballots to help Republican candidates in the 2018 midterm election and later lied to federal authorities when they questioned him

Filled out and submitted his ex-wife's main-in ballot for the 2016 election without her knowledge or consent which she only found out about after she attempted to vote and was informed that she already had

Forged more than 100 signatures on a candidate petition to ensure he could get on the ballot for the 2018 Republican primary

Voted in a district he no longer resided in and later unsuccessfully tried to bribe a local Housing Authority employee into falsifying a letter to election officials that attested he had only temporarily moved out of the district in exchange for a donation to the county Housing Authority

Gave $29,800 in campaign funds to a professional gambler with a long criminal record and an additional $25,000 to his wife, illegally reimbursed himself $11,946.65 from his campaign account for expenses he provided no documentation of and spent thousands more on personal expenses including an airplane ticket for his wife, custom suits, spa products, sunglasses, lawncare and paint for his home office, among many other things

Illegally spent more than $100,000 in campaign funds to invest in a wealthy GOP donor's company

Was videotaped stealing his GOP primary opponent's lawn signs in two separate locations in broad daylight after his rival campaign staked them out after many of their signs went missing presumably because numbnuts here stole them

Listed a fake address on his declaration of candidacy forms and illegally claimed a city refund of $500 on a vacant building he owned by altering official documents

Stole $250,000 from his campaign to spend on everyday personal expenses like family vacations, private school tuition and jewelry in addition to a multitude of expenses that funded at least five extramarital relationships on things like ride shares, bar tabs and hotel rooms

Filed false election documents attesting she personally gathered the requisite amount of voter signatures required for her to get on the ballot for a US Senate election and then lied to state officials when they confronted her

Fraudulently accepted at least $500k for her campaign from her husband by falsely reporting the money came from her personal accounts and accepted an additional $30k from four straw donors who concealed that he was the source of the funds

Billed $50,000 in false expense reports to his campaign by lying about driving 90,000 more miles than he actually did in reimbursement forms

Illegally used his family, employees and friends as "straw donors" to donate $100k each to two political candidates and later interfered with the criminal case by attempting to influence a government witness

Listed an address he didn't reside at on his candidacy application in violation of state law

Gave an illegal $20,000 campaign contribution to Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long using a "straw donor" and then lied to federal officials when they questioned him

Accepted $2,000 more than she legally was able to in campaign donations from an undercover agent posing as a business executive in exchange for expediting one of their development projects through the government certification process and didn't report the money in her election reports which state authorities assert is akin to stealing from her campaign

Paid two felons who weren't legally eligible to vote $2 per signature to fraudulently sign off on petitions for a local ballot proposal he supported