Former Chapman University Law School dean John Eastman was named in a grand jury indictment handed down in Fulton County, Georgia, accusing former President Donald Trump and others of racketeering in an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Eastman is accused of participating in an alleged scheme to have an alternate slate of electors from Georgia favorable to Trump represent the state in the Electoral College after President Joe Biden won the state, which was key to his victory.
In the 98-page indictment, Eastman is accused of sending an email to co-defendant Robert David Cheeley, “unindicted co-conspirator Individual 8, whose identity is known to the grand jury, and (Georgia state Sen. Brandon Beach) that stated that the Trump presidential elector nominees in Georgia needed to meet on Dec. 14, 2020, sign six sets of certificates of vote, and mail them ‘to the President of the Senate and to other officials.’ This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
The indictment alleges Cheeley said in an email, “Professor Eastman told me tonight that it is critical that the 16 electors for President Trump meet next Monday and vote in accordance with (the meeting of Electoral College).”
The indictment further alleges Eastman urged for a meeting of the electors loyal to Trump by Dec. 14 and that they sign six sets of certificates of vote and get them over to the president of the state Senate.
The indictment also alleges there were attempts to set up a call with the speaker of the state House of Representatives in Georgia and president pro tem of the state senate.
Eastman was also accused of sending another former Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani, a memo titled “The Real Deadline for Settling a State’s Electoral Votes,” which was written by another attorney, Kenneth John Chesebro, who was also named in the indictment, in regards to slating alternate electors in Wisconsin, which Biden also won.
