Former Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox, Republican strategist Stu Sandler, former Michigan Republican House Speaker Tom Leonard, and his wife, Jenell Leonard, owner of Marketing Resource Group (MRG), with Lansing-based company, which conducts public surveys, were also among those identified.

“I have been informed that my name was presented in a false and derogatory manner in public hearing,” Tom Leonard told the Advance in an emailed statement.

“I would expect the Attorney General to act quickly, as ethics require, to correct testimony, whether intentionally misleading or erroneous,” he said.

Leonard was defeated by now-Attorney General Dana Nessel in the 2018 election. He sought the Republican nomination again in 2022, but lost at the Michigan Republican convention to attorney Matt DePerno, who has been charged in a separate case with team tampering. voting after the 2020 election. Nessel won the 2022 election against DePerno.

Sandler did not respond to a request for comment; Neither did the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.

In December, Cox testified who was against the ideas within the party of presenting false results for the elections.

Wednesday marked the last day of exams for Kathleen Berden, a member of the Michigan Republican Party National Committee, Meshawn Maddock, former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, Amy Facchinello, John Haggard, Mari-Ann Henry and Michele Lundgren, six of the 15 people facing charges in the case of the false voters.

Lundgren has presented as a Republican to challenge state House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) in the 2024 election.

Exams will resume on May 28 for the remaining nine defendants.

While 16 people were initially charged with allegedly submitting false electoral votes for Donald Trump to the Senate and the US National Archives, the Charges against James Renner were dropped in October. as part of a cooperative agreement with the Michigan Attorney General.

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Each defendant faces eight counts including charges of forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, utterance and publication, conspiracy to utter and publish, falsification of election laws, and conspiracy to commit falsification of election laws. Each of the forgery-related charges carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison, while the election law-related charges carry a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison.

Other 18 people were charged in Arizona on Wednesday as part of the false voters plot, in which groups of seven states filed false documents claiming Trump won the 2020 election.

Although the names of seven accused people were removed, the Arizona Mirror reported The identities of many of the redacted defendants were obvious and included Trump, Giuliani, Meadows and Mike Roman, director of election day operations for the Trump campaign.