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Kenneth Chesebro: Second Trump lawyer pleads guilty to conspiracy

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Kenneth Chesebro admits conspiracy charge in 2020 election interference case in Georgia.

By Nadine Yousif BBC News

A former lawyer to Donald Trump has pleaded guilty in an election subversion case in the US state of Georgia.

Kenneth Chesebro is the third of 19 co-defendants to plead guilty in a deal with Fulton County prosecutors.

He is accused of putting forward a slate of fake pro-Trump electors in Georgia and other states to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.

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I think it’s his street name, like Cheese in The Wire.
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  His nickname from college is “the cheese”, for real

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