The three defendants, Kenneth J. Chesebro, Michael A. Roman, and James R. Troupis, were lawyers and political aides to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign involved in planning and producing fraudulent electoral vote paperwork as part of a plot to replace or nullify the official electoral votes of the state of Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election.

In August 2023, he was one of eighteen people indicted for his role in the alleged racketeering conspiracy by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis.

Chesebro reached a plea agreement with Fulton County prosecutors on October 20, 2023, pleading guilty to a single felony count of conspiracy to file false documents, and received five years probation.

Chesebro was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal prosecution of Donald Trump for allegedly leading the conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruct the counting of electoral votes.

The case was known as Khary Penebaker et al. v. Andrew Hitt et al. After pre-trial hearings and discovery, the ten Trump electors reached a settlement with the plaintiffs on December 6, 2023, acknowledging that their votes were cast on December 14, 2020, at the behest of the Trump campaign and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and were part of an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and disrupt the peaceful transition of power.

[9] Chesebro and Troupis settled with the Penebaker plaintiffs on March 4, 2024, turning over a trove of additional documents detailing their role in the plot.

[10] On June 4, 2024, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a criminal complaint against Kenneth J. Chesebro, Michael A. Roman, and James R. Troupis.