Jenna Ellis and Boris Epshteyn, both attorneys for President Trump during the 2020 election, entered not guilty pleas on Tuesday in Arizona's “fake electors” case.
They, along with 16 other defendants, face charges of forgery, fraud, and conspiracy related to alleged attempts to ‘overturn’ the ‘results’ of the 2020 election.
All 18 defendants in Arizona have now pleaded not guilty. Ellis had previously pleaded guilty in a separate election interference case in Georgia in 2023, where Trump was also indicted.
Epshteyn and Jim Lamon, a 2022 Republican Senate candidate, appeared virtually in court on Tuesday for their arraignments. Lamon also pleaded not guilty.
According to the charging documents, a month after the 2020 election, 11 Trump supporters gathered at the Arizona GOP headquarters in Phoenix to sign a certificate falsely claiming to be the state’s electors to the Electoral College.
Epshteyn, who served as an attorney and advisor for Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns, had recently appeared with Trump in New York during his hush money trial. Lamon was listed as a potential elector for Trump in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
Other prominent figures charged by a state grand jury in April in connection with this plan include Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
