” Pleas with cooperation agreements both compress the number of defendants to try going forward and expand the prosecutors’ evidentiary arsenal against the higher-ups.For example, the indictment alleges that defendants David Shafer, Cathleen Alston, and Shawn Still were “fake electors,” and defendant Mike Romans was the Trump campaign official alleged to have helped orchestrate the logistics of the “fake electors” scheme.They may well have direct… [read post]