One of the 19 indicted individuals in the attempted election theft, Kenneth Chesebro, is said to have "vamoosed" to Puerto Rico.
--------------- [from last week's Washington Post article] ------------------
VEGA ALTA, Puerto Rico -- The blinds were drawn at a handsome villa in an oceanfront gated community on the northern coast of this Caribbean island. Inside, a woman's voice could be heard calling out "Ken" -- but no one answered the door.
Records show this is the tropical refuge of Kenneth J. Chesebro, a lawyer who allegedly marshaled supporters of President Donald Trump to pose as electors in states won by Joe Biden in 2020, creating a pretext for Vice President Mike Pence to delay counting or disregard valid electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
Since then, Chesebro, 62, has kept a low profile. He decamped to Puerto Rico from New York last year, and some friends said he'd fallen out of touch. A prominent law firm issued no public announcement last year when it tapped him to run a new department and added no mention of him to its website.
...A Harvard-trained lawyer once keen on liberal causes, and registered as a Democrat as recently as 2016, Chesebro may be the least well known of the small set of figures key to both indictments.
His retreat from public life since Jan. 6 has deepened the mystery for former classmates and colleagues puzzling over how he became a central player in plans to reverse the outcome of a democratic election.
A lawyer who worked with him 20 years ago said, "The Ken I knew would not have been involved with that." -----------------------------
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reader comments --
~ Untold Russian wealth to a numbered Swiss bank account, perhaps???
~ This guy puts the RICO in Puerto Rico!
~ "Does this guy realize Puerto Rico is part of the United States and not extradition-proof North Korea?"
A Harvard legal education is overrated.
~ The 'brains' behind fake Trump electors went from a good liberal Democrat to an evil right-wing Republican criminal. You don't change your nature so either he never was a liberal or he chose the route of profiteer at everyone else's expense.
~ Hubris.
~ Overrated Ivy League credentials aside, I think it's worth noting that Chesebro seemed normal until he started working with John Eastman at the Claremont Institute, which is a sham (and shameful) right-wing, authoritarian propaganda mill posing as a legitimate, academic think tank in Southern California.
It is neither located in Claremont, CA nor is it a widely-respected authority on constitutional scholarship. It has been operating on the fringe for many years.
~ I may be foolish, but I hope Chesebro's attempt to maintain an ultra-low profile indicates that he is doing a deep self-examination about why and how his reasoning and his ethics jumped the tracks and caused a train-wreck.
John Dean did that and turned his life around. I hope Chesebro can do the same.
~ Having a "brilliant mind" and two bucks will get you on a bus. Mr. Brilliant Mind, Esq. helped organize a failed coup d'etat. He knew it was treason and he didn't care. The poor guy thinks hiding in Puerto Rico is a plan.
Hasta la vista, baby.
~ He thought that was going to keep him under the radar. Not in Puerto Rico. It's a very close knit island and everyone knows each other...
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