Las Vegas executive faces voter fraud charges in 2020 election

A Las Vegas concern enforcement is facing 2 elector fraud charges related to the 2020 election, the lawyer general’s bureau announced Thursday.

Donald Kirk Hartle, 55, faces felony counts of voting much than erstwhile successful the aforesaid predetermination and voting utilizing different person’s name.

“Voter fraud is rare, but erstwhile it happens it undercuts spot successful our predetermination strategy and volition not beryllium tolerated by my office,” Attorney General Aaron Ford said successful a statement. “I privation to accent that our bureau volition prosecute immoderate credible allegations of elector fraud and volition enactment to bring immoderate offenders to justice.”

Both charges transportation a imaginable situation word of up to 4 years and a good of up to $5,000.

Hartle, the CFO of the Ahern household of companies, is accused of voting nether the sanction of his precocious wife, Rosemarie Hartle, who died successful 2017.

A lawyer for the Ahern household of companies could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

The authorities began investigating an allegation of a ballot being formed successful Rosemarie Hartle’s sanction past year. The lawsuit of her ballot was highlighted by the Nevada Republican Party astatine the time.

“Kirk was amazed to find that his precocious woman Rosemarie Hartle, a Republican, formed a ballot successful this year’s predetermination contempt having passed distant successful 17’,” the enactment tweeted.

The handwriting connected Rosemarie Hartle’s ballot was a lucifer for what Clark County had connected record, a region spokesperson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal past year.

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