Attorney Kenneth J. Chesebro, who has been identified as a “mastermind” in the undermining of the 2020 election for former President Donald Trump, is a Cambridge resident.
Chesebro went to Northeastern University and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986. He’s worked as an attorney in New York, Massachusetts and California, and his LinkedIn lists him as currently in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He also has a home at 1600 Massachusetts Ave., above the Harvard University Physics Research Library.
Chesebro did not respond to requests for comment emailed, texted and delivered by phone on Thursday.
A group called Lawyers Defending American Democracy submitted an ethics complaint Oct. 12 to the Attorney Grievance Committee of New York’s Supreme Court calling Chesebro the “apparent mastermind behind key aspects of the fake elector ploy.” A similar complaint was filed in July by The 65 Project, which calls itself a “bipartisan effort to protect democracy” named after the 65 lawsuits submitted by Trump-allied lawyers to overturn the election.
A Georgia grand jury subpoenaed Chesebro in August to testify there about attempts to overturn the 2020 election, following one from the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.
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