US investigators zone in on Trump election-plot lawyer John Eastman
by Peter Stone in Washington from on (#6CPR9)
Experts say Eastman, faces possible disbarment in California, under increasing scrutiny in federal and state inquiries
John Eastman, who was in the vanguard of lawyers plotting schemes involving fake electors" and other ploys to help Donald Trump thwart Joe Biden's win in 2020, is now under close scrutiny in federal and state investigations of Trump's drives to stay in power, and faces possible disbarment in California, say former prosecutors.
The former California law professor is one of several lawyers whose legal stratagems have been heavily examined by Special Counsel Jack Smith's accelerating investigation into Trump and his allies' efforts to block Biden from taking office.
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