PHOENIX – One of the defendants in the “fake electors’’ case wants Kris Mayes disqualified from pursuing it, even if she gets a new or renewed indictment.

That’s because the attorney for Christina Bobb claims there is a financial link between the attorney general and a group that actually prepared a report for her on how to bring the charges and prosecute the case – a link that the Attorney General’s Office denies.

Thomas Jacobs contends that States United, through related organizations, indirectly provided $190,000 to a legal defense fund that Mayes had established to fight a court challenge by Republican Abe Hamadeh to her 2022 election. And Jacobs contends that was a payment to Mayes to convince her to indict his client, Bobb, and 17 others in connection on various charges related to

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