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The election law forgery case against a Saginaw City Council member and a candidate for the council was bound over to trial on Friday.
The Michigan Attorney General’s Office, who is prosecuting the case, is alleging that City Councilwoman Monique Lamar-Silvia, 64, and former candidate for Saginaw City Council Eric Eggleston, 53, together forged documents in order to get Eggleston on the 2024 General Election ballot.
Lamar-Silvia signed the names of Saginaw voters fraudulently on a petition in the hopes of getting Eggleston a spot on the ballot on July 23, 2024, according to the state Attorney General’s Office. Eggleston then signed a form, falsely asserting that he circulated the petition and submitted the documents to the clerk’s office, the office says.
Eggleston faces two five-year felonies of conspiracy and election law forgery, as well as one misdemeanor charge of falsely signing a nominating petition as a circulator when he was not the circulator.
Lamar-Silvia faces two five-year felonies of conspiracy and election law forgery and two misdemeanor charges of falsely signing multiple names to a nominating petition and signing a nominating petition with a name other than her own.
Eggleston did not appear on the 2024 ballot and the Saginaw County Clerk filed a complaint of election fraud to the Department of State, which referred the matter to the state Attorney General’s Office.
A pretrial date has not been set yet.
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