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Meadows, 62, served as Donald Trump’s former chief of staff.
According to themagazine, however, the couple did not own the home and were, at the time, living in Virginia while Meadows worked at the White House.
AsTheNew Yorkernotes, it’s unclear whether Meadows — who served as Trump’s chief of staff from March 2020 until Trump left office in January 2021 — ever spent much time in the North Carolina house at all.
Various news outletshave reported that, per records, Meadows voted absentee in the election while his wife voted early and in person.
A spokesperson for the North Carolina Justice Department told PEOPLE that local district attorney Ashley Welch had referred the matter to the department’s Special Prosecutions Section, and it had agreed to the request.
“We have asked the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate and at the conclusion of the investigation, we’ll review their findings,” the spokesperson said.
North Carolina law stipulates that it is a felony to file a false voter registration. An attorney for Meadows has not responded to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Meadows — who helped spread the former president’s baseless fears of voter fraud in the most recent presidential election and was last year held in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to investigators looking in tothe Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection— has a history of questioning others' voting records.
Meanwhile, public records show Meadows himself has moved his own registration around, registering in North Carolina ahead of the 2020 election and registering to vote in Virginia ahead of the gubernatorial election in 2021, theVirginian Pilotreports. (TheTimesreports that Meadows is currently registered to vote both in North Carolina and Virginia.)
source: people.com
