President Donald Trump listens as Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at a roundtable event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, in Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).
As the final days of October give way to the second midterm election under President Donald Trump, the nation’s top law enforcement official has personally inserted himself into small-scale voter fraud cases against four people in Nevada, according to court records.
Beginning on Oct. 23 and up until Oct. 29, Jullie Ann Sumalinog Moore, Khalida Safi, Moneir Elzobier Ali Yousif and Mlebinge Riziki Ramadhani were each accused of one misdemeanor count of voting by alien under 18 U.S.C. §611, according to federal court records.
The allegations against the quartet, each a standalone violation, were first reported by All Rise News Editor-in-Chief Adam Klasfeld.
In each discrete case, an unexpected name tops the signature block of the charging document: Attorney General Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal attorney.
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Prosecutors charged all four misdemeanor cases by criminal information. That is, the defendants have not been indicted by a grand jury.
Affixing the name of DOJ top brass to low-level crimes is unusual to begin with, but the U.S. attorney general appearing on such a document is rarer still.
“The Attorney General himself signing a criminal information is extremely rare if it has even ever been done before,” former federal prosecutor and Westchester district attorney Mimi Rocah told All Rise News. “It raises huge red flags about why he is doing so in any particular case.”
Notably, Blanche’s actual signature does not appear on any of the court filings in question. In each case, the digital signature line bears the name of Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Anthony Lopez.
Blanche is not just putting his name on voting fraud cases.
A Law&Crime sample of filings by federal prosecutors in Nevada in October shows Blanche affixing his name to cases that run the gamut from coercion allegations (charged by an information) to a bank robbery sentencing disagreement (charged by a complaint).
While the high-profile nature of the voting fraud cases may explain Blanche’s personal investment — the DOJ sent out three different press releases referring to the four cases — there may be another factor operating on prosecutors in the Silver State.
Nevada is currently without a U.S. attorney of its own.
In a recurring controversy during the second Trump administration, the White House has given up on Senate confirmation for such positions, opting for a series of lesser appointments provided by various statutes.
First assistant U.S. attorney and special attorney Sigal Chattah currently runs the Nevada office — after a court found she was unlawfully appointed to the U.S. attorney role.
Similar dynamics have played out in jurisdictions across the country, resulting in multiple “first assistant” U.S. attorneys taking the reins of the federal law enforcement apparatus.
Even those appointments face fierce court challenges. Just this week in California’s Central District, top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli was disqualified for the second time, though the order was stayed.
In some cases where prosecutors have been tossed by courts, entire cases have also been thrown out, leaving defense attorneys to question all the cases in which since-disqualified Trump appointees signed as prosecutors.
The presence of Blanche’s name could be due to the still-uncertain strategy of forgoing confirmation for DOJ leadership positions.
But Nevada might also be a special case.
The loudly announced voter fraud prosecutions come on the heels of a recent embarrassment for the Trump administration.
Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security claimed there were some 16,000 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter rolls. Over the summer, those claims were walked back to just 185 such alleged noncitizens, until Nevada authorities determined that every one of them was actually a citizen.
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