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据一名执法官员及另一名知情人士透露，马克·伊莱亚斯——这位长期任职的民主党律师、特朗普政府的公开反对者——是司法部一项刑事调查的目标。该调查针对的是民主党人是否试图通过招募与共和党参议员丹·沙利文同名的候选人，在阿拉斯加误导选民。
多位消息人士透露，伊莱亚斯只是收到司法部发来的目标函、证据保全函或大陪审团传票的众多人士之一。这项调查由阿拉斯加联邦检察官办公室牵头，民权司刑事部门的检察官也参与其中。
调查迄今已发出约20份目标函和证据保全函。一名执法消息人士告诉CBS新闻，与此同时，民主党参议院竞选委员会（DSCC）单独收到了一份大陪审团传票。
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近日，特朗普总统在社交媒体上公开发言谴责伊莱亚斯，并呼吁对其提起诉讼。
“没人会感到意外，特朗普领导的司法部竟在选举日当天针对我和我的律所展开调查，”伊莱亚斯在给CBS新闻的一份声明中表示。
“本届政府一再将司法部用作打压总统政治对手的工具，且始终拿不出任何不当行为的证据，而我们成了最新的目标。”
他补充称，其创立的伊莱亚斯律师事务所”引以为豪”地将自己归入特朗普的政治对手行列，并表示他们”自豪”地为那些反击特朗普政府的民主党竞选活动和进步团体提供代理服务。
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“我们不会被这场虚假调查吓倒，”他说，”我们会继续加班加点支持客户，确保特朗普及其政党在选举中遭遇当之无愧的惨败。”
联邦检察官尚未说明他们正在调查何种罪行。
上周，白宫政策副幕僚长斯蒂芬·米勒在接受福克斯新闻采访时暗示，他们可能会调查违反《18号美国法典第241条》的行为——该民权法规规定，两人或两人以上合谋威胁或恐吓任何自由行使宪法或联邦权利的行为均属违法。
这些近日发出的函件和传票的时间，似乎与司法部自身针对全国大选前调查步骤的内部指导方针和历史规范相抵触。
多名知情人士告诉CBS新闻，司法部民权司刑事部门代理主管布兰登·罗布莱斯基曾亲自前往阿拉斯加招募联邦助理检察官协助调查，但部分检察官拒绝参与或表示不愿介入此事。
法院指定的阿拉斯加联邦检察官迈克尔·海曼上周采取了不同寻常的举措，与安克雷奇联邦调查局外勤主管一同举行记者会，公开披露一项刑事调查的存在。该调查针对的是民主党参议院候选人玛丽·佩托拉的工作人员是否协助招募独立候选人丹尼尔·J·沙利文，以误导共和党选民。
《纽约时报》报道称，佩托拉竞选团队的律师以及民主党参议院竞选委员会的高级助理参与了此次招募工作，调查在该报道发布后迅速推进。
这种堆砌选票的策略过去曾被两党成员采用，虽有争议，但通常不被视为违法。佩托拉的竞选团队和民主党参议院竞选委员会均否认与将丹尼尔·J·沙利文列入选票的行动有任何关联。
“这一新信息已导致大量执法资源显著调集至阿拉斯加，我也已指派办公室内几名律师协助处理此事，”海曼周五表示，并补充道：”目前，全国执法部门正针对这些事项的刑事调查采取行动。”
海曼否认司法部正在升级调查或试图配合选举时间节点采取行动，并指出《纽约时报》的公开报道是调查活动增多的依据。
他周五对记者表示：”除了一篇新报道发布外，我们没有采取任何升级措施。”
“这一事件已暗中酝酿了数月，本意并非要升级事态。但在调查前夕出现的选举诚信核心相关指控，即便发生在选举前几天，我们也会认真对待。”
伊莱亚斯及其律师团队参与了90多起投票及选举诉讼，其中包括数十起对司法部获取未公开选民名册并筛查可能的非公民选民努力的挑战。
他还参与了阿拉斯加的一起民事诉讼，司法部曾试图在中期选举共和党参议员丹·沙利文落败时，阻止该州参议院选举结果的认证。
一名美国地区法官周日驳回了司法部的诉讼，裁定其缺乏提起诉讼的资格。
周末期间，特朗普称让第二名沙利文登上选票的行为是”骗局”和民主党人的”骗局”，是参议员查克·舒默和伊莱亚斯策划的。
“这事是舒默搞的。我是说，确实始于舒默和律师马克·伊莱亚斯。我认为他们应该为此承担刑事责任，”特朗普表示。
伊莱亚斯是近期司法部多项刑事调查中被针对的特朗普政治对手之一。
近期，检察官还获得了搜查民主党明尼苏达州众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔华盛顿住所的搜查令，作为可能涉及移民欺诈调查的一部分。
他们还试图以向国会撒谎为由起诉两名前联邦调查局高级官员，撒谎内容涉及其在该机构对亨特·拜登调查中的角色；并试图对前白宫助手卡西迪·哈钦森提起公诉，后者在众议院调查国会山骚乱事件的委员会中作证，披露了唐纳德·特朗普在骚乱期间的不利行为。
大陪审团决定不起诉哈钦森，一名联邦治安法官驳回了对前联邦调查局官员的指控，称其缺乏合理依据，且这起起诉看似出于政治动机，且特意安排在中期选举期间进行。
Democratic attorney and Trump foe Marc Elias is a target of DOJ’s Alaska ballot investigation, sources say
2026-11-03T14:59:00-0500 / CBS News
Marc Elias, a longtime Democratic attorney and vocal opponent of the Trump administration, is a target in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into whether Democrats sought to confuse voters in Alaska by recruiting a candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan, according to a law enforcement official and a second source familiar with the matter.
Elias is just one of a number of individuals who received either target letters, preservation letters or grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department in connection with the investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alaska and also involves prosecutors from the Civil Rights Division’s criminal section, multiple sources said.
Approximately 20 target and preservation letters have been issued to date in the probe. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, meanwhile, has separately received a grand jury subpoena, a law enforcement source told CBS News.
CBS News has reached out to the DSCC for comment.
President Trump in recent days has made public statements denouncing Elias on social media and calling for his prosecution.
“No one should be surprised that President Trump’s Department is targeting me and my law firm on Election Day,” Elias said in a statement to CBS News.
“This administration has repeatedly weaponized the DOJ against the President’s political enemies despite zero evidence of wrongdoing, and we are the latest targets.”
He added that his firm, Elias Law Group, “proudly” counts itself among Mr. Trump’s political enemies and said they are “proud” to represent Democratic campaigns and progressive groups that fight back against his administration.
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“We will not be intimidated by a sham investigation,” he said. “We are going to keep working around the clock to support our clients and make sure President Trump and his party enjoy a well-deserved beating at the ballot box.”
Federal prosecutors have not articulated what crimes they are investigating.
Last week, Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, suggested during an appearance on Fox News that they could investigate violations of 18 USC 241 — a civil rights statute that makes it unlawful for two or more people to conspire to threaten or intimidate anyone freely exercising their constitutional or federal rights.
The timing of the letters and subpoenas, which were sent out in recent days, appear to run afoul of the Justice Department’s own internal guidelines and historic norms limiting investigative steps ahead of a national election.
Brandon Wrobleski, the acting chief of the criminal section at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has personally sought to recruit assistant U.S. attorneys in Alaska to assist with the probe, but some have declined or expressed discomfort about getting involved, several sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Michael Heyman, the court-appointed U.S. Attorney in Alaska, took the unusual step last week of holding a press conference along with the FBI’s special agent in charge in Anchorage in which he publicly disclosed the existence of a criminal investigation into whether operatives for Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola helped recruit independent candidate Daniel J. Sullivan in a bid to confuse Republican voters.
The investigation picked up steam shortly after The New York Times reported that Peltola campaign’s lawyers, as well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, were involved in the recruitment effort.
Such ballot-stacking tactics have been used in the past by members of both political parties and, while controversial, are generally not considered illegal. Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have denied any connection to the effort to put Daniel J. Sullivan on the ballot.
“This new information has resulted in a significant surge of law enforcement assets to Alaska, and I have assigned several attorneys in my office to assist in the matter as well,” Heyman said on Friday, adding: “As we speak, law enforcement around the country are taking investigative steps with respect to a criminal investigation on these matters.”
Heyman denied that the Justice Department was escalating its investigation or attempting to time its actions around the election, and cited the public reporting by the New York Times as the basis for the increased activity.
“We’re not escalating anything except to the extent that a new article came out,” he told reporters on Friday.
“This has been going on, you know, sort of quietly for several months, with the intent not to escalate anything. But to the extent that there are allegations that are made on the eve of the investigation that can go to the heart of the induction integrity, we are going to take it seriously — even if it is a few days before the election.”
Elias and his team of lawyers have been involved in over 90 voting and election lawsuits, including dozens of challenges to the Justice Department’s efforts to access unredacted voter rolls so they could be screened for possible non-citizens.
He is also involved in the civil litigation in Alaska, in which the Justice Department sought to block certification of the state’s Senate election results in the midterm elections if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.
A U.S. district judge dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit on Sunday, finding it lacked standing to bring the case.
Over the weekend, Mr. Trump called the efforts to get the second Sullivan onto the ballot a “fraud” and a “Democrat con job” that was perpetrated by Senator Charles Schumer and Elias.
“It was done by Schumer. I mean, that really started with Schumer and the lawyer, Marc Elias. And I think they should be held criminally responsible for it,” Trump said.
Elias is one of several of Mr. Trump’s political adversaries who have been targeted in recent DOJ criminal investigations.
Recently, prosecutors also obtained a search warrant for Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington, as part of an investigation into possible immigration fraud.
They also sought to charge two former senior FBI officials for lying to Congress about their roles in the bureau’s Hunter Biden investigation and they tried to secure an indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who gave damaging testimony about President Donald Trump’s actions during the attack on the U.S. Capitol to a House committee probing the event.
The grand jury declined to indict Hutchinson, and a federal magistrate judge dismissed the complaint against the former FBI officials, saying it lacked probable cause and appeared to be a politically-motivated prosecution that was intentionally timed with the midterm elections.
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