U.S. Attorney Launches Election Fraud Investigations and Voter Roll Audit in California
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said his office is pursuing multiple federal election fraud cases with the FBI and working with the Justice Department on a statewide voter roll audit.
New York PostU.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced on June 5, 2026 that his office has multiple election fraud investigations underway in coordination with the FBI's Los Angeles field office. Essayli stated that the office is also working with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K.
Dhillon to conduct a comprehensive audit of California's voter rolls. U.S. citizens are registered and that the case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
“California’s election system has serious structural vulnerabilities. Universal vote-by-mail with no voter ID requirements creates conditions where fraud can go undetected and unpunished, eroding public confidence,” Essayli wrote on X. “Without commenting on any specific investigation, my office has multiple election fraud investigations underway in coordination with @FBILosAngeles.
We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent,” the post continued. “We will investigate and prosecute.
Every legal vote deserves to be counted. Every illegal vote cancels one out,” he wrote. Dhillon responded on X the same day. “Teamwork/dreamwork. ” she wrote. The announcement followed President Trump's June 4 statement that Democrats were trying to steal the California gubernatorial and LA mayoral primaries and his call for a probe into slow vote counting.
Essayli referenced a May 2026 case in which an LA woman was charged with paying homeless people on Skid Row to register to vote in a 20-year scheme tied to illegal petition signature collection. Vote-count totals across Los Angeles and California slowed this week.
The California Post visited the county’s 144,000-square-foot ballot processing facility on June 4 and found dozens of empty work stations.
County officials announced on June 3 that 77,521 additional ballots had been processed since the June 2 election night, with an estimated 713,180 ballots still outstanding.
U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles.
