Were any Turning Point USA board members under investigation or charged with crimes in 2024–2025?

1. What the reporting actually documents: indictments and misdemeanor charges tied to TPUSA affiliates

Journalists citing organizational materials and court filings reported that Tyler Bowyer, described as chief operating officer of Turning Point Action (the related 501(c)^[5] arm), was indicted on nine charges in connection with the 2020 Arizona “fake electors” matter on April 24, 2024 ^[1]. Separately, two people identified as Turning Point USA members were charged after an April 2024 assault on a queer professor: one defendant faced misdemeanor assault, harassment and disorderly conduct charges and the other misdemeanor harassment; reporting noted one individual was not charged and TPUSA’s communications framed diversion as a legal tactic ^[2].

2. What the sources do not show: no evidence in these files of board-member charges in 2024–2025

The assembled sources do not identify any sitting national TPUSA board member being charged or formally under criminal investigation in 2024–2025. The explicit indictment referenced concerns a Turning Point Action executive (Bowyer) rather than a TPUSA board director, and the assault charges involve individual members or staff rather than board trustees; the sources do not mention criminal charges against board members ^{[1] [2]}. Available sources do not mention any TPUSA board member being criminally charged in the covered period.

3. Distinguish entities: TPUSA vs. Turning Point Action

Reporting and organizational pages in the dataset separate Turning Point USA (the 501(c)^[6] education/advocacy nonprofit) from Turning Point Action (the 501(c)^[5] political arm). The April 2024 indictment cited in the materials is tied to Turning Point Action’s COO — an affiliated but legally distinct organization — which matters legally and politically when attributing responsibility ^[1]. Governance pages and team listings in the organization’s own materials are included in the results but do not, in these sources, show board members under criminal charges ^{[7] [8]}.

4. Probes and document-preservation demands are not the same as board-member charges

In November 2025, multiple sources report a Department of Justice investigation into protests at a UC Berkeley Turning Point event; the DOJ’s notice required preservation of records “including communications among administrators and board members” ^{[3] [4]}. That demand for preservation and a federal inquiry into university handling of protests is distinct from a criminal investigation or indictment of TPUSA board members; the available reporting frames the probe as focused on the university’s actions, crowd control and potential civil-rights issues rather than on TPUSA board criminality ^{[3] [4]}. Available sources do not say DOJ was investigating TPUSA board members themselves ^[3].

5. Context and competing perspectives in the coverage

News outlets in the set present multiple angles: court records and indictments about “fake electors” are reported as criminal charges against an Action executive ^[1], while coverage of campus incidents mixes local reporting of arrests, university statements and national commentary about free speech and security ^{[3] [9]}. TPUSA’s own statements (quoted in coverage of the April 2024 assault) defended members and framed legal outcomes like diversion as routine legal tactics ^[2]. The supplied sources include organizational pages that list leadership and governance but do not connect named board directors to criminal cases in 2024–2025 ^{[7] [8]}.

6. Limitations, open questions, and where reporting is thin

These sources are uneven: some are focused on legal indictments ^[1], others on campus protests and federal inquiries that reference preservation of communications involving board members ^{[4] [3]}, and some are organizational bios or databases that list leadership ^{[7] [10]}. They do not provide a comprehensive legal docket search for every board member, and they do not claim to exhaust all investigations or charges nationwide; therefore, absence of mention in these sources is not a definitive proof that no investigations existed beyond what’s cited — only that the provided reporting does not document board-member criminal charges in 2024–2025 (not found in current reporting).

If you want, I can search more widely (court dockets, local reporting, and national outlets) to confirm whether any TPUSA board members were investigated or charged beyond the materials provided here.