Rudy Giuliani, onetime attorney for Donald Trump, is expected to turn himself in to authorities in Fulton County, Georgia, on Wednesday, a day before the former president does the same thing in the racketeering case against the two men and 17 others.
Before his surrender, Giuliani will meet with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office to come up with a bond amount, sources told ABC News. Trump’s bond was set at $200,000.
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However, other outlets, such as NBC News, said Giuliani has no plan to surrender just yet, and he is traveling to Fulton County to find local counsel for his defense. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave the 19 codefendants until Friday to surrender.
Per the indictment, Giuliani encouraged Georgia officials to appoint presidential electors illegally, sometimes referred to as “fake electors,” which violated the terms of their oath of office. He also allegedly made false statements surrounding voting irregularities in the state.
The former New York City mayor is alleged to have made additional false claims, with the indictment pointing specifically to his statement that at least 96,000 mail-in ballots were counted in the 2020 presidential election, even as no records exist of those ballots being returned to the county elections office.
Also mentioned is Giuliani’s claim accusing Dominion Voting Systems machines of recording 6,000 votes for then-candidate Joe Biden when they were meant for Trump. This was found to be inaccurate in the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office’s hand audit of presidential votes cast in the state’s Antrim County.
Giuliani has called the indictment “an affront to American democracy” and said it “does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system.”
The Fulton County case involving alleged attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 election is not the first time Giuliani has run into trouble with the law by Trump’s side. While he wasn’t indicted, Giuliani was identified by several outlets as co-conspirator No. 1 in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal indictment of Trump earlier this month on charges related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
In Smith’s indictment, the unnamed co-conspirator No. 1 is described as an “attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.” Giuliani’s own attorney, Robert Costello, acknowledged that the former mayor is almost certainly the co-conspirator.
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Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, is eyeing a trial in the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case on March 4, one day before Super Tuesday. But Trump wants to delay the trial for years, presumably so that he can avoid disrupting his primary push for president and be in the Oval Office by the time it begins. Judge Scott McAfee has yet to announce a decision.
On Tuesday, attorney John Eastman and Atlanta-based bail bondsman Scott Hall, codefendants to Giuliani and Trump, surrendered in Fulton County and got their mugshots taken.
