Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at his apartment building after the suspension of his law license in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., June 24, 2021.
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A Georgia grand jury has issued subpoenas to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and the attorney Rudy Giuliani as part of an investigation of possible criminal interference in that state’s 2020 election by former President Donald Trump, a new report said Tuesday.
Also subpoenaed by the special grand jury in Fulton County were other members of Trump’s legal team in addition to Giuliani, The Atlanta Journal-Consitution reported, citing copies of those documents obtained by the newspaper.
The Journal-Constitution said that the subpoenas were filed Tuesday, and signed off on by Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who is overseeing the special grand jury, and who is required to authorize subpoenas issued to non-residents of Georgia.
CNBC has requested comment from Graham, a Republican from South Carolina.
Robert Costello, an attorney representing Giuliani, told CNBC “We don’t know anything about a subpoena. we have not been subpoenaed,” Costello said.
“We have not received any subpoena.”
Asked how he and Giuliani would respond to such a subpoena, Costello replied: “We’ll decide that if and when it comes to pass.”
The other Trump-allied lawyers who were issued subpoenas were John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesbro and Jenna Ellis, according to the report by the Journal-Constitution.
The grand jury, which was impaneled in early May, is probing an effort by Trump and allies to reverse the victory of President Joe Biden in Georgia’s 2020 election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is overseeing the investigation, told a judge in January that she had received information indicating a reasonable probability” that Georgia’s election “was subject to possible criminal disruptions.”
Willis said that information included reports that people “associated with these disruptions” contacted the state’s secretary of state, its attorney general, and the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
Trump in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call that occurred while he was still president, had urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” him enough votes to overturn Biden’s win.
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