Attorney Rudy Giuliani is pictured in this image provided by the Fulton County Jail. FULTON COUNTY
Rudy Giuliani was held at the Fulton County Jail this Wednesday. The formerly popular New York mayor and renowned attorney, a man disgraced for spreading lies about the election, appeared in court in Georgia this morning. The state accuses him of interfering in the 2020 presidential election on behalf of his boss, former President Donald Trump. Giuliani, 79, became the second defendant to turn himself in to authorities this week in a case involving 19 people on 41 counts. Trump is expected to do the same this Thursday.
The court has set bail at $150,000 for Giuliani’s release. It’s the second-highest amount after the amount the former president faced, $200,000. The former mayor, at 13, is the person in the indictment making the most charges. These range from criminal association, pressure on local officials, false testimony and conspiracy to impersonate a public official, to attempts to falsify documents and testimonies.
District Attorney Fani Willis believes the veteran Republican politician was one of the masterminds of the conspiracy aimed at reversing the election results at the company that voted for Joe Biden on election night. Georgia was one of the key states Trump had to conquer to stay in the White House, but the Republican narrowly lost. Afterward, his closest group denounced voter fraud, an accusation they made without any evidence.
“I feel very good because I believe I stand up for the rights of all Americans, as I have done many times as a prosecutor,” Giuliani said Wednesday morning outside his New York apartment. The politician assures that he “fights for justice”. The courts have already undone the judicial development of Giuliani, who last June heard a New York court revoke his license to practice law after finding he had made “provenly false allegations.” A panel at the state bar association has recommended expelling him from the organization, further hastening his downfall.
In his remarks, Giuliani criticized the court case he is facing along with 17 others, including Trump, who has not knocked him out of first place in the polls for the 2024 Republican candidacy due to the spate of court allegations, the attorney assured that it is a process politicized by District Attorney Willis, who is a member of the Democratic Party.
Willis gave the defendants a deadline on Friday to appear in court. The prosecution previously negotiated the amounts required with the defense to allow the defendants to drop out of the trial. This Tuesday, right-wing attorney John Eastman became the first to be charged in the Fulton County Jail. According to the indictment, the attorney, charged with nine counts, organized a conspiracy to elect by-laws. He and Giuliani tried to convince local lawmakers that the Republican-dominated Georgia Senate could elect representatives who, once in Washington, will change the state’s vote from Biden to Trump in the Electoral College.
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Along with Giuliani and Eastman, Scott Hall, a lender accused of breaching voting equipment in the election, has also turned himself in to authorities; Sidney Powell, a former prosecutor who repeated various lies about the election, and attorneys Ray Smith and Kenneth Chesebero, who lent themselves to Eastman’s conspiracy.
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