Giuliani Served Arizona Indictment During Birthday Party at Palm Beach

Arizona’s attorney general says the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, has been served an indictment in the state’s fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn President Trump’s loss to President Biden in the 2020 election.Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, posted the news regarding the Trump-aligned lawyer on her X account late Friday.“The final defendant was served moments ago. @RudyGiuliani nobody is above the law,” Ms. Mayes wrote. Mr. Giuliani was reportedly served the papers during a party at Palm Beach celebrating his 80th birthday.The attorney general’s spokesman, Richie Taylor, said in an email to the Associated Press that Mr. Giuliani faces the same charges as the other defendants, including conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges.Mr. Giuliani’s political adviser, Ted Goodman, confirmed that the Trump loyalist was served Friday night after his 80th birthday celebration as he was walking to the car.“We look forward to full vindication soon,” Mr. Goodman said in a statement Saturday.The indictment alleges that Giuliani “pressured” Arizona legislators and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to change the outcome of Arizona’s election and that he was responsible for encouraging Republican electors in Arizona and six other contested states to vote for Mr. Trump.Mr. Taylor said an unredacted copy of the indictment will be released Monday. He said Mr. Giuliani is expected to appear in court Tuesday unless he is granted a delay by the court.Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is among others who have been indicted in the case.Neither Messrs. Meadows nor Giuliani were named in the redacted grand jury indictment released earlier because they had not been served with it, but they were readily identifiable based on descriptions in the document. The Arizona attorney general’s office said Wednesday that Mr. Meadows had been served and confirmed that he was charged with the same counts as the other named defendants, including conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges.With the indictments, Arizona becomes the fourth state where allies of the former president have been charged with using false or unproven claims about voter fraud related to the election.Mr. Giuliani faces other legal proceedings, and a bankruptcy judge this past week said he was “disturbed” about the status of the case and for missed deadlines to file financial disclosure reports. Mr. Giuliani filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay $148 million to two former election workers for spreading a false conspiracy theory about their role in the 2020 election.Mr. Giuliani was also indicted last year by a grand jury in Georgia, where he is accused of spearheading Mr. Trump’s efforts to compel state lawmakers in Georgia to ignore the will of voters and illegally appoint pro-Trump electoral college electors.Among the defendants are 11 Arizona Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Trump won in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election — including a former state GOP chair, a 2022 U.S. Senate candidate and two sitting state lawmakers. The other defendants are Mr. Trump’s director of Election Day operations, Mike Roman, and four attorneys accused of organizing an attempt to use fake documents to persuade Congress not to certify Biden’s victory: John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn, and Jenna Ellis.Mr. Trump himself was not charged but was referred to as an unindicted co-conspirator.The 11 people who had been nominated to be Arizona’s Republican electors met in Phoenix on December 14, 2020, to sign a certificate saying they were “duly elected and qualified” electors and claiming that Mr. Trump carried the state. A one-minute video of the signing ceremony was posted on social media by the Arizona Republican Party at the time. The document was later sent to Congress and the National Archives, where it was ignored.Mr. Biden won Arizona by more than 10,000 votes.Mr. Eastman, who devised a strategy to try to persuade Congress not to certify the election, became the first person charged in Arizona’s fake elector case to be arraigned on Friday. He pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges.Mr. Eastman made a brief statement outside the courthouse, saying the charges against him should have never been filed.“I had zero communications with the electors in Arizona (and) zero involvement in any of the election litigation in Arizona or legislative hearings. And I am confident that with the laws faithfully applied, I will be fully exonerated at the end of this process,” Mr. Eastman said. He declined further comments.Arraignments are scheduled May 21 for 12 other people charged in the case, including nine of the 11 Republicans who had submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Mr. Trump had won Arizona.The Arizona indictment said Mr. Eastman encouraged the GOP electors to cast their votes in December 2020, unsuccessfully pressured state lawmakers to change the election’s outcome in Arizona and told Vice President Pence that he could reject Democratic electors in the counting of electoral votes in Congress on January 6, 2021.Associated Press

Giuliani Served Arizona Indictment During Birthday Party at Palm Beach

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