Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is now the target of a criminal probe in Fulton County, Georgia, in connection to the 2020 elections, his lawyer said on Monday.
Giuliani’s lawyer Robert Costello told Reuters that prosecutors informed Giuliani’s lawyers on Monday afternoon that he was a target of their investigation. Giuliani will refuse to answer any questions about Trump that would violate their attorney-client privilege, he said.
“If these people think he’s going to talk about conversations between him and President Trump, they’re delusional,” Costello also told the New York Times.
“This comes on the heels of us asking him probably six or seven times” whether Giuliani was being targeted in the investigation, Costello told CNN. He was referring to an official in the Fulton County District Attorney’s office and added that the office previously declined to answer their questions….