ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) – Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said he will turn himself in to authorities in Georgia on Wednesday.
“I’m going to Fulton County to comply with the law, which I always do,” he told reporters before leaving for Georgia. “I don’t know if I plea today but if I do I plead not guilty.”
During several legislative hearings at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020, the former mayor and Trump attorney is alleged to have promoted allegations of widespread election fraud in Georgia. Prosecutors have said Giuliani was involved a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans serve as fake electors, swearing that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
Giuliani faces 13 counts, the most serious being racketeering. Former President Donald Trump also faces 13 counts, more than the other 17 defendants in the case.
Rudy Giuliani says he is going to Georgia on Wednesday to turn himself in. (Credit: CNN Newsource)
A bond agreement has not yet been announced for Giuliani.
Last month, Giuliani admitted he made “false” statements about two Georgia election workers in the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Guiliani is also no longer contesting the factual allegations in defamation lawsuits filed by Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, the two Fulton County election workers in question.
Guiliani — who earned a national reputation not only as a fearless federal prosecutor but also as New York City mayor during the 9/11 terror attacks — has been a personal attorney for Trump in his efforts to contest the 2020 presidential election’s results.
Guiliani is also the target of a July 11 lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Columbia, in which Freeman and Moss allege Guiliani failed to turn over evidence despite several court orders to do.
Also on Wednesday, Ray Smith III surrendered at the Fulton County jail. A Georgia-based lawyer, Smith was involved…
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