Arizona prosecutors say former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has spent the past couple of weeks evading a notice of indictment.
The indictment is reportedly related to Giliani’s alleged participation in the fake elector scheme to attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
The former lawyer for Donald Trump was among the campaign aides and attorneys supporting former President Trump who were indicted in Arizona in April, along with eleven people who are accused of acting as “fake electors.” (RELATED: Arizona Attorney General Announces Indictments Of Meadows, Giuliani And ‘Fake Electors’)
All the other defendants have been served, either directly in person or via service to their attorneys — except for Giuliani, and “[i]t’s not for a lack of trying,” reported The Washington Post.
Richie Taylor, a spokesman for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) told the Post that the office repeatedly attempted to serve Giuliani with the summons, which is the formal legal notice of the criminal charges against him and demands he appear before a judge by May 21.
The AG’s office even monitored Giuiliani’s social media posts noting he had posted a video stream from his personal residence in New York City the day after the grand jury issued the indictment, and agents confirmed the location by matching the video with photographs of the residence from an old online real estate listing. Two agents traveled to New York City to attempt to hand-deliver the summons to Giuliani, but were unsuccessful:
A person at the building’s front desk told the agents that they were not allowed to receive service of documents. The person did not dispute that Giuliani lived there, Taylor said.
“We were not granted access,” Taylor said.
The attorney general’s office has also made multiple attempts to try to contact Giuliani by calling various phone numbers for him, “and none of them were successful,” Taylor said.
The former mayor “has hardly been in hiding,” noted the Post, Giuliani has been seen posting videos of him taunting protesters at Columbia University, plus other posts indicating he had traveled to Mar-a-Lago.
Arizona prosecutors aren’t expected to keep trying to find him in order to serve the summons.
If Giuliani continues to evade service and the May 21 appearance date passes without him, the next step is for prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant.
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