A federal grand jury in Washington is subpoenaing Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, the New York Times and Bloomberg reported Monday.
Sources familiar with the matter told the media that the subpoena was filed in November, before Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to lead the investigation into possible efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election results.
According to the Times, the subpoena required Giuliani to turn over documents related to his work for Trump and all related payments he received. Shortly after Trump lost the race to President Joe Biden, the president’s former lawyer filed several lawsuits on his behalf to overturn the election results. The source familiar with the matter said some of the documents may be related to payments made through Trump’s fundraising effort, Save America PAC.
An aide to Giuliani told CNN, which also reported on a subpoena for Giuliani, that his client “does not know the specific claims of this so-called ‘anonymous source’ and therefore cannot respond.”
There have been no known sightings of Giuliani in federal court in Washington in recent weeks, Bloomberg noted.
It is unclear whether Smith’s office has taken over the part of the investigation surrounding Giuliani. The special counsel is currently examining whether Trump tried to interfere with the results of the 2020 election and is looking into the presence of several classified documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last summer.
Smith could wrap up the investigation soon and file charges against Trump in the coming months, sources told Bloomberg last week.
Giuliani faces a number of legal problems, including an ongoing defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems. His law license was suspended in New York in 2021 over what a court ruled were “false and misleading demonstrations” related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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