A former New York Police Department (NYPD) commissioner who has assisted Trump’s campaign team in investigating false claims of voter fraud in 2020 will hand documents to two Georgia poll officials who are suing former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani for defamation.
Bernard Kerik gave the filing to attorneys for Fulton County poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss during the 2020 election, who sued Giuliani in December 2021 for falsely alleging they had a role in the election rigging.
Kerik has also turned his paperwork over to the special counsel investigating former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
He had claimed Trump and his 2020 campaign had privilege over documents he withheld from campaign workers’ attorneys. But at the request of the former NYPD commissioner, the Trump campaign withdrew its claims of work product privileges on a number of documents, a new court filing shows. The filing said the Trump campaign still claims attorney-client privilege on some emails.
According to the filing, Kerik agreed to take part in another deposition before August 25 on the new documents and issues that he objected to in his first deposition.
He also agreed to let campaign lawyers handle any objections to the documents. His team will not object out of privilege or refuse to answer questions from campaign workers’ attorneys.
“The parties believe at this stage that Mr Kerik’s testimony may resolve most of the remaining issues before this court,” the filing reads.
Giuliani played a central role in Trump’s push to undermine the 2020 election results.
Freeman and Moss, a mother-daughter duo who testified before the Jan. 6 House committee last summer, have faced backlash in the years since. Investigations involving three law enforcement agencies — the office of Georgia’s foreign minister and special agents from the FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation — found the allegations against the poll workers were “false and baseless.”
Kerik provides documents to the Special Counsel Jan. 6 to investigate whether the FBI abused Section 702 surveillance powers against the US Senator
Earlier this month, poll officials claimed Giuliani failed to produce evidence despite “repeated warnings” from the court and asked the court to impose “heavy” sanctions on him.
Ted Goodman, a political adviser to Giuliani, told The Hill at the time that the request was part of a “larger effort to denigrate and silence Mayor Giuliani for daring to ask questions and for challenging the accepted narrative.”
The DC Bar Association has recommended that Giuliani be barred from the Bar for “seriously undermining the administration of justice” in his efforts to prevent the 2020 election results from being confirmed.
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