Multiple sources told ABC News that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to surrender in the Fulton County Jail on Wednesday. Giuliani’s attorneys will meet with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office early Wednesday to finalize a bond package ahead of a surrender in the Georgia election interference case.
Sources say Giuliani has secured a local attorney but is expected to be joined by his longtime friend and former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who will assist him with the trial.
Attorney John Eastman was charged and released on bail in the Fulton County Jail on Tuesday when some of the 18 defendants charged in the case alongside former President Donald Trump began turning themselves in.
Eastman told reporters on the way out of the facility that he intends to “vigorously contest each charge.”
“I am confident that if the law is diligently applied in this trial, all of my co-defendants and I will be fully rehabilitated,” he said outside the prison.
Trump and 18 others were indicted last week by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in a sweeping charge of illegal racketeering over alleged attempts to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. The former president says his actions were not illegal and the investigation is politically motivated.
In a press release late Tuesday night, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said it would be releasing mug shots of those accused in the voter fraud case at 4 p.m. each day until all the suspects turned themselves in.
Giuliani was charged with 13 counts, including violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
Eastman faces nine counts, including two counts of first-degree forgery conspiracy. The indictment names Eastman as one of those allegedly involved in a plot to induce public officials to improperly nominate Georgia presidential voters.
When asked if he still thinks the 2020 election was stolen, Eastman replied, “Absolutely, no question.”
Eastman said he is paying his own legal fees, adding that he has not spoken to Trump about the charges.
This April 11, 2023 file photo shows the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
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Eastman is also currently facing 11 disciplinary actions in California state court stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on Monday set Eastman’s bail at $100,000.
Co-defendant Scott Hall, like Eastman, was tried and released Tuesday, a day after Judge McAfee set his bail at $10,000
Hall, a Georgia bailiff, faces seven counts, including two counts of conspiracy to voter fraud. He is among those charged with conspiring to voter fraud in Coffee County.
All 19 defendants in the case are also accused of violating Georgia’s RICO law.
Trump and the other defendants have until Friday to voluntarily surrender to authorities in Atlanta.
Trump wrote on his social media platform Monday night that he intends to surrender in Georgia Thursday after Judge McAfee set the former president’s bail at $200,000 on Monday.
Trump himself faces 13 counts in the indictment, including three counts of soliciting an official to violate his oath after asking Georgia Foreign Minister Brad Raffensperger in a phone call on Jan. 2, 2021, to “get him enough votes.” “. win the state.
Co-defendant Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official charged in the case, filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday to stay the Fulton County trial, including his warrant, until after Labor Day so a judge could rule on his Motion to refer his case to federal court. A judge ruled that Willis has until 3 p.m. ET Wednesday to respond to Clark’s request.
Clark filed a separate motion to withdraw his case from federal court on the grounds that he served as a senior Justice Department official during the period alleged in the indictment. This was followed by a similar removal request filed by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows last week.
Meadows filed an emergency motion Tuesday, asking a federal judge to rule on his previous request by noon on Friday, the deadline for his surrender to the Fulton County Jail.
Also early Tuesday, co-defendant David Shafer, former Georgia GOP chairman, filed his own farewell order in federal court.
Shafer, one of Trump’s so-called “fake voters,” argues in his filing that “as a random presidential voter, Mr. Shafer was a United States official.”
The filing alleges that Shafer was accused of conduct that “rose directly out of his service as a presidential candidate” and that he was working “at the direction of the President and other federal officials.”
ABC News’ Luke Barr, Meredith Deliso, and Mark Osborne contributed to this report.
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