亚特兰大-鲁迪·朱利安尼是当时总统可能的非法企图的刑事调查的目标唐纳德·特朗普还有人来干涉2020年的换届选举在佐治亚州，检察官周一通知了前纽约市长的律师。

富尔顿县地方检察官法尼·威利斯(Fani Willis)的调查显示，直言不讳的特朗普辩护人朱利安尼(Giuliani)可能面临刑事指控，这使得调查更加接近这位前总统。威利斯表示，她正在考虑传唤特朗普本人在特别大陪审团面前作证，这位前总统已经在亚特兰大聘请了一名刑事辩护律师。

对特朗普的执法审查急剧升级。上周，联邦调查局搜查了他在佛罗里达州的家，作为调查他是否将机密记录从白宫带到Mar-a-Lago的一部分。他还在纽约面临民事调查，指控他的公司特朗普集团(Trump Organization)在他的资产价值上误导了银行和税务当局。司法部正在调查1月6日特朗普支持者在美国国会大厦发动的起义，以及特朗普及其盟友推翻他谎称被盗的选举的努力。

朱利安尼在领导佐治亚州挑战选举的努力时，散布了关于亚特兰大富尔顿县选举舞弊的虚假指控，他将于周三在一个应威利斯的要求而组成的特别大陪审团面前作证。朱利安尼的律师拒绝透露他是否会回答问题或拒绝。

朱利安尼的律师罗伯特·科斯特洛周一表示，特别检察官内森·韦德提醒朱利安尼在亚特兰大的团队，他是一个调查目标。《纽约时报》首先报道了这一消息。

朱利安尼星期一在纽约电台节目中说，他一直在佐治亚州担任特朗普的律师。

“你这样对待律师，我们就没有美国了，”他说。

周一早些时候，一名联邦法官说。林赛·格雷厄姆必须在特别大陪审团面前作证。检察官表示，他们想询问格雷厄姆在选举后几周内与佐治亚州国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格及其工作人员通话的情况。

威利斯的调查是由特朗普和拉芬斯珀格之间的一个电话引发的。在2021年1月的那次谈话中，特朗普建议Raffensperger“找到”扭转他在该州微弱失利所需的选票。

威利斯上个月提交了请愿书，试图迫使特朗普的七名助手和顾问作证。

在寻求朱利安尼的证词时，威利斯认为他既是特朗普的私人律师，也是他竞选活动的首席律师。她写道，他和其他人出现在州参议院委员会的一次会议上，并出示了一段视频，朱利安尼说，这段视频显示选举工作人员在选举投票观察员的视线之外，制作了来自不明来源的非法选票。

在2020年12月3日听证会的24小时内，Raffensperger的办公室揭穿了该视频。威利斯写道，但朱利安尼继续向公众发表声明，并在随后的立法听证会上声称使用被揭穿的视频进行广泛的选民欺诈。

证据显示，朱利安尼的听证会和证词是“特朗普竞选团队影响2020年11月佐治亚州和其他地方选举结果的多州协调计划的一部分，”她的请愿书说。

视频中的两名选举工作人员，鲁比·弗里曼和旺德雷·“叶莎”·莫斯说，在视频于12月3日在朱利安尼出席的佐治亚州立法听证会上播放后，他们在网上和个人面前受到了无情的骚扰。在一周后的另一次听证会上，朱利安尼说，录像显示这些女人“偷偷摸摸地在USB接口周围走来走去，就好像她们是装海洛因或可卡因的小瓶一样。”他们实际上是在传递一块糖。

威利斯还在一份寻求律师肯尼斯·切塞布罗证词的请愿书中写道，他与朱利安尼合作，协调并实施了一项计划，让佐治亚州的共和党人充当假选举人。这16人签署了一份证书，虚假地宣布特朗普赢得了2020年总统大选，并宣布自己是该州“正式选举产生的合格”选举人，尽管乔·拜登赢得了该州，一批民主党选举人获得了资格。

威利斯在上个月的一份法庭文件中表示，所有16名假选民都收到了信件，称他们是调查的目标。

至于格雷厄姆，这位南卡罗来纳州共和党人的律师辩称，他作为美国参议员的身份为他提供了不必在调查小组面前出现的豁免权。但是美国地方法院法官李·马丁·梅(Leigh Martin May)周一在一项命令中写道，与他作为参议员的角色有关的豁免权并不能保护他免于作证。格雷厄姆的传票指示他在8月23日出席特别大陪审团，但他的办公室周一表示，他计划上诉。

上个月，梅拒绝了美国共和党众议员乔迪·希塞(Jody Hice)的类似尝试。，以避免在特别大陪审团面前作证。

格雷厄姆的办公室周一在一份声明中说，参议员不同意法官对宪法条款的解释，他认为宪法条款保护他免受州官员的质疑。他的律师表示，他正在进行调查，这是他立法职责的一部分，与投票认证和选举相关立法提案有关。

但法官写道，这忽略了“电话中的个人公开表示，格雷厄姆参议员不只是在进行立法事实调查，而是建议或暗示佐治亚州选举官员改变他们的程序，或者以其他方式潜在地改变该州的结果。”

威利斯在一份请愿书中写道，在2020年大选后不久的电话中，格雷厄姆“询问拉芬斯珀格及其工作人员重新检查格鲁吉亚的某些缺席选票，以探索对前总统唐纳德·特朗普更有利的结果的可能性”。

格雷厄姆还“提到了对2020年11月佐治亚州大选中普遍存在选民欺诈的指控，这与特朗普竞选团队的已知附属机构发表的公开声明一致，”她写道。

全国各地的共和党和民主党州选举官员、法院甚至特朗普的司法部长都发现，没有证据表明选民欺诈足以影响他2020年总统选举失败的结果。

当国会于2021年1月6日召开会议，根据《选举计票法》认证结果时，特朗普的盟友立法者正计划挑战几个战场州的计票结果，但在当天国会大厦遇袭后，佐治亚州的计票结果从未受到质疑。

特朗普否认有任何不当行为，并形容他给Raffensperger的电话“完美”。

Giuliani targeted in criminal probe of 2020 election

ATLANTA --Rudy Giuliani is a target of the criminal investigation into possible illegal attempts by then-PresidentDonald Trumpand others to interfere in the 2020 generalelectionin Georgia, prosecutors informed attorneys for the former New York mayor on Monday.

The revelation that Giuliani, an outspoken Trump defender, could face criminal charges from the investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis edges the probe closer to the former president. Willis has said she is considering calling Trump himself to testify before the special grand jury, and the former president has hired a criminal defense attorney in Atlanta.

Law enforcement scrutiny of Trump has escalated dramatically. Last week, the FBI searched his Florida home as part of its investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. He is also facing a civil investigation in New York over allegations that his company, the Trump Organization, misled banks and tax authorities about the value of his assets. And the Justice Department is investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters as well as efforts by him and his allies to overturn the election he falsely claimed was stolen.

Giuliani, who spread false claims of election fraud in Atlanta's Fulton County as he led election-challenging efforts in Georgia, is to testify Wednesday before a special grand jury that was impaneled at Willis' request. Giuliani's lawyer declined to say whether he would answer questions or decline.

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade alerted Giuliani’s team in Atlanta that he was an investigation target, Giuliani attorney Robert Costello said Monday. News of the disclosure was first reported by The New York Times.

Speaking on a New York radio show Monday, Giuliani said he had been serving as Trump's attorney in Georgia.

“You do this to a lawyer, we don't have America anymore,” he said.

Earlier Monday, a federal judge said U.S. Sen.Lindsey Grahammust testify before the special grand jury. Prosecutors have said they want to ask Graham about phone calls they say he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff in the weeks following the election.

Willis’s investigation was spurred by a phone call between Trump and Raffensperger. During that January 2021 conversation, Trump suggested that Raffensperger “find” the votes needed to reverse his narrow loss in the state.

Willis last month filed petitions seeking to compel testimony from seven Trump associates and advisers.

In seeking Giuliani’s testimony, Willis identified him as both a personal attorney for Trump and a lead attorney for his campaign. She wrote that he and others appeared at a state Senate committee meeting and presented a video that Giuliani said showed election workers producing “suitcases” of unlawful ballots from unknown sources, outside the view of election poll watchers.

Within 24 hours of that Dec. 3, 2020, hearing, Raffensperger’s office had debunked the video. But Giuliani continued to make statements to the public and in subsequent legislative hearings claiming widespread voter fraud using the debunked video, Willis wrote.

Evidence shows that Giuliani’s hearing appearance and testimony were "part of a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” her petition says.

Two of the election workers seen in the video, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, said they faced relentless harassment online and in person after it was shown at a Dec. 3 Georgia legislative hearing where Giuliani appeared. At another hearing a week later, Giuliani said the footage showed the women “surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine.” They actually were passing a piece of candy.

Willis also wrote in a petition seeking the testimony of attorney Kenneth Chesebro that he worked with Giuliani to coordinate and carry out a plan to have Georgia Republicans serve as fake electors. Those 16 people signed a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors even thoughJoe Bidenhad won the state and a slate of Democratic electors was certified.

All 16 of those fake electors have received letters saying they are targets of the investigation, Willis said in a court filing last month.

As for Graham, attorneys for the South Carolina Republican have argued that his position as a U.S. senator provides him immunity from having to appear before the investigative panel. But U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May wrote in an order Monday that immunities related to his role as a senator do not protect him from having to testify. Graham's subpoena instructs him to appear before the special grand jury on Aug. 23, but his office said Monday he plans to appeal.

May last month rejected a similar attempt by U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., to avoid testifying before the special grand jury.

Graham's office said in a statement Monday that the senator disagrees with the judge's interpretation of the provision of the Constitution he believes protects him from being questioned by a state official. His lawyers have said he was making inquiries that were part of his legislative duties, related to certification of the vote and to a proposal of election-related legislation.

But the judge wrote that that ignores "the fact that individuals on the calls have publicly suggested that Senator Graham was not simply engaged in legislative factfinding but was instead suggesting or implying that Georgia election officials change their processes or otherwise potentially alter the state’s results.”

In calls made shortly after the 2020 general election, Graham “questioned Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote in a petition.

Graham also “made reference to allegations of widespread voter fraud in the November 2020 election in Georgia, consistent with public statements made by known affiliates of the Trump Campaign,” she wrote.

Republican and Democratic state election officials across the country, courts and even Trump's attorney general have found there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to affect the outcome of his 2020 presidential election loss.

Trump-allied lawmakers were planning to challenge the tallies from several battleground states when Congress convened on Jan. 6, 2021, to certify the results under the Electoral Count Act, but after the Capitol attack that day Georgia’s tally was never contested.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has described his call to Raffensperger as “perfect.”