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Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal
As they worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 election defeat, the lawyers asked a forensic data firm to access county election systems in at least three battleground states, according to the documents and interviews. The firm charged an upfront retainer fee for each job, which in one case was $26,000.
Attorney Sidney Powell sent the team to Michigan to copy a rural county’s election data and later helped arrange for it to do the same in the Detroit area, according to the records. A Trump campaign attorney engaged the team to travel to Nevada. And the day after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol the team was in southern Georgia, copying data from a Dominion voting system in rural Coffee County.
Rudy Giuliani target of Georgia 2020 election criminal probe: report
Rudy Giuliani is being criminally investigated in Georgia for allegedly attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 election on behalf of former President Donald Trump, according to a Monday report.
Lawyers for Giuliani told the New York Times that their client was informed he was a target of the investigation Monday, joining at least 17 other people. Giuliani attorney Robert Costello was originally told his client would be a material witness in the probe, but later learned he was in fact a “target,” according to NBC News.
The former New York mayor, who did not immediately return The Post’s request for comment, is scheduled to appear before a grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., on Wednesday. Giuliani’s order to testify came after he failed to appear at a July hearing to challenge his subpoena.
The report emerged the same day that a federal judge ordered Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to testify before the panel, denying Graham’s claim of congressional immunity.
Graham had been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury to discuss phone calls he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the senator allegedly asked about re-examining absentee ballots in the state “to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.”
Lawyers for Giuliani have repeatedly insisted he did nothing illegal and will cooperate with any investigations.
The embattled former mayor’s efforts to overturn the Georgia election results are already widely documented, particularly in the New York State appellate court report that resulted in the suspension of his law license.
The report said there was “uncontroverted evidence” that Guiliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020.”
“These false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client,” the report said.
Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is suing Verizon to block the release of her phone records to the Jan. 6 committee
- The January 6 committee subpoenaed Verizon for Sidney Powell's phone records, court filings show.
- Powell is seeking to block the subpoena, citing privacy concerns and attorney-client privilege.
- Powell spread false and unproven claims of election fraud in 2020 and filed multiple failed lawsuits.
Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for former President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Verizon, in an attempt to block the company from providing her phone records to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
The January 6 committee subpoenaed Verizon on February 1 for records related to multiple phone numbers, seeking records from November 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021, according to the lawsuit. Verizon informed Powell on February 4 that some of the phone numbers belonged to her.
The lawsuit, which was viewed by Insider, argues that the committee does not have the authority to seek Powell's records and that it is trying to act beyond its legal scope as an "inquisitorial tribunal seeking evidence of criminal activity." It also cites privacy concerns and attorney-client privilege as arguments for withholding the records, among others.
Powell is asking the court to declare the subpoena unlawful and unenforceable and to prohibit Verizon from handing over the records.
An attorney for Powell and a representative for Verizon did not respond to Insider's request for comment.
Powell served for a time on Trump's legal team in the wake of the 2020 election before his campaign fired her. She was a vocal proponent of false or unproven claims of mass voter and election fraud, filing multiple lawsuits in battleground states, which she compared to releasing "the Kraken," in an attempt to overturn President Joe Biden's wins. All the lawsuits failed.
Powell is facing defamation lawsuits worth more than $4 billion over the fraud claims, especially those that accused election-technology companies Dominion and Smartmatic of wrongdoing. Legal filings later showed that an internal Trump campaign memo dismissed theories about the two companies, but Powell continued to make the claims publicly.
Representatives for Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the January 6 committee, did not respond to requests for comment on the subpoena for Powell's phone records.
In January, the committee issued a subpoena to Powell, along with other Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Boris Epshteyn, seeking documents and testimony.
Thompson said in a statement at the time that the four lawyers "advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes."
The committee's announcement said Powell pushed failed election lawsuits in an attempt to overturn the election results and "actively promoted" election fraud claims on behalf of Trump.
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