2:12 p.m. Wednesday
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Wednesday afternoon in Atlanta.
The former personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump was taken in minutes after his attorneys negotiated a $150,000 bond for him, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
He was accompanied to Atlanta by former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, CBS News reported. The longtime Giuliani ally was not one of the 19 defendants in the Fulton County case.
“I am being indicted because I’m his lawyer,” Giuliani said, referring to the former president and the 98-page indictment. “These allegations are completely false.”
Trump has said will turn himself in on Thursday after agreeing to a $200,000 bond. CNN reported he will leave his Bedminster golf club in the afternoon and return to New Jersey after his surrender.
12:45 p.m.
Dallas attorney Sidney Powell surrendered Wednesday morning at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail.
Powell, who was indicted with former President Donald Trump on charges related to the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, was granted a $100,000 bond, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
She is facing charges for violations of the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act; conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy, computer trespass, and computer theft; conspiracy to defraud the state, and two counts of conspiracy to commit election fraud.
Powell previously said she stood by her actions in contending the 2020 election was fraudulent. She told the January 6 committee that she believed the Capitol breach was staged by “Antifa” or the FBI, The Texas Tribune reported.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani is expected to surrender sometime later on Wednesday. ABC News reported the former New York mayor was heading to Atlanta from his home in New York.
Nineteen people, including Trump, Powell, and Giuliani, were indicted on charges by a Fulton County grand jury last week.
“I’m feeling very, very good about it because I feel like I am defending the rights of all Americans, as I did so many times as a United States attorney,” Giuliani told reporters as he left his apartment in New York on Wednesday, according to ABC.
The bond amounts made public so far in the case are:
- Trump: $200,000
- Powell: $100,000
- John Eastman: $100,000
- Kenneth Chesebro: $100,000
- Jenna Ellis: $100,000
- David Shafer: $75,000
- Stephen Lee: $75,000
- Cathleen Latham: $75,000
- Ray Smith: $50,000,
- Robert Cheeley: $50,000
- Michael Roman: $50,000
- Scott Hall: $10,000
- Shawn Still: $10,000 (signature bond)
- Misty Hampton $10,000 (signature bond)
Defendants who don’t have reported bond agreements, according to the AJC, include Giuliani, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark, Harrison Floyd, and Trevian Kutti.
Meadows has asked a federal judge to dismiss charges against him or move them from Georgia state court to federal court. A hearing on the appeal will be held on Monday.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote in an email that she expects Meadows to surrender by 11 a.m. Friday CT.
“I gave 2 weeks for people to surrender themselves to the court. Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction,” Willis wrote to Meadows’ lawyers, the AJC reported. “The two weeks was a tremendous courtesy. At 12:30 p.m. on Friday [ET] I shall file warrants in the system.”
Trump has said he will surrender on Thursday, as reported by The Dallas Express.
8:30 a.m.
Special Counsel Jack Smith said an employee at former President Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly switched lawyers on Tuesday and retracted his earlier grand jury testimony.
The aide monitored security cameras at Mar-a-Lago, Politico reported.
Smith said “Trump Employee 4, as he’s descibed in court filings, changed from a Trump political action committee lawyer to a public defender in the classified documents case in Florida.
The employee has been identified as Yuscil Taveras, director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago, in newspaper reports.
