Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Monday complained that was treated like the “head of a drug cartel or a terrorist” when federal investigators executed a search warrant at his home and law office last month.
According to The Associated Press, Giuliani’s attorneys said that the raids on the former New York Mayr were unnecessary because he said after prosecutors obtained a warrant for his Apple iCloud account in 2019 that he would cooperate and answer questions without limitations, except for privileged matters, as long as his attorneys were aware of the subjects that would be discussed.
Giuliani’s attorneys said prosecutors instead “simply chose to treat a distinguished lawyer as if he was the head of a drug cartel or a terrorist, in order to create maximum prejudicial coverage of both Giuliani, and his most well known client – the former President of the United States,” according to the AP
Federal agents raided Giuliani’s home and law office last month as part of the long-running investigation looking into whether the former Trump lawyer illegally lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian oligarchs.
His lawyers’ comments were made in a letter to a Manhattan federal judge who is tasked with weighing whether or not to appoint a special master to protect attorney-client privilege when investigators review the evidence gathered in the raids on Giuliani’s properties, the AP noted.
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Giuliani’s lawyers also argued that investigators improperly encroached on his private communications with Trump when they seized his iCloud data files and said the files likely included “material relating to the impending impeachment, the welfare of the country, and to national security,” according to the AP.
The news service also reported that Giuliani’s team asked the judge to unseal the affidavits that bolstered the Nov. 2019 search warrant, arguing that seeing the documents would help them make their argument that “that this unilateral, secret review was illegal.”
On Monday, Giuliani asked a federal judge to block prosecutors from reviewing any of the documents seized in his home or office in last month’s raid, arguing that the seizure was not justified.
