Former U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudolph Giuliani will appear before a special grand jury in Georgia on Wednesday as part of a criminal investigation into interference in the 2020 presidential election.. It is reported by the New York Times.

Giuliani, suspected of helping to keep Donald Trump in power, has been the subject of an investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fulton Willis, Georgia..

Prosecutors have already questioned witnesses before a special grand jury about Giuliani's December 2020 state legislature speeches as he peddled conspiracy theories about "

As you know, the elections in the state of Georgia are one of two criminal cases related to Trump and his entourage.. A special jury was convened to investigate him..

The second case concerns the examination of his financial arrangements by the District Attorney of Mangetten..

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Willis' investigation into Trump's activities in the two months between his electoral defeat and congressional approval, including a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanding "

It was one of the steps taken by Trump and his allies to overturn the election results in Georgia.. At the same time, the environment of the ex-president disseminated information about the alleged falsification of voting results by the Democrats..

Giuliani's lawyers said he did nothing wrong in Georgia and that he was willing to cooperate with the investigation, but tried to avoid having to testify before a grand jury.. In particular, the defenders said that the doctor advised Giuliani not to travel by plane due to the stenting procedure he underwent in early July, so they tried to postpone his testimony, or conduct it via videoconference..

Judge Robert McBurney of the Fulton County Superior Court, however, objected, saying that Giuliani could come to Atlanta "

Asked by a reporter about what kind of vehicle his client would use when heading to Atlanta from New York, lawyer Giuliani Costello replied: "

For Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, these are not the first problems with the law.. In particular, he was also a defendant in a criminal investigation into his ties with Ukraine during the 2020 presidential campaign..

In April 2019, the US State Department abruptly recalled US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch from Kyiv.. Later, in testimony during the impeachment trial and other congressional hearings, it appeared that Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, played a key role behind the scenes in lobbying for Yovanovitch's dismissal..

She has been the target of harsh criticism from Trump allies, including Giuliani, who complained that she interfered with efforts to reopen an investigation into Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that has been under scrutiny by Ukrainian prosecutors..

Trump allies have also criticized Yovanovitch for refusing to grant a US visa to former Ukraine Attorney General Viktor Shokin.. Even as vice president, Biden and European officials called Shokin corrupt and ineffective.. Shokin was fired in 2016.

On April 28, 2021, federal investigators in Mangeten searched the home and office of Rudolf Giuliani. A search of a lawyer, and even more so a former lawyer for the president, is an unprecedented measure in the United States, indicating the seriousness of the investigation..

One of the episodes of the investigation concerns the cooperation of Giuliani with representatives of the Ukrainian politicians in 2019. According to investigators, they helped Juliana look for compromising evidence on the son of Trump's rival, current US President Joe Biden, and he lobbied their interests in the Trump Administration.