Rudolph W. Giuliani, a central figure within the investigation into efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election ends in Georgia, was amongst these charged on Monday night time within the case.

A former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, Mr. Giuliani served as Mr. Trump’s private lawyer in the course of the waning days of his presidency and led the authorized efforts in a number of states to problem Mr. Biden’s victories and preserve Mr. Trump in energy.

Prosecutors have scrutinized false allegations of election fraud that Mr. Giuliani made earlier than state legislative committees in December 2020, in addition to his function in a plan to ship a slate of electors who supported Mr. Trump to Congress — despite the fact that Georgia had already licensed electors who supported Joseph R. Biden Jr., who gained the state by about 10,000 votes.

State prosecutors in Atlanta knowledgeable Mr. Giuliani final 12 months that he was a goal of their investigation, however he sought to keep away from testifying to a particular grand jury investigating the matter. He was ordered to take action in August of final 12 months by a judge who told him to return to Atlanta “on a train, on a bus or Uber.”

Prosecutors have examined Mr. Giuliani’s testimony earlier than three legislative panels in December 2020, when he spent hours peddling false conspiracy theories about secret suitcases of Democratic ballots and corrupted voting machines.

“There are 10 ways to demonstrate that this election was stolen, that the votes were phony, that there were a lot of them — dead people, felons, phony ballots,” he stated to members of the State Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 3. None of these assertions turned out to be true, officers stated.

In Georgia, it’s unlawful to make false statements “in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of state government or of the government of any county, city, or other political subdivision.”

Mr. Giuliani additionally denigrated two Black election staff after his group performed footage of them counting votes, accusing them of fraud. “They look like they’re passing out dope, not just ballots,” he stated, although he by no means offered proof to substantiate his claims of wrongdoing.

While Mr. Giuliani instructed members of the State House, “You cannot possibly certify Georgia in good faith,” his personal falsehoods in Georgia later performed a significant function in his legislation license being suspended in New York State.

He additionally participated in a scheme to create a bogus slate of Trump presidential electors to satisfy in mid-December 2020, after President Biden had gained three completely different counts of the vote and the state’s Republican management had declared him the winner of Georgia’s electoral votes.

Mr. Trump’s high marketing campaign legal professionals refused to take part within the plan, and among the Trump electors designated earlier than Election Day bowed out.

Mr. Giuliani declined to supply substantive touch upon the courthouse steps final 12 months earlier than his testimony, saying: “We will not talk about this until it’s over.”