Arizona Prosecutors Say They’ve Spent WEEKS Trying to Track Down Giuliani to Serve Him with Indictment

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Rudy Giuliani, himself a former federal prosecutor, is apparently evading Arizona prosecutors who are trying to serve him with a notice of indictment related to his alleged participation in the fake elector scheme to attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Giuilani was among the campaign aides and attorneys supporting former President Donald Trump who were indicted in Arizona in April, along with eleven people who are accused with acting as “fake electors” in an unsuccessful attempt to divert the state’s electoral college votes from Joe Biden. Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, former campaign aide Mike Roman, and attorneys Jenna Ellis, John Eastman, and Christina Bobb were also named as defendants in the indictment.

All the other defendants have been served, either directly in person or via service to their attorneys — except for Giuliani, and “[i]t’s not for a lack of trying,” reported The Washington Post.

Richie Taylor, a spokesman for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) told the Post that the office had tried repeatedly to serve Giuliani with the summons, which is the formal legal notice of the criminal charges against him and demands he appear before a judge by May 21.

The AG’s office even monitored Giuiliani’s social media posts, according to Taylor, noting he had posted a video stream from his personal residence in New York City the day after the grand jury issued the indictment, and agents confirmed the location by matching the video with photographs of the residence from an old online real estate listing. Two agents traveled to New York City to attempt to hand-deliver the summons to Giuliani, but were thwarted:

A person at the building’s front desk told the agents that they were not allowed to receive service of documents. The person did not dispute that Giuliani lived there, Taylor said.

“We were not granted access,” Taylor said.

The attorney general’s office has also made multiple attempts to try to contact Giuliani by calling various phone numbers for him, “and none of them were successful,” Taylor said.

The former mayor “has hardly been in hiding,” noted the Post, posting videos of him taunting protesters at Columbia University from the passenger window of his SUV, livestreams from local restaurants and his Palm Beach, Florida condo, plus other social media posts indicating he had traveled to Mar-a-Lago to visit Trump, but the Arizona prosecutors aren’t expected to keep trying to stalk him in order to serve the summons.

If Giuliani continues to evade service and the May 21 appearance date passes without him, the next step is for prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant.

The Arizona indictment is far from Giuliani’s only legal headache.

He is a defendant in another criminal case in Georgia for the alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election there (and several of his co-defendants have already pled guilty), is an unindicted co-conspirator in Trump’s federal prosecution over the election, facing disbarment in New York and D.C., was ordered to pay a $148 million defamation verdict to two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of committing election fraud, is facing a second lawsuit from those same two plaintiffs for what they say are his continued defamatory attacks on them, filed bankruptcy in the wake of the $148 million verdict, owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes, and just had his WABC radio show cancelled — one of his last remaining income streams.