Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been indicted in the state’s fake elector case. Giuliani, along with 17 other defendants, is accused of attempting to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Giuliani faces charges of conspiracy, fraud, and forgery, the same as the other defendants. The indictment alleges that Giuliani pressured Arizona legislators and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to change the election outcome and encouraged Republican electors in Arizona and six other contested states to vote for Trump.
Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, is also among those indicted. Neither Meadows nor Giuliani were named in the redacted grand jury indictment released earlier, but they were readily identifiable based on descriptions in the document.
Arizona becomes the fourth state where allies of the former president have been charged with using false or unproven claims about voter fraud related to the election. Giuliani was also indicted last year by a grand jury in Georgia, where he is accused of spearheading Trump’s efforts to compel state lawmakers in Georgia to ignore the will of voters and illegally appoint pro-Trump electoral college electors.
Among the defendants are 11 Arizona Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Trump won in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election. The other defendants include Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations, and four attorneys accused of organizing an attempt to use fake documents to persuade Congress not to certify Biden’s victory.
Arraignments are scheduled May 21 for 12 other people charged in the case, including nine of the 11 Republicans who had submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Trump had won Arizona. The Arizona indictment said Eastman encouraged the GOP electors to cast their votes in December 2020, unsuccessfully pressured state lawmakers to change the election’s outcome in Arizona and told then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could reject Democratic electors in the counting of electoral votes in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
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