President Donald’s Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani told ABC News on Tuesday he is not complying witha congressional subpoena.
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Giuliani told ABC News “if they enforce it, then we will see what happens.”
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters, FILEGiuliani went on to say he is no longer retaining the services of Jon Sale, who was acting as his attorney for this matter. Giuliani said that if Congress seeks to enforce a subpoena, then he will retain counsel.
As part of his final acts as his attorney, Sale sent a letter to Congress on Tuesday replying to the subpoena Giuliani was sent.
Tuesday was the deadline for Giuliani to comply with a wide-ranging subpoena for documents from three of the House committees working on the growing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
In their subpoena sent to Giuliani late last month, Reps. Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings said that Giuliani had “admitted on national television that, while serving as the president’s personal attorney, he asked the government of Ukraine to target former Vice President Joe Biden.”
“A growing public record indicates that the President, his agent Rudy Giuliani, and others appear to have pressed the Ukrainian government to pursue two politically-motivated investigations,” the Democratic chairmen wrote. “The Committees have reason to believe that you have information and documents relevant to these matters.”
Aram Roston / ReutersGiulianihad previously told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulosthat he would “consider” cooperating with the congressional request but only if his client, President Trump, signed off.
“I’m a lawyer. It’s his privilege, not mine,” Giuliani told ABC News last month. “If he decides that he wants me to testify, of course I’ll testify, even though I think Adam Schiff is an illegitimate chairman. He has already prejudged the case.”
Giuliani has emerged as a central figure in the inquiry. Citing recent testimony by witnesses, Democrats accuse Giuliani of running a shadow foreign policy operation to benefit the Trump campaign. Two Ukrainian-American businessmen who reportedly helped Giuliani to investigate Trump’s political rival, Joe Biden, and Biden’s son, Hunter, were indicted last week on campaign finance charges.
Guiliani’sbusiness relationships remain the subject of an ongoing criminal investigationbeing conducted by federal authorities in New York .
ABC News’ Anne Flaherty contributed to this report.
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