WASHINGTON - Donald Trump ally Bernard Kerik, a friend of alleged co-conspirator Rudy Giuliani, met Monday with prosecutors in charge of the case that accuses Trump of seeking to overthrow his 2020 election loss, Kerik’s lawyer said.
The interview dealt largely with Giuliani's actions in what he called an effort to fight voter fraud – and what special counsel Jack Smith called an illegal conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from President Joe Biden.
“Bernard Kerik sat with Special Counsel’s Office and told them the truth," his attorney Timothy Parlatore said in a statement.
"Whether people agree with it or not, and even if some of the claims have since been debunked, the unavoidable reality is that the Giuliani team was making a good faith effort to investigate claims of fraud at the time," Parlatore said.
He added: "It is unfortunate that Jack Smith didn’t wait until finishing his investigation before bringing an indictment based on a false theory and making his own false public statements."
Giuliani, one of the unnamed co-conspirators in the Trump indictment, has also denied wrongdoing.
But Kerik's interview by the special counsel team, which his lawyer said lasted nearly five hours, suggests that prosecutors are now homing in on Giuliani in their ongoing investigation into the alleged conspiracy to overturn the former president’s loss in the 2020 election.
Kerik and Giuliani have a long and, at times, close history of personal ties...
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