Rudolph W. Giuliani says that the FBI secretly spied on his Apple iCloud account beginning in late 2019 when he was having regular messaging conversations with his client, President Trump, during House impeachment proceedings.
Mr. Giuliani said the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan on Thursday informed his attorney, Robert Costello, that covert wiretapping took place.
The FBI raided Mr. Giuliani's New York apartment and law office on Wednesday morning, grabbing seven to nine electronic communication and storage devices.
In late 2019, Mr. Giuliani said he was defending the president against the "Phony impeachment" claim that Democrats lodged about Mr. Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Meanwhile, the Justice Department, while I'm defending him on that with others, invaded my iCloud," Mr. Giuliani said.
"The president doesn't have any more rights than anybody else, but he doesn't have any less. To me, they just trashed the president of the United States like he has no constitutional rights." Mr. Giuliani said he conducted many conversations with the president that presumably could be retrieved off of iCloud - a backup cyber storage system for emails, texts, documents, photos - just about anything contained on personal devices such as cellphones and computers.
"The government may come in and start listening to it or might try to see text of memoranda." Mr. Giuliani said that after he learned of the iCloud penetration, he notified two Trump attorneys.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/1/fbi-spied-giuliani-trump-icloud-chats-during-impea/
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