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WASHINGTON — The attorney representing former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has turned over thousands of pages of documents to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office as part of the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The lawyer, Tim Parlatore, said on Monday that he submitted the data to Smith’s office on Sunday.
“I have shared all of these documents, about 600 MB, mostly PDFs, with the special counsel and look forward to speaking with them in about two weeks,” Parlatore said in a statement. statement to CNN he later confirmed this to NBC News.
First the Daily Beast reported that Kerik had handed over the documents, after a privilege review by former President Donald Trump’s campaign.
Kerik, who had worked with former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in an effort to expose voter fraud following President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, tweeted Monday night he had been subpoenaed “several months ago” and that his attorney had recently obtained appropriate waivers from Trump to deliver the documents to the special counsel’s office.
“No one freaked out, no one sold out Trump or Giuliani,” Kerik wrote. “This is about giving the special counsel the evidence that the legal team has gathered under the supervision of @Rudy Giulianiand was reviewing voter/electoral fraud and improprieties in that election in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
A spokesman for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. NBC News has also contacted the Office of the Special Counsel for comment.
NBC News previously reported that Kerik is expected to meet with the special counsel’s office on a voluntary basis in mid-August to answer questions about efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 riot.
The federal grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel’s investigation is expected to decide soon whether to indict Trump in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Last week, the grand jury heard the testimony of William Russell, a former White House aide who spent much of the day with Trump on January 6, 2021, and now works for Trump’s presidential campaign.
Kerik was appointed as New York City Police Commissioner by Giuliani. He served in that role from August 2000 to December 2001 when Giuliani was mayor. Kerik rose to national fame following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but was later sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to felonies including tax fraud and lying to White House officials.
Kerik was released from federal prison in 2013 after serving three years. Trump granted Kerik a full pardon in 2020.
Zoë Richards contributed.
