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Drew Findling is an attorney who has represented rap artists like Gucci Mane, Migos and Cardi B, and even has his own hashtag: #BillionDollarLawyer. He also has tweeted critically of Donald Trump, calling him in 2018 “the racist architect of fraudulent Trump University.”
None of that stopped the former president from hiring Findling to represent him in Georgia, The New York Times reports. A prosecutor in the state is investigating efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election there, and Findling will presumably be providing Trump with advice concerning that.
The investigation into postelection meddling is being led by Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, which encompasses much of Atlanta. To date, at least 17 people have been designated as targets who could face criminal charges. Mr. Trump is not among them, but evidence and testimony are still being taken in by a special grand jury, and Ms. Willis has said she is weighing a number of potential criminal charges, including racketeering and conspiracy.
In a hearing on Tuesday, a state judge told lawyers for Mr. Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, that their client needed to travel to Atlanta to testify next week. And in a hearing in federal court here Wednesday, lawyers for Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina faced a skeptical reception from a judge on their efforts to quash a subpoena from Ms. Willis’s office seeking the senator’s testimony.