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On April 28, local time, U.S. federal prosecutors searched the residence and office of former New York Mayor and Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and seized Giuliani's electronic devices to advance the investigation into Giuliani's private and illegal contacts with Ukraine.
Giuliani's son, Andrew Giuliani, said on the same day that the raid by federal prosecutors was "disgusting."
Under U.S. law, prosecutors can obtain a search warrant only if they can convince a judge that a search has the potential to produce evidence of a crime. During the Trump administration, Justice Department officials repeatedly tried to prevent the U.S. Attorney's Office from applying for a search warrant for Giuliani's cell phone.
Giuliani is Trump's personal lawyer and has been an "old rival" to Biden for decades. On the eve of the October 2020 U.S. presidential election, a U.S. media outlet published "strong materials" calling the arrest of "conclusive evidence" of the entanglement of interests between Biden and his son Hunter Biden and Ukraine, mainly an email from a computer hard drive suspected of being Hunt, which was provided by Giuliani.