Rudy Giuliani is trying to prevent the feds from seeing 3 files out of 2,000 seized in criminal probe

• Rudy Giuliani is claiming privilege on just 3 files out of 2,000 claimed during an April FBI raid.
• The former Trump attorney's dealings in Ukraine are being investigated by the federal government.

Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney to former President Donald Trump, is claiming privilege on only three files out of more than 2,000 seized as part of an FBI criminal probe into the lawyer's lobbying efforts in Ukraine, according to a court filing unveiled on Tuesday.

The former New York mayor, who served as Trump's personal lawyer during much of the former president's time in office, is seeking to stop federal investigators from seeing what's on the three items, citing attorney-client privilege.

Retired Judge Barbara Jones, who is adjudicating the requests, filed a special master's report on Tuesday as she turned over the majority of the files to federal prosecutors, but said she would wait to make a decision on whether the three items in question could be kept from them, according to ABC News.

The FBI raided Giuliani's Manhattan home and office in April, taking 16 electronic devices which held 2,226 electronic files, Jones' report said, according to CNBC. Jones has turned over the remaining 2,223 to the government.

Jones reportedly wrote that she also assigned additional items from the seizure to Giuliani's legal team to be reviewed and has given them until Friday to designate those files as privileged if they so choose.

"It's a tedious but very important process that we're all going through, and we are making every effort to adhere to Judge Jones' timeline," Arthur Aidala, Giuliani's attorney, told CNBC.

A representative for Giuliani did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The outlet said Jones' report claims all of the items reviewed so far were created on or after January 1, 2018.

Federal prosecutors are looking into Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine during the Trump presidency and whether he broke lobbying laws after he encouraged Ukrainian officials to investigate the Biden family as Trump prepared to campaign against President Joe Biden.

Giuliani has not been charged with a crime and has denied any wrongdoing.