Judge: Giuliani Owes $300,000 To Accounting Firm

CNN reports:

Former New York City Mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been told he must pay a bill of about $300,000 for a forensic accounting firm’s work to trace his money in his now-aborted bankruptcy proceeding.

The dispute over how much Giuliani owes to the accounting firm Global Data Risk was the last vestige of his efforts earlier this year to hold off creditors, to whom he is nearly $150 million in debt.

Giuliani had argued to the judge, Sean Lane of the US Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, New York, that the fees of the accounting firm such as billing for meetings, travel and interview time as they researched his assets for the creditors should be reduced.

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The firm hired to investigate Rudolph Giuliani’s finances in bankruptcy must reduce its Chapter 11 bill owed by the former New York City mayor, but by only a fraction of what Giuliani had requested, a judge said. https://t.co/1W7Ok9bVwi

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