Tag Archives: Rudy Giuliani

The New York Times reports: Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George …

“I am not a drunk. I don’t think I’ve ever [been] publicly drunk in my life. The last time I was – was probably in college. I like to drink Scotch and have cigars. That’s where it probably comes from. “I drink moderate amounts of Scotch. I mostly drink Scotch because I like to have it with cigars. I didn’t …

The New York Post reports: Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a 9/11 commemoration on Saturday called a top US general an “idiot” and “a–hole,” imitated Queen Elizabeth and distanced himself from Prince Andrew, in a series of rambling soliloquies, video shows. During a rant at an annual Sept. 11 dinner held at Cipriani, Giuliani wondered of Gen. Mark Milley, “How’s that …

CNN reports: Igor Fruman, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, pleaded guilty Friday in New York federal court to a charge stemming from a case alleging he funneled foreign money to US campaign coffers. Fruman, 56, pleaded guilty to solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national. He faces up to five years in prison. Fruman had faced multiple charges. He …

The Insider reports: Christianné Allen resigned from her position as the communications director for Rudy Giuliani, whose mounting legal troubles include a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems and a federal investigation into whether he violated foreign lobbying laws through his work in Ukraine. Allen, who has worked for Giuliani since September 2019, told The Daily Beast that she would …

NBC New York reports: Almost 20 years after being dubbed America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani says he knows that people think he’s gone off the rails. “I don’t care,” he told NBC New York during a recent interview at the World Trade Center Memorial in which he discussed everything from the prospect of going to jail to allegations he is an …

Deadline reports: Rudy Giuliani’s attorney rehashed conspiracy theories and was light on evidence when pressed by a judge Tuesday in a defamation suit brought by voting software firm Smartmatic. Joe Sibley of Camara & Sibley asked New York State Supreme Court Judge David Cohen to dismiss six of the claims against his client Giuliani because they constituted “product disparagement,” or …

Forbes reports: Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuits against the attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell can move forward, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, dismissing the Trump allies’ motions to have the billion-dollar litigation thrown out over procedural issues and claims that they didn’t defame Dominion with their discredited allegations that the company was …

The New York Post reports: You may not be able to retain Rudy Giuliani as your attorney in New York anymore — but you can now hire him to make a personalized video for $199. The former New York City mayor, who’s been stripped of his law license and is facing a massive defamation lawsuit over his “Big Lie” following …

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani has admitted to Department of Justice investigators that he was bullshitting when, in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, he said in a radio interview that he’d heard “rumors” about the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails from “active” FBI agents. The president’s personal lawyer admitted in a voluntary interview with the DOJ’s …

“I committed no crime, and if you think I committed a crime, you’re probably really stupid, because you don’t know who I am. “Is the guy who put the mafia in jail, terrorists in jail, Ed Koch’s commissioners in jail, and the worst people on Wall Street — I’m not going to file (a form)? I mean, that’s just crazy. …

The Washington Post this morning posted a lengthy excerpt from Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s coming book, I Alone Can Fix It. This bit from election night is getting attention: After a while, Rudy Giuliani started to cause a commotion. He was telling other guests that he had come up with a strategy for Trump and was trying to get …

CNBC reports: The District of Columbia’s highest court on Wednesday suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in Washington, pending a disciplinary proceeding in New York. The suspension by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals was triggered automatically by Giuliani’s suspension last month from practicing law in the state of New York. Giuliani’s false statements about voting in Arizona, Georgia …

The Insider reports: Donald Trump’s family has cut off Rudy Giuliani, and the former president has been irked that the lawyer asked to be paid for his work challenging Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, a new book says. On Sunday, The Times of London published an excerpt from “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” the coming book …

Bloomberg News reports: Rudy Giuliani, already being sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. over his debunked election-conspiracy claims, has been issued a subpoena in a similar lawsuit the company filed against Fox News Network. The former New York mayor and Donald Trump’s personal lawyer was asked to hand over all documents stemming from his appearances on Fox starting …

From the New York Daily News editorial board: Words have consequences, especially for attorneys — like one Rudy Giuliani, who before Thursday had been licensed to practice law in New York since this very day in 1969. With that privilege came the responsibility to abide by the rules of professional conduct, which above all else requires truthfulness, especially in formal …

“As you may have heard, a few minutes ago my father’s law license was just suspended by the New York state First Appellate Division. All five of them are Democrats, three of which were appointed by Andrew Cuomo. “Five to nothing, ultimately. Democrats with zero Republicans on there. This is just unbelievable to see just how politicized all of this …

The New York Times reports: A New York appellate court suspended Rudolph W. Giuliani’s law license on Thursday after a disciplinary panel found that he made “demonstrably false and misleading” statements about the 2020 election as Donald J. Trump’s personal attorney. The court wrote in a 33-page decision that Mr. Giuliani’s conduct threatened “the public interest and warrants interim suspension …

CNN reports: Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden. The audio is of a July 2019 phone call between Giuliani, US diplomat Kurt Volker, and Andriy Yermak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr …

Newsweek reports: “I’m been sleeping on MyPillows for some time. I love them. They’re simply the very best pillows ever made,” Giuliani said in the most recent episode of his YouTube show, Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense. The 53-minute episode asked whether UFOs are real, in reference to a forthcoming Pentagon report on UFOs. Giuliani continued the ad by stating that …