Tag Archives: Rudy Giuliani

Salon reports: Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani reportedly called up an Arizona state official to get the 2020 general election “fixed up” in Trump’s favor, according to an Arizona Republic report on Sunday. Giuliani dialed Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, a lifelong Republican who has expressed staunch opposition to the recent trajectory of his party, on Christmas Eve and left …

Law & Crime reports: Federal prosecutors argued in a legal brief that Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing should not be “above the law” because of their connections as attorneys, warning that the lawyers’ quest for information about their search warrants could compromise an active grand jury investigation against them and “others.” “Giuliani and Toensing’s additional requests proceed from a central …

“When you’ve got the greatest prosecutor in the history of the Southern District. When you’ve got the greatest mayor – not just in the history of New York – but in the history of America, you’re foolish if you don’t use him as an asset.” – Andrew Giuliani, saying that his father will work on his campaign for governor. The …

Politico reports: It’s not just Ukraine. Justice Department investigators have asked questions about Rudy Giuliani’s work connected to Romania, according to two people familiar with the probe into former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Last month, FBI agents raided Giuliani’s New York City apartment and office to seize phones and computers as part of an investigation of whether Giuliani violated …

The Daily Beast reports: In the weeks since the feds raided Rudy Giuliani’s apartment and office in late April, close allies have tried to ferry a slew of emergency requests to former President Donald Trump and his advisers. Trump, as well as several of his legal advisers and longtime confidants, have been hesitant about swooping in to help the embattled …

Forbes reports: Rudy Guiliani has hired two attorneys who defended disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein to represent him in court, according to new court filings, after federal investigators raided his apartment in April as part of an ongoing probe into the longtime Trump attorney’s ties to Ukraine. Attorneys Arthur Aidala and Barry Kamins said they were appearing on behalf of …

Mediaite reports: Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said Friday that there is zero chance that Rudy Giuliani does not get stiffed by Donald Trump on his legal bills. “He’s going to get stiffed. All right?” Cohen said, highly skeptically talking about the idea Trump would be willing “to part with a single dollar.” Cohen said with a laugh, “He thought …

Politico reports: Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for ex-president Donald Trump, has reduced the size of his personal entourage, according to three people familiar with the matter. Giuliani laid off several staffers and independent contractors in the last few weeks, according to one of the people, who said the ousted employees had been told that the former New York …

The Washington Post reports: Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to appoint an outside lawyer to review the records seized from Rudolph W. Giuliani — echoing the Justice Department’s pursuit of a criminal case against a previous attorney for former president Donald Trump, Michael Cohen. In a letter unsealed Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan asked U.S. District Judge J. Paul …

The New York Times reports: As a federal investigation into Rudolph W. Giuliani escalates, his advisers have been pressing aides to former President Donald J. Trump to reach into a $250 million war chest to pay Mr. Giuliani for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Mr. Trump’s behalf. The pressure from Mr. Giuliani’s camp has …

“I’m probably the biggest anti-communist you’ve ever met. There is no way that I’m a Russian agent or anybody else’s agent. I was a lawyer who was representing a client who was innocent. The biggest burden a lawyer can have is to represent an innocent man and I did it damn well, and I have exposed that our president is …

The Hill reports: The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News walked back their reporting about FBI’s communication with President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani regarding Russia. The Washington Post was the first to report on Thursday that Giuliani was warned that he was the target of a Russian influence campaign last year. The newspaper, citing people familiar …

The Washington Post reports: The FBI warned Rudolph W. Giuliani in late 2019 that he was the target of a Russian influence operation aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage President Biden politically ahead of last year’s election, according to people familiar with the matter. The warning was part of an extensive effort by the bureau to alert members of …

Politico reports: Andrii Artemenko made a star turn in Rudy Giuliani’s controversial Ukraine documentary and once tried to pitch the Trump administration on a plan for peace between Moscow and Kyiv. Now, he says, he’s told the FBI what he knows about the former mayor. Artemenko, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian, told POLITICO that he has shared what he knows about …

Via press release from Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer: The Biden department of justice has completely ignored clear evidence (which the FBI has had for over a year) in texts and emails on Hunter Biden’s hard drive of failing to register numerous times as a foreign agent, child pornography, money laundering, and 30 years of the Biden Crime family taking millions and …

“If you’re a Republican, if you’re a conservative, if you’re a Trump supporter it’s even worse, I mean, they’ll put you in jail for years for spitting on the sidewalk or jaywalking. You know, we have, look at Roger Stone’s case, in particular. “You’ve got 20 guys, tactical gear, frogmen, pre-dawn raid, guns blazing, and CNN cameras tipped off, they’re …

Mediaite reports: Four Seasons Total Landscaping is making the most of the news about Rudy Giuliani, trolling him over latest developments. Giuliani held a press conference in front of the landscaping company’s garage doors back in November. Between Giuliani’s wild comments, the weirdness of the location, and the fact that the company is next to a crematorium and an adult …

“It has to stop. If this can happen to the former president’s lawyer, this can happen to any American. Enough is enough. “The only piece of evidence that they did not take up there today was the only piece of incriminating evidence that is in there, and it does not belong to my father, it belongs to the current president’s …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert J. Costello, called the searches unnecessary because his client had offered to answer prosecutors’ questions, except those regarding Mr. Giuliani’s privileged communications with the former president. “What they did today was legal thuggery,” Mr. Costello said. “Why would you do this to anyone, let alone someone who was the associate attorney …

The New York Times reports: Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant on Wednesday at the Upper East Side apartment of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine. One of the people said the investigators had seized Mr. …