Rudy conferring with Russian agent. More collusion.
What are the coming charges? Is this only about Marie Yovanovich, not that attacking an American official abroad is a small thing? If that's what this is it was a big mistake on Rudy's part. Trump could have removed Yovanovich on his own.
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drip... drip... drip...
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
By Maggie Haberman and Ben Protess
May 4, 2021
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 intensified since F.B.I. agents executed search warrants at Mr. Giuliani’s home and office last week, according to people familiar with the discussions, and comes as Mr. Giuliani has hired new lawyers and is facing his own protracted — and costly — legal battles.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have been examining communications between Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, and Ukrainian officials as he tried to unearth damaging information about President Biden before the election. The prosecutors are investigating whether Mr. Giuliani lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials who were helping him, a potential violation of federal law.
Mr. Giuliani, who has not been charged, has denied any wrongdoing and denounced the searches as “corrupt.” The actions in Ukraine were part of Mr. Trump’s first impeachment trial.
Separately, Mr. Giuliani is being sued for defamation by two voting machine companies, Dominion and Smartmatic, for his false claims that the companies were involved in a conspiracy to flip votes to Mr. Biden.
Mr. Giuliani led the effort to subvert the results of the 2020 race in a series of battleground states, but he was not paid for the work, according to people close to both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Trump. His supporters now want the Trump campaign to tap into the $250 million it raised in the weeks after the election to pay Mr. Giuliani and absorb costs he has incurred in the defamation suits.
“I want to know what the GOP did with the quarter of $1 billion that they collected for the election legal fight,” Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, wrote on Twitter on Sunday. Mr. Giuliani appointed Mr. Kerik when he was mayor of New York.
Using expletives, Mr. Kerik added that “lawyers and law firms that didn’t do” much work were paid handsomely, while those who worked hard “got nothing.”
Mr. Kerik has made similar complaints to some of Mr. Trump’s advisers privately, according to people familiar with the conversations, arguing that Mr. Giuliani has incurred legal expenses in his efforts to help Mr. Trump and that Mr. Giuliani’s name was used to raise money during the election fight.
In a separate tweet, Mr. Kerik blamed the Republican National Committee chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel. R.N.C. officials said that the group did not make the same overt fund-raising appeals as the Trump campaign to challenge the election results.
A lawyer for Mr. Giuliani, Robert J. Costello, has had conversations with a lawyer for Mr. Trump about whether any of the material that was seized by the F.B.I. should be protected from scrutiny because of attorney-client privilege. Mr. Costello has also raised the question of paying Mr. Giuliani, according to two people briefed on those discussions.
Jason Miller, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, declined to comment. Mr. Giuliani could not be reached for comment.
Mr. Giuliani had encouraged Mr. Trump to file challenges to the election, and the former president tasked Mr. Giuliani with leading the effort in November. But when Mr. Giuliani’s associate, Maria Ryan, sent an email to Trump campaign officials seeking $20,000 a day for his work, Mr. Trump balked, The New York Times has reported.
Mr. Trump later told his advisers he did not want Mr. Giuliani to receive any payment, according to people close to the former president with direct knowledge of the discussions. Before Mr. Trump left the White House in January, he agreed to reimburse Mr. Giuliani for more than $200,000 in expenses but not to pay a fee.
Some of Mr. Giuliani’s supporters have blamed Mr. Trump’s aides — and not the former president — for the standoff. However, people close to Mr. Trump said he has stridently refused to pay Mr. Giuliani.
ImageFederal investigators seized cellphones and computers from Mr. Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office on April 28.
Federal investigators seized cellphones and computers from Mr. Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office on April 28. Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
Mr. Giuliani’s advisers were also disappointed that he did not receive a federal pardon from Mr. Trump, despite facing the long-running federal investigation into his Ukrainian dealings, a person close to Mr. Giuliani said. After months of speculation that Mr. Trump might issue Mr. Giuliani a pre-emptive pardon, Mr. Giuliani said on his radio show in January that he did not need a pardon, because “I don’t commit crimes.”
The efforts to overturn the election culminated in a rally of Mr. Trump’s supporters near the White House on Jan. 6. After marching to the Capitol, where the Electoral College results were being certified, hundreds of those supporters stormed the building, resulting in deaths and scores of injuries to Capitol Police officers and others. The events led to Mr. Trump’s second impeachment trial, and Mr. Trump told Mr. Giuliani in a private meeting that he could not represent him in the proceedings, people briefed on the meeting said.
Asked about Mr. Kerik’s tweet during an interview with ABC News, Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, said that his father’s fees should be covered by Trump’s campaign coffers.
“I do think he should be indemnified,” the younger Mr. Giuliani said. “I think all those Americans that donated after Nov. 3, they were donating for the legal defense fund. My father ran the legal team at that point. So I think it’s very easy to make a very strong case for the fact that he and all the lawyers that worked on there should be indemnified.”
He added, “I would find it highly irregular if the president’s lead counsel did not get indemnified.”
A person close to Mr. Giuliani, who was granted anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, made a related argument, saying the Trump campaign should be careful to ensure money in the war chest was spent in connection with the election effort because it was solicited from the public for that purpose.
Although there are many differences between the two situations, for some of Mr. Trump’s advisers, the standoff with Mr. Giuliani has raised uncomfortable echoes of a similar dispute with another of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyers, Michael D. Cohen.
In 2019, Mr. Cohen said the Trump Organization, Mr. Trump’s family business, breached an agreement with him to cover his legal costs. In a lawsuit, Mr. Cohen said the company initially paid some of the bills after the F.B.I. searched his apartment and office in April 2018. But, he said in the lawsuit, company officials stopped the payments when they discovered around June 2018 that he was preparing to cooperate with federal investigators.
Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty later that year to charges related to tax evasion, as well as a campaign finance charge related to his 2016 hush-money payment to a pornographic film star who had claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen ended up testifying about Mr. Trump in Congress, and provided assistance to the investigation led by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into possible conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
After the F.B.I. searched Mr. Cohen’s home and office, he filed a civil action against the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, which Mr. Trump joined to prevent federal officials from gaining access to material that could be protected by attorney-client privilege between Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen.
Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers are considering filing a similar action in his case, according to one of the people close to the former mayor. One lawyer advising Mr. Giuliani, Alan Dershowitz, told CNN that it would be appropriate for Mr. Trump to join such an effort. Mr. Dershowitz confirmed the comment to The Times.
A new court filing made public on Tuesday showed the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan asked a federal judge last week to appoint a special master to conduct a review of potentially privileged materials seized from Mr. Giuliani.
The prosecutors, writing to Judge J. Paul Oetken, said the F.B.I. had begun to extract materials from cellphones and computers seized from Mr. Giuliani, but that a review of those materials had not yet begun, the redacted court filing showed.
Mr. Giuliani recently added four new lawyers to his team: Arthur L. Aidala, a former Brooklyn prosecutor and former Fox News commentator; Barry Kamins, a retired New York Supreme Court justice and law professor; the retired New York Appellate Division Justice John Leventhal; and Michael T. Jaccarino, a former Brooklyn prosecutor.
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The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
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New York Court Suspends Rudy Giuliani's Law License
An appeals court has suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race.
On an interesting aside, when Roy Cohn needed a character witness to try and keep his law license, the best guy he could think of was this other low life --
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Rudy Giuliani ‘demanded oral sex while on phone to Trump’
The 70-page complaint said: "He often demanded oral sex while he took phone calls on speaker phone from high-profile friends and clients, including then-President Trump.
"Giuliani told Ms Dunphy that he enjoyed engaging in this conduct while on the telephone because it made him 'feel like Bill Clinton'."
The complaint said: "He made clear that satisfying his sexual demands - which came virtually anytime, anywhere - was an absolute requirement of her employment."
It was claimed Mr Giuliani "often demanded that she work naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her."
The complaint added: "He drank morning, noon, and night, and was frequently intoxicated, and therefore his behaviour was always unpredictable."
It's not hard to believe this of a Trump lover and all he stands for. Also typical of the type is Bannon's reaction, blame it all on the foreigner, Rupert Murdoch.
Does Rudy have $10 million? Maybe Trump will dip into his legal fund for his ol' friend. LMAO.
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Read the 70 page lawsuit here:
Damn, Rudy.
8. Giuliani also abused his position as Ms. Dunphy’s lawyer to pressure her into sex.
In one instance, for example, Giuliani promised Ms. Dunphy that he would give her $300,000 if
she would forgo her legal rights in connection with her pending case and “**** me like crazy.”
This statement was recorded.1
By the way, I don't think she's that traumatized. I just think she's pissed. She degraded herself for 2 years and he never gave her the money he promised. She knows he doesn't have any money to give her. She doesn't care. She's out for blood.
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175. In May 2019, Ms. Dunphy continued working in her role as Director of Business
Development and as Giuliani’s executive assistant, monitoring his email and social media. During
that time, Giuliani discussed with Ms. Dunphy his work to try to have Ambassador Yovanovitch
removed from her position at the request of a foreign oligarch.
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Election workers Moss and Freeman are the heroes of the day for standing up to and taking down the man! Rudy Giuliani guilty of defamation and will be forced to pay all their legal bills plus a boatload of punitive damages.
Then there is the sexual abuse case brought on by his former assistant, aka "My Tits".
Then there is the Georgia RICO trial, where another black woman is going to giving him a well deserved spanking.
Things are not looking good for him but maybe he find a way out of it - "Judge, I have had a serious drinking problem for years. It's a disease. I can't be held responsible to my actions while under the influence of alcohol."
He deserves every bit of retribution coming his way. He can dry out in prison.
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Rudy getting spanked a lot lately. We should not rule out the possibility he gets off on it.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Rudy is going to be homeless soon. Maybe Trump will let him crash on the couch with Karen Lake at Maralago.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
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