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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy after $148m Defamation Verdict

BBC: Rudy Giuliani, a longtime associate of former President Donald Trump, has filed for bankruptcy just days after he was ordered to pay $148m (£116m) in a defamation case.

He was ordered to pay the sum after a judge found he defamed two Georgia election workers over false claims they tampered with votes in 2020.

Mr Giuliani listed debts as high as $500m and assets of $10m in the filing.

A spokesman said the move should "be a surprise to no one". » | Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC News, Washington | Thursday, December 21, 2023

Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Giuliani’s Drinking, Long a Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors’ Attention

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s drinking was long whispered about by former City Hall aides, White House advisers and political socialites. Now it has become a factor in one of the federal cases against former President Donald J. Trump. | Erin Schaff for The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The former mayor’s drinking has become an investigative subplot in Donald Trump’s federal case over 2020 election interference. But long before that, friends had grown deeply concerned.

Rudolph W. Giuliani had always been hard to miss at the Grand Havana Room, a magnet for well-wishers and hangers-on at the Midtown cigar club that still treated him like the king of New York.

In recent years, many close to him feared, he was becoming even harder to miss.

For more than a decade, friends conceded grimly, Mr. Giuliani’s drinking had been a problem. And as he surged back to prominence during the presidency of Donald J. Trump, it was getting more difficult to hide it.

On some nights when Mr. Giuliani was overserved, an associate discreetly signaled the rest of the club, tipping back his empty hand in a drinking motion, out of the former mayor’s line of sight, in case others preferred to keep their distance. Some allies, watching Mr. Giuliani down Scotch before leaving for Fox News interviews, would slip away to find a television, clenching through his rickety defenses of Mr. Trump. Even at less rollicking venues — a book party, a Sept. 11 anniversary dinner, an intimate gathering at Mr. Giuliani’s own apartment — his consistent, conspicuous intoxication often startled his company.

“It’s no secret, nor do I do him any favors if I don’t mention that problem, because he has it,” said Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president who has known Mr. Giuliani for decades. “It’s actually one of the saddest things I can think about in politics.” » | Matt Flegenheimer and Maggie Haberman | Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani's Apartment as Part of Ukraine Probe | MSNBC

The New York Times' Michael Schmidt joins MSNBC with news that federal investigators executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment and seized his electronic devices.

Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment and Office »

Federal Agents Execute Search Warrant on Rudy Giuliani's Apartment

Federal agents executed a search warrant at the Manhattan apartment of Rudy Giuliani, advancing a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors that has been underway for months, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Trump Seeks Regime Change in Iran, as He Rips up Nuclear Deal and Imposes 'Strongest' Sanctions

Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said the US president is very "committed to regime change" in Iran, in a speech for the Iranian opposition cult the MEK. Then Trump sabotaged the JCPOA and Mike Pompeo announced "the strongest sanctions in history."