Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills

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ByKatelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNNWire
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 8:57AM

NEW YORK -- Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges - related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election.

In court on Monday, the former New York City mayor said the legal quagmires have left him effectively out of cash. He even appears to have responded to some of the money crunch by listing for sale a 3-bedroom Manhattan apartment he owns for $6.5 million.

Not including standard legal fees, Giuliani faces nearly $90,000 in sanctions from a judge in a defamation case, a $20,000 monthly fee to a company to host his electronic records, $15,000 or more for a search of his records, and even a $57,000 judgment against his company for unpaid phone bills ...

Giuliani's financial situation is likely to become even more difficult to navigate in the coming days. He faces potentially perilous court decisions against him in two 2020 election defamation lawsuits as early as this week ...

https://abc7ny.com/rudy-giuliani-trump-indictment-legal-bills-georgia/13656956/

[Tetrachloride]

1. If you can't afford an attorney, the court will appoint one

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4. Giuliani made desperate appeal to Trump to pay his legal bills

By Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, CNN
Updated 12:49 AM EDT, Thu August 17, 2023

CNN
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With his attorney in tow, Rudy Giuliani traveled to Mar-a-Lago in recent months on a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, Giuliani and his lawyer Robert Costello believed they could explain face-to-face why Trump needed to assist his former attorney with his ballooning legal bills.

Giuliani and Costello traveled to Florida in late April where they had two meetings with Trump to discuss Giuliani’s seven-figure legal fees, making several pitches about how paying Giuliani’s bills was ultimately in Trump’s best interest.

But the former president, who is notoriously strict about dipping into his own coffers, didn’t seem very interested. After Costello made his pitch, Trump verbally agreed to help with some of Giuliani’s legal bills without committing to any specific amount or timeline ...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/politics/giuliani-trump-legal-bills/index.html

[DET]

2. Well, That's A Shame

‘a $20,000 monthly fee to a company to host his electronic records’. What’s that about? Sadly, this is all self induced. I truly thought Rudy was a hero after the WTC crisis, but I had no idea how corrupt and venal he was. Such a sad end to someone who could have been great if he had not given into his worst impulses, and if he had not met DJT.

[niyad]

14. Sorry, he was scum long before his association with TRAITOR**. Just ask

his second wife. I despised the scumbag before 9/11, and for every corrupt thing he did during and after.

[PJMcK]

18. Giuliani was a bad mayor

Just one example: Following the 9/11 attacks, Giuliani’s term in office was coming to an end as he was term-limited. But because he saw himself as a hero he tried to get the law changed so he could have a third (illegal) term. Thankfully, NYC would have none of it and he was gone in January 2002.

Giuliani fancied himself as the only person who could do the job. Mike Bloomberg proved him wrong.

[roamer65]

3. Fuck him.

I hope he ends up destitute and homeless.

[Sky Jewels]

10. Not me. I want him to have permanent housing

in a shithole cell of a prison.

[PJMcK]

19. Me, too

I want to see Giuliani broke and in prison. It’s the least he deserves.

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5. DJT stiffed his alleged co-conspirators, whose false claims brought in $250 million

PUBLISHED TUE, AUG 15 20235:10 PM EDT
UPDATED WED, AUG 16 20235:33 PM EDT
Brian Schwartz

Several of the attorneys who spearheaded President Donald Trump’s frenzied effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election tried, and failed, to collect payment for the work they did for Trump’s political operation, according to testimony to congressional investigators and Federal Election Commission records. This is despite the fact that their lawsuits and false claims of election interference helped the Trump campaign and allied committees raise $250 million in the weeks following the November vote, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said in its final report.

Among them was Trump’s closest ally, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Trump and Giuliani had a handshake agreement that Giuliani and his team would get paid by the Trump political operation for their post-election work, according to Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for longtime Giuliani ally Bernard Kerik.

But the Trump campaign and its affiliated committees ultimately did not honor that pledge, according to campaign finance records. The records show that Giuliani’s companies were only reimbursed for travel and not the $20,000 a day he requested to be paid ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/15/trump-alleged-co-conspirators-never-got-paid-by-trump-team.html

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. It takes a special kind of stupid to think traitortrump would pay up.

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12. ... a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ...

Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie
Lie-la-lie
Lie-la-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie, lie-lie-lie-lie-lie

[No Vested Interest]

6. Did Rudy have some nasty divorces as well? I understand those can be very costly...

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8. Blast from the Recent Past: That's the same apartment that got raided in 2021!

Here's video from the Daily Mail (ugh) YouTube channel, featuring socialite and building resident Michele Herbert:

[Sky Jewels]

9. Maybe he stashed some money in his pants.

That’s probably what he was groping around for in the Borat film.

[DFW]

13. You gotta wonder--does Giuliani think Trump will change his habits for his benefit alone?

Especially when Rudy couldn't "find" any extra votes in Georgia or Arizona!

I think Rudy has about as much chance of getting his bills to Trump paid as a blue whale has of hitch-hiking from Baltimore to San Francisco. When you lie down with dogs, those aren't lady bugs you wake up with.

[GoodRaisin]

15. I bet Ruby Freeman doesn't give a shit.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. A little extra Schadenfreude:

Rudy's also paying a good amount of alimony to his third wife, Judith Nathan.

(BTW, last year)
Rudy Giuliani sued by ex-wife Judith: Pay me $260K or go to prison
https://pagesix.com/2022/08/02/rudy-giuliani-sued-by-ex-wife-judith-pay-me-260k-or-go-to-prison/

[Dorian Gray]

17. He's a pathetic old alcoholic

who made a ton of decisions to skate close with power. Oh well.