Federal Investigators Execute Search Warrant at Rudy Giuliani's Apartment
Source: NYT
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. Trumps personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giulianis dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
One of the people said the investigators had seized Mr. Giulianis electronic devices.
Executing a search warrant is an extraordinary move for prosecutors to take against a lawyer, let alone a lawyer for a former president, and it marks a major turning point in the long-running investigation into Mr. Giuliani.
The federal authorities have been largely focused on whether Mr. Giuliani illegally lobbied the Trump administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, who at the same time were helping Mr. Giuliani search for dirt on Mr. Trumps political rivals, including President Biden, who was then a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/rudy-giuliani-trump-ukraine-warrant.html
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BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)PunkinPi
(4,870 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)the "Four Seasons" (Total Landscaping) here in Philly under a pile of mulch!
C Moon
(12,188 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)you changed your moon again.
Maybe he'll run back to Gettysburg and lay down on a battlefield or something.
PunkinPi
(4,870 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)He's on the run!
PunkinPi
(4,870 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)on the east coast!
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)they'd never find him, he'd blend in so perfectly.
BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)jimfields33
(15,473 posts)Seriously, if he still has his electronics from that timeframe then he is dumb and deserves whatever comes. Hes rich. A new computer and phone is loose change to him.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)I would imagine hed had covered his tracks by now.
PJMcK
(21,921 posts)Giuliani is notoriously sloppy with his electronic devices. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that he doesn't even know how to try to cover his digital tracks.
Like Trump, Giuliani is an idiot.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)PatSeg
(46,804 posts)He was a U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York. He must have known this was coming.
Mysterian
(4,524 posts)it's that lawyers and doctors can be really stupid people despite their academic degrees.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)back in the day, said he was a good prosecutor. Maybe he's losing his marbles with age. Now he's just the "crazy uncle" everyone tries to avoid. Maybe early signs of dementia?
BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)multiple rancorous divorces, the latest settled less than 2 years ago right before trial, plus the past 4 years running around the world to manufacture bullshit, finished him off.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)A far cry from the days when he was called "America's Mayor". It has all been downhill ever since. Of course, like with Donald Trump, New Yorkers knew what an ass he was even back then. I never saw what some people thought was so impressive. I saw an opportunist who shamelessly used 9/11 every chance he got for his own benefit. Like Biden said in 2007, "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11."
BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)many of us remember when he was running for mayor against David Dinkins in 1992 (for a 2nd time, with Dinkins running for another term), including this beauty (almost a decade before 9/11) -
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)I was living in Chicago at the time, so I really didn't know much about the man.
BumRushDaShow
(127,319 posts)PatSeg
(46,804 posts)cstanleytech
(26,082 posts)not be the first high level government official that thought that.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)who clearly should have known better. The justice department is full of "boy scouts" who are dogged in their pursuit of criminals. Plus, I don't think Giuliani was ever a very likeable guy in the first place. I'm sure he made his share of enemies over the years.
smb
(3,453 posts)C Moon
(12,188 posts)ace3csusm
(969 posts)everyone that he has the dirt on them and will release it unless he gets what he wants...It will bring alot of people down with them...
WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)on his phone that authorized his activities by and on behalf of the former guy.
tinrobot
(10,848 posts)I'm not so sure he's smart enough to hide his digital tracks.
jimfields33
(15,473 posts)Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)I am so deliriously happy!!!!
SO happy!!!
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)PunkinPi
(4,870 posts)BTW, I love your new DU handle.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)PunkinPi
(4,870 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dchill
(38,324 posts)Jon King
(1,910 posts)It might not be on the search warrant, but you know those agents will come across some odd stuff in Rudy's cave.
barbtries
(28,702 posts)collect all the phones. all the computers. stick it to him.
trump next, please. in fact, all the trumps and kushner too
H2O Man
(73,333 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,374 posts) Under Mr. Trump, senior political appointees in the Justice Department repeatedly sought to block such a warrant, The New York Times reported, slowing the investigation as it was gaining momentum last year. After Merrick B. Garland was confirmed as President Bidens attorney general, the Justice Department lifted its objection to the search.
Oscarthegreat
(121 posts)The dye has been cast.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)If he performed an illegal act during that interminable, wretched saga, he was not acting as a lawyer, but a co-conspirator.
Botany
(70,291 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)rgbecker
(4,806 posts)"I was just kidding! Any reasonable FBI agent would get the satire."
electric_blue68
(14,623 posts)🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
😜🤪😜🤪😜
Especially as a NYC'r who hated him as Mayor!
mjvpi
(1,384 posts)After all of this time, and rumors that Lev Parnes was cooperating, maybe electronic devices that have been wiped are almost as damning. If they have the other side of conversations with Rudy in evidence and then Rudys side doesnt exist anymore? I dont know the law, but that would seem like obstruction of justice.
reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)Mr. Costello said. Why would you do this to anyone, let alone someone who was the associate attorney general, United States attorney, the mayor of New York City and the personal lawyer to the 45th president of the United States.
I think that last one explains why.
Bristlecone
(10,084 posts)I look forward to a review someday of the evidence found.
usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)Bristlecone
(10,084 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)have given Rudy a blanket pardon that could be used for this?
SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Rudy's goin' down.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,260 posts)padah513
(2,483 posts)Look out Diaper Don, you can't pardon your way out of this one, and Rudy will throw you under the bus.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)I hope they wore good gloves. They should have been aware that he dials with his butt.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)Whose gif I can't upload, but that's ok.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,764 posts)Yes indeed! (hehe skittles)
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Sorry I'm late here, my friend, but I'm hopeful & excited to know the wheels of justice are beginning to roll.
🎉
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)A tenant in former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's apartment building told reporters on Wednesday that she saw investigators "bringing out a lot of stuff" after they raided his apartment and seized his electronic devices.
The FBI executed search warrants on Giuliani's Manhattan apartment and his office, as well as the Washington, DC, home of one of his associates, Victoria Toensing. Giuliani's lawyer, Robert Costello, also told ABC News that agents served Giuliani's longtime assistant, Jo Ann Zafonte, with a federal grand jury subpoena.
"I just saw people," the tenant in Giuliani's building, Michele Herbert, told reporters after the raid. "I probably saw FBI jackets. But I just saw people, you know, and I saw all of you and I said, 'What is going on?'"
"They're probably, maybe, still up there in his apartment," she added. "I really don't know. They were bringing out a lot of stuff."
Link to tweet
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rudy-giulianis-neighbor-said-she-213417797.html
Grimelle
(219 posts)He unleashed the bloodhounds.