Federal Investigators Execute Search Warrant at Rudy Giuliani's Apartment

[PunkinPi]

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. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

One of the people said the investigators had seized Mr. Giuliani’s 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. Trump’s 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]

1. Just saw the breaking!

[PunkinPi]

3. I bet his hair dye is rolling down his face again.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Maybe he'll try to hide out at

the "Four Seasons" (Total Landscaping) here in Philly under a pile of mulch!

[C Moon]

29. :D Good times!

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Wait

you changed your moon again.

Maybe he'll run back to Gettysburg and lay down on a battlefield or something.

[PunkinPi]

41. They gave him the boot...

Link to tweet

Wrong apartment. We kicked him out months ago.

[BumRushDaShow]

42. Bwah!!!

He's on the run!

[PunkinPi]

44. Just like his hair dye. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

54. It has gotten rather warm today

on the east coast!

[Grokenstein]

61. If he hid in a pile of manure

they'd never find him, he'd blend in so perfectly.

[BumRushDaShow]

62. He wouldn't have to worry about the hair dye either at that point

[onetexan]

36. LOL

[jimfields33]

4. Wouldn't he have thrown his computer and phone from trump administration in a lake by now?

Seriously, if he still has his electronics from that timeframe then he is dumb and deserves whatever comes. He’s rich. A new computer and phone is loose change to him.

[Dream Girl]

6. He's had months to prepare for this.

I would imagine he’d had covered his tracks by now.

[PJMcK]

11. Perhaps not

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.

[H2O Man]

18. +1

[C Moon]

31. Hopefully not. See the image in the reply above: that shows how competent and thorough he is.

[PatSeg]

8. It is unbelievable how careless and stupid he has been

He was a U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York. He must have known this was coming.

[Mysterian]

33. If the Trump administration taught us anything,

it's that lawyers and doctors can be really stupid people despite their academic degrees.

[PatSeg]

40. People who worked for and with Rudy

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]

49. I think his

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]

57. It certainly looks that way

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]

59. Here in Philly, being in such close proximity to NYC and all the goings on

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]

64. Damn

I was living in Chicago at the time, so I really didn't know much about the man.

[BumRushDaShow]

65. Yeah his crap goes back a long way!

[PatSeg]

68. I can't say I'm surprised

[cstanleytech]

67. Might have thought he would be immune since he had held those positions in the past and he would

not be the first high level government official that thought that.

[PatSeg]

69. And he certainly isn't the first one

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]

22. Or Frantically Stuffing Documents Down His Pants nt

[C Moon]

32. :D I can see that! It sounds so much like him!

[ace3csusm]

30. Unless he was holding the info to remind

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]

66. I'm thinking they're not after Rudy, but after his "receipts" he said he kept

on his phone that authorized his activities by and on behalf of the former guy.

[tinrobot]

55. The guy who leaves incriminating voicemails on the wrong people's phones?

I'm not so sure he's smart enough to hide his digital tracks.

[jimfields33]

63. So true.

[Leghorn21]

2. Ohhhh, BABY!!

I am so deliriously happy!!!!

SO happy!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

[PunkinPi]

9. Yep, get your snacks and drink of choice at the ready.

BTW, I love your new DU handle.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Done

Link to tweet

[sarcasmo]

43. Today's Rudy interview on Fox News will be funny.

[Hortensis]

58. Yes. Just hearing about the raid was fun. :) nt

[Blue Owl]

10. Reading this, I thought I had dyed and gone to heaven!

[PunkinPi]

12. I see what you did there...

[tanyev]

15. LOL.

[lagomorph777]

50. Hee!

[dchill]

13. RUDY RAIDED! ... (Better headline.)

[Jon King]

14. I imagine there is lots of very odd stuff in that apartment.....

It might not be on the search warrant, but you know those agents will come across some odd stuff in Rudy's cave.

[barbtries]

16. this is great news.

collect all the phones. all the computers. stick it to him.
trump next, please. in fact, all the trumps and kushner too

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

[yaesu]

19. The russian bots on twitter are going ballistic over this, protecting their #2 agent. nt

[Ziggysmom]

20. Karma is out there! Go Merrick!

“ 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 Biden’s attorney general, the Justice Department lifted its objection to the search.”

[Oscarthegreat]

23. In other words

The dye has been cast.

[BobTheSubgenius]

24. That can't be all they are looking for, can it?

If he performed an illegal act during that interminable, wretched saga, he was not acting as a lawyer, but a co-conspirator.

[Botany]

25. Is this because of Rudy's Ukraine stuff (dirt on the Bidens) or the US Capitol riot/attempted coup?

[lagomorph777]

51. Yes.

[rgbecker]

26. He'll use the go to GOP response:

"I was just kidding! Any reasonable FBI agent would get the satire."

[electric_blue68]

27. Mwaaaaahahahaaaaaaaa!!!! (hopefully)

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞


😜🤪😜🤪😜





Especially as a NYC'r who hated him as Mayor!

[mjvpi]

28. One can only assume that the case was solid last summer.

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 Rudy’s side doesn’t exist anymore? I don’t know the law, but that would seem like obstruction of justice.

[reACTIONary]

35. Mr. Costello said....

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]

37. The best part is that Rudy really is a careless person

I look forward to a review someday of the evidence found.

[usaf-vet]

47. I hope it is as much sheer arrogance as carelessness. I'm above any intrusion into my actions.

[Bristlecone]

56. You're right. His carelessness is a symptom of his hubris

[Evolve Dammit]

38. America's Mayor about to go down like America's Dad did. Differnt crimes, same ending?

[BigmanPigman]

39. I don't know much about pardons but could tRump

have given Rudy a blanket pardon that could be used for this?

[SayItLoud]

45. There is not a chance in Hell he doesn't have a blanket Federal pardon. NT.

[lagomorph777]

48. If it wasn't published, it won't be taken seriously.

Rudy's goin' down.

[lagomorph777]

46. Wooooooh! How many other hideaways does Rudy have, though??

[NoMoreRepugs]

52. Hopefully Stone hasn't been coaching him on how to hide communications.

[padah513]

53. And so it begins.

Look out Diaper Don, you can't pardon your way out of this one, and Rudy will throw you under the bus.

[Major Nikon]

60. ...

[Hekate]

70. Watching this on Nicolle Wallace and doing my happy dance now

[FailureToCommunicate]

71. I'm getting ready to spend some quality time with Orville Redenbacher!

[chriscan64]

72. If they seized his electronic devices...

I hope they wore good gloves. They should have been aware that he dials with his butt.

[geardaddy]

73. Sweet!

[GoneOffShore]

74. Now I'm happy like a squirrel. Or my slightly psychotic raccoon spirit animal.

Whose gif I can't upload, but that's ok.

[GoneOffShore]

75. There are some great comments on the NYTimes story.

[YoshidaYui]

76. I REALLY like where this is going

Yes indeed! (hehe skittles)

[Duppers]

77. YAY!

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]

78. Rudy Giuliani's neighbor said she saw the feds 'bringing out a lot of stuff' after raiding his

Manhattan apartment

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]

79. Republicans may wish Merrick Garland was on the Supreme Court.

He unleashed the bloodhounds.