Rudy Giuliani Isn't the Shadiest Lawyer in the Trump-Ukraine Scandal

[douglas9]

For the past few months, Rudy Giuliani has chewed up screen time and headlines at a rate he hasn’t seen in nearly two decades. With every development surrounding President Trump’s unprecedented efforts to strong-arm Ukraine, there’s Giuliani, keening on cable news, pushing outlandish claims about Joe Biden’s supposed corruption in Ukraine, pumping out conspiracies and butt-dials alike. Indeed, no American this side of Trump has played such a central role in the unfurling impeachment saga as Giuliani.

But Giuliani’s not the lone American spearheading the smears against Biden. He’s had help from Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, a husband-and-wife lawyer team directly connected to every other major player in Trump’s impending impeachment, including a man the United States previously described as an “upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime.” And like Giuliani, they have avoided registering any of their recent foreign work with the Justice Department. Understanding their role—and their spiraling relationships with all the other major players on both sides of the Atlantic involved in the ongoing impeachment revelations—may well be the key to getting a handle on how we ended up here in the first place.

Toensing and diGenova first gained notoriety during the Clinton administration, when the former federal prosecutors became sought-after commentators during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. At the time, the pair were regular fixtures on cable news, speaking out against Bill Clinton, and were even at the center of a retracted story about the Secret Service supposedly witnessing “compromising” actions between Clinton and Lewinsky. The couple’s legal work picked up, ranging from representing a former congressman who reportedly demanded campaign contributions from foreign lobbyists to helping lead probes into illegal fundraising on behalf of Democrats.

Just trying to keep track of their multiple roles is enough to induce a migraine.

https://gen.medium.com/rudy-giuliani-isnt-the-shadiest-lawyer-in-the-trump-ukraine-scandal-14cb9f7c6ceb

[dchill]

1. Sleazebags of the lowest order.

Officers of the court. My ass. I wonder if they're even licensed to practice.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Those two have been up to shit for years, and they probably are even more compromised

than Rudy, if that's possible.

[Gothmog]

3. Toensing and diGenova are really slimey and a disgrace to the Bar

[dawnie51]

4. There's a lot of disgraces to the bar....

including Barr. And Sekulow, and McGahn, etc. etc. etc. I would like to see all of them Disbarred.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Puff piece ...

for Rudy.

[dalton99a]

6. And Brady Toensing is their son

Brady Toensing—whose mother Victoria Toensing and and step-father Joe diGenova are key players in the rapidly growing Ukraine scandal—joined the DOJ in June as a senior counsel in its Office of Legal Policy.

The DOJ won’t say how Brady Toensing got the job, but the entire family has close ties to Trump. In 2016, Brady Toensing served as Trump’s Vermont campaign chair.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/brady-toensing-justice-department/

[Ford_Prefect]

7. What does it take to subpoena them? Maybe the Judiciary Committee needs some "expert" testimony?

[Throckmorton]

8. Yes. Looks like a genuine race to the bottom.

But, I expected no less from hair trumpenfurher
.