Dec 09, 2019 · Rudy Giuliani and MEK – Trump’s Shadow Foreign Policy Adviser. Inside Giuliani’s dual roles: Power-broker-for-hire and shadow foreign policy adviser. President-elect Donald Trump talks with Rudolph W. Giuliani after a meeting at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey on Nov. 20, 2016.
Rudy Giuliani served as NYC mayor from 1994 to 2001 (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Rudy Giuliani is banned from practicing law in New York over 'false statements to courts and public' while he was Donald Trump's lawyer. The former Big Apple mayor was suspended on Thursday, June 24.
He added, "Usually a person who has been a former assistant US attorney, a US attorney, a mayor, the associate attorney general, usually they receive a subpoena, not have their home raided.". Giuliani alleged that the FBI is trying to frame him and that the lawyers who were connected to Trump would be raided.
Giuliani apparently admitted that at one point he billed $20,000 a day for his services to the president, which reportedly caused significant tension. Trump eventually instructed his aides not to pay the lawyer's fees, per CNN.
Giuliani explained this choice by reason ing that he could be called as a witness.
Although Trump was eventually acquitted, he still faces legal trouble for his actions before Joe Biden's inauguration, according to AlJazeera. Giuliani and Trump are both being sued by the NAACP and Representative Bennie Thompson over their involvement in the deadly Capitol building riots, as The Hill reported on Feb. 16, 2021.
Although Jason Miller denied any personal rift between Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump, The Independent reported in February 2021 that there had been rumors of a dispute over the former mayor's legal fees. Giuliani apparently admitted that at one point he billed $20,000 a day for his services to the president, which reportedly caused significant tension. Trump eventually instructed his aides not to pay the lawyer's fees, per CNN.
Donald Trump has reportedly ended his professional relationship with Rudy Giuliani, as the former Mayor of New York is " not currently representing" Trump in any legal capacity. According to The Hill, a spokesman for the former president, Jason Miller, clarified in a statement in February 2021 that "Mayor Giuliani is not currently representing ...
Giuliani, himself once a top New York prosecutor and then mayor of the city, was a personal lawyer for Trump when the president was impeached in December 2019 for seeking political help from Ukraine. Giuliani spent months trying to help Trump find dirt in Ukraine on election rival Joe Biden and Biden's son Hunter, during 2018-2020.
The impeachment investigation into Trump revealed extensive involvement by Giuliani in Ukrainian affairs. He appeared to take part in a push by powerful Ukrainian business and political figures to have Trump remove the US ambassador, Masha Yovanovitch.
Federal investigators raided the New York apartment of former US president Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani early Wednesday as part of a probe into his dealings in Ukraine. Investigators with search warrants combed Giuliani's residence and a separate office, seizing electronic devices.
Two Ukrainian-born men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who helped Giuliani in those efforts were arrested in October 2019 and charged with illegally funneling large donations to a pro-Trump fundraising committee. - Legal thuggery' -.
According to reports, the FBI and the Justice Department's prosecutor in New York had sought search warrants for Giuliani's phones last year, but were denied that while Trump remained in office, until January 20.