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‘Nobody seems interested’ in helping Rudy Giuliani with accounting duties in bankruptcy case, lawyers claim

‘Nobody seems interested’ in helping Rudy Giuliani with accounting duties in bankruptcy case, lawyers claim

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Rudy Giuliani is having a hard time finding someone to help with the accounting duties in his bankruptcy case and may have to do it on his own, lawyers said in a filing Tuesday. According to the filing, Giuliani had an accountant helping him meet the accounting obligations in the case, but “he had a change of heart and indicated that he no longer wished to help prepare the monthly operating reports.” Giuliani has reached out to “a number of accounting firms” for their help, “however, no one seems interested in taking the assignment.” Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, filed for bankruptcy in December, just days after a jury ordered him to pay a staggering $148 million to two former Georgia election workers who he falsely claimed committed election fraud in 2020. In the months leading up to his bankruptcy filing, Giuliani defended against increasing legal troubles for his role in former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The filing Tuesday was meant to explain why Giuliani had not filed …

Could you get by on a measly ,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t | Arwa Mahdawi

Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t | Arwa Mahdawi

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‘Bankruptcy” is a surprisingly amorphous term. For poor people, it means not having any money. For corporations and the super-wealthy it means a nifty legal strategy that can shield their riches from lawsuits. And for Rudy Giuliani, the disgraced former mayor of New York City and personal attorney of Donald Trump, it means being forced to try to subsist on a measly $43,000 (£34,200) a month. Half a million dollars in spending money a year might seem a princely sum to the common man, but “Sir” Rudy (recipient of an honorary knighthood) is anything but. We’re talking about a gentleman with elevated tastes here: a bon vivant who, during a legal battle with his estranged third wife, was accused of spending $7,000 on fountain pens and $12,000 on cigars over a five-month period. In that same timeframe, his ex-wife’s lawyer claimed he spent $286,000 on his alleged lover, $165,000 on personal travel and $447,938 “for his own enjoyment”. That’s a lot of enjoyment. Giuliani’s spendthrift ways are now facing legal roadblocks. In December, a judge …

Rudy Giuliani fantasizes about a more racist “SNL” in bizarre rant

Rudy Giuliani fantasizes about a more racist “SNL” in bizarre rant

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During a recent episode of Rudy Giuliani’s podcast, “America’s Mayor Live,” the former New York City mayor and Trump associate went on a tirade, decrying “Saturday Night Live” for turning away from “suggestively racist” humor. In the episode, which aired on Tuesday, Giuliani alleges that “SNL” “got intimidated of saying anything that might be suggestively racist,” which, he says, is racist “in itself.” Giuliani goes on to express his wish for comics to have thrown more racist humor at former President Barack Obama, saying, “If you’re not going to make fun of a Black president, well, then you’re a racist, aren’t you?” The lawyer and former U.S. Attorney, who faces disbarment, also brought up “SNL” writer Colin Jost’s set at the White House correspondents’ dinner, struggling to get his name right. “Colin Posti? What was his name? Colin Kosti? Coast-y? Coastin? (Yost) Yost Colin! Was that his name?” he said. A producer off-camera eventually fed him “Colin Yost,” still wrong.  Giuliani, facing charges and co-conspirator labels in several plots to overturn the 2020 election, also described the brown …

Rudy Giuliani, Who Filed for Bankruptcy Last Year, Can’t Get By on a ,000-a-Month Budget

Rudy Giuliani, Who Filed for Bankruptcy Last Year, Can’t Get By on a $43,000-a-Month Budget

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After Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last year, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the election workers to whom he was ordered to pay $148 million after being found liable for defamation, called bullshit. Specifically, they alleged in a court filing that the former New York City mayor had filed for bankruptcy protection in an effort to avoid paying them what they were owed, saying he had “a history of engaging the judicial system in bad faith” and that his tactics were an obvious attempt to “hold off creditors” and “gut their legal rights.” And while Giuliani very likely does not have nearly $150 million, he very clearly has some money left in the bank. Though, based on spending habits that have recently come to light, that sum is dwindling every day. The New York Times reports that despite agreeing in bankruptcy court to stick to a comical monthly budget of $43,000—about the amount he draws from Social Security and retirement accounts—the mayor turned Trump attorney spent nearly $120,000 in January. That figure covered “60 transactions on Amazon, …

Ty Cobb responds to Giuliani indictment, says he ‘sold his soul’ for Trump

Ty Cobb responds to Giuliani indictment, says he ‘sold his soul’ for Trump

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Former White House attorney Ty Cobb on Wednesday suggested that Rudy Guiliani “sold his soul” to protect former President Trump following an Arizona grand jury indictment charging him for his alleged role in a “fake elector” scheme. Cobb, in an interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett, reflected on the newly unsealed indictment against Guiliani -the former mayor of New York City turned Trump attorney – alongside a group of other Trump allies and 11 “alternate electors” who signed documents purporting to be the state’s valid electors in December 2020. Among those indicted includes Boris Epshteyn, a longtime Trump adviser, whom Cobb noted is still “very much” in Trump’s “inner circle.” “And very protective of the former president and protective to the point that Giuliani reached when he arguably sold his soul to protect the president under circumstances that were improper,” he continued. The Arizona grand jury indictment accuses seven Trump aides and 11 pro-Trump Arizona Republicans of allegedly attempting to prevent the lawful transfer of power from Trump to President Biden following the 2020 election. …

Rudy Giuliani should sell .5 million Florida condo, creditors claim

Rudy Giuliani should sell $3.5 million Florida condo, creditors claim

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Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 15, 2023. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Creditors want to force Rudy Giuliani to sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to help pay his significant debts, according to a court document filed on Friday. The former New York City mayor filed for bankruptcy protection in December, citing myriad unpaid debts including a $148 million payment to two Georgia election poll workers who he falsely claimed had tampered with the 2020 election ballots while he was serving as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump. Giuliani has argued that he does not have the funds to pay his debts, the Friday court filing said: “According to the Debtor’s counsel, ‘there’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.’” But the document cited a flurry of expenses Giuliani currently pays to maintain his lifestyle. For example, Giuliani spends tens of thousands of dollars a month to maintain his Florida …

Rudy Giuliani lays bare his finances in bankruptcy hearing

Rudy Giuliani lays bare his finances in bankruptcy hearing

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Rudy Giuliani appears outside bankruptcy court in Manhattan on 7 February (Alex Woodward/The Independent) Flanked by two attorneys at a desk in a small conference room, Rudy Giuliani sat through a federal bankruptcy court hearing that often felt more like a free-wheeling, wide-ranging interview about his financial affairs than a court’s probe to determine how, exactly, he can dig himself out. The hearing near Manhattan’s Wall Street on Wednesday was steps away from Cipriani, the venue where the former New York City mayor and one-time attorney for Donald Trump joined the former president and loyalists in December to launch his 2024 campaign. Less than two months later, Mr Giuliani was on the fifth floor of a bankruptcy court down the street, where he testified for the first time about his strained financial state after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of a nearly $150m defamation judgment for his election lies. The hearing combed through dozens of pages of financial statements, including potential impacts from pending lawsuits for defamation and other allegations that could …

Rudy Giuliani targets Donald Trump for ‘unpaid legal fees’ in new bankruptcy filing

Rudy Giuliani targets Donald Trump for ‘unpaid legal fees’ in new bankruptcy filing

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Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has listed a claim against the one-term president over unpaid legal fees in a new bankruptcy filing. The ex-New York City mayor includes a “possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J Trump.” in the 26 January filing, which states that the amount is “undetermined.” Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month, days after a federal judge ordered him to “immediately” pay more than $148m to a pair of Georgia election workers a jury determined he defamed. Mr Giuliani represented Mr Trump in a string of unsuccessful lawsuits contesting the results of the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden. Mr Trump’s legal fees owed to Mr Giuliani have previously been reported. The New York Times wrote in August 2023 that “Mr Trump has never explicitly told Mr Giuliani why he is effectively stiffing him, but the former president has pointed out that he lost the cases related to the election.” Rudy Giuliani speaks to members of the media on 21 January 2024 in Manchester, New Hampshire …

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani raises less than million in legal defense fund

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani raises less than $1 million in legal defense fund

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Rudy Giuliani was able to raise less than $1 million from just 13 donors, among them his friends and a group of former President Donald Trump’s allies, to help pay off his legal fees as he faces a $146 million defamation judgment and a criminal prosecution, a new Federal Election Commission filing reviewed by CNBC shows. Giuliani’s political action committee raised just over $727,000 from August through December, according to the FEC filing Thursday. His son Andrew Giuliani, who is helping run the PAC, did not return a request for comment on the haul. The single biggest donation came from a Corona del Mar, California, woman named Caryn Borland, who donated $300,000, more than 40% of the total donations to Giuliani, the filing shows. Borland, who also is known as Caryn Hildenbrand, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last year, the Caryn L Hildenbrand Living Trust donated $1 million to a legal defense fund for Trump, which also was the single largest donation to that fund, which had raised $1.6 million, according …

Rudy Giuliani Accused of Using Bankruptcy Filing to Stiff the Election Workers He Owes 8 Million

Rudy Giuliani Accused of Using Bankruptcy Filing to Stiff the Election Workers He Owes $148 Million

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When Rudy Giuliani was ordered last month to pay Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the 2020 election workers he defamed, nearly $150 million, the resounding response heard ’round the world went something like, “There’s no way he’s got even close to that kind of money.” But clearly, he’s got some money, which is why Freeman and Moss are calling bullshit on his decision to file for bankruptcy protection, which they believe is an attempt to get out of paying them a dime. Per CNN, the mother-daughter duo alleged in a court filing Thursday that they attempted to collect some of the money they were awarded, days after a jury ordered the former mayor to pay the women $148 million. But they could not do so because Giuliani had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Filing for bankruptcy allowed Giuliani temporary but immediate relief from paying debts owed. He has also said he intends to appeal the verdict but would, conveniently, have to get permission from the bankruptcy judge.) “If Mr. Giuliani truly wanted to appeal the …