Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s business-related interactions with the men charged with campaign finance crimes on Thursday are the subject of a criminal investigation out of New York, according to two reports.
According to ABC News, the probe is being spearheaded by the FBI field office in New York and prosecutors at the SDNY — the same outfit Giuliani used to run, ironically. CNN also reported that the interactions are being investigated by federal authorities.
Two of Giuliani’s associates — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — and two other businessmen were charged Thursday for their attempts to help Giuliani with his Biden smear campaign by ousting the ambassador to Ukraine.
Giuliani told a Fox News reporter Thursday that the timing of the arrests was “extremely suspect” and that he believes that the indictment is tied to his attempts to drum up a phony scandal about the Bidens.
I don’t know about y’all but this doesn’t surprise me one little bit after his behavior the past few years.
It felt inevitable.
Wonder who all he’ll take down with him… Wonder what Spankee is gonna do without his mouthpiece… Wonder what Spankee will do to divert from this…(dog forbid — the betrayal of the Kurds is horrid enough).
the same outfit Giuliani used to run, ironically.
Thought he was smarter than the cops
This will be interesting…the investigation is public, which normally doesn’t happen, so at least someone is trying to make sure that Barr interference is made public if it happens. That speaks to DoJ personnel who do not trust DC to investigate Giuliani fairly. Giuliani himself is in deep trouble, he doesn’t have any way to use executive privilege to cover himself as he’s not a government employee, and the things he has been doing are not ones that a private citizen should do.
And, this is all good, it’s going to take investigations to root out the corruption, and this is likely only the start of where this goes.
Wonder when reporters will start asking Barr if he’ll recuse himself.
Giuliani was always a wanna-be mobster. They wouldn’t let him in, so he went on the law side of the mob (not much difference, really, except in how their funding is sourced).