Rudy Giuliani Whines About The Feds ‘Taking Away His Money’ During Rambling Podcast

 

Rudy Giuliani is still angry about the criminal investigation that he was targeted in several years ago, even though the investigation ended without him being charged with anything. On his podcast this past weekend, Giuliani and his girlfriend complained about the fact that he had money "taken away" from him that could certainly come in handy now that he's filed for bankruptcy and is still facing millions in lawsuits. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/2667770781/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!:    / @theringoffire   Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!:   / theringoffire   Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel:    / theringoffire   Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffiremedia   Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork  

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Rudy Giuliani will not stop whining about his financial troubles. And to be perfectly honest, if I were facing this, uh, same kind of financial problems that Rudy Giuliani is, I, I'd probably be pretty whiny about it too. But I'm also not a former elected official that unsuccessfully ran for president. So, you know, we kind of have to hold Rudy Giuliani to a little bit of a higher standard here. But on his podcast this past weekend, Rudy Giuliani went off on this ridiculous tangent talking about how the government allegedly took a lot of money away from him. So I'm gonna read you what Rudy Giuliani had to say and then give you the context of what he's trying to argue. First he said, uh, Christopher Ray, FBI director is another traitor to the United States to withhold the hard drive in the 2020 election, basically, effectively killed a couple hundred thousand Ukrainians. Thank you, Christopher Ray, traitor. He was then asked by his co-host slash girlfriend Maria Ryan, uh, she said that he's been wrongly accused of peddling Russian propaganda, to which Giuliani said a complete lie for which they have never apologized for or, or given me the money they took away from me as a result of that, including the destruction of my law practice. So Giuliani is out there claiming that the government took money away from him, right? And, and they somehow also took away his law practice. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you right now, neither of those things happened. Here is what did happen. First and foremost when Giuliani's whining about the hard drive. He's talking about, of course, hunter Biden's laptop. And I say it like that because, oh my God, I'm sick and tired of saying the phrase Hunter Biden's laptop. First of all, Giuliani, it should have been illegal, and I'm pretty sure it kind of is for you to even have possession of that laptop. Okay? The laptop shop owner gave it to the FBI. How did Rudy Giuliani get it right? Why is that question still not answered in this year, April of 2024? How did Rudy Giuliani get it? Why did he get it? Where did he get it from? And why is he not in jail for stealing the personal data of another American citizen and disseminating that data? That's illegal. If I go to your house, take your laptop's hard drive, copy the data from it, and send it out to the world, you better believe I'm going to prison. So Giuliani, if my best advice to you, even though you're the lawyer I'm not, is maybe shut the f up about the laptop, because there's a lot of legal questions surrounding that, that You are not gonna like the answers to. So if I were you, I'd stop reminding people that you had that because you weren't supposed to have it. And that alone warrants a criminal investigation into your activities. Not to mention, of course, Matt Gaetz has gotten a hold of it, how, why that's not okay. Uh, Fox News, Tucker Carlson said he had the contents of the laptop, mailed it to himself, and then oh, duh, mail lost it. I guess remember that story? Like so many unanswered questions about this laptop, none of which actually involve Hunter Biden. I think there's a lot of criminal activity involved, but I don't think it's from Hunter. I think it's from all these people who illegally most likely got their hands on it. And we don't have answers to that, but Giuliani like, oh, they took this money from me.

 

Giuliani’s Son, Former Aide Hit With Subpoenas in Asset Search

Story by Evan Ochsner

Andrew Giuliani© Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

(Bloomberg Law) -- Rudolph Giuliani’s creditors expanded their probe into the former New York mayor’s finances, filing more than a dozen subpoenas in his bankruptcy case on Friday.

The formal requests, filed Friday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, were made by Giuliani’s official committee of unsecured creditors, who are seeking to uncover any hidden assets they believe should be distributed to them.

The committee served subpoenas to Giuliani’s son Andrew Giuliani, president of his third-party litigation defense fund; Maria Ryan, who co-hosts a podcast with Giuliani; and to Giuliani’s former assistant. The committee also filed document requests for corporate entities affiliated with Giuliani, and to Giuliani himself.

The former assistant, Noelle Dunphy, is a member of that creditors committee, and has said she has access to 23,000 of Giuliani’s personal emails.

Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 last year, saying he was unable to pay a $148 million defamation judgment brought by Georgia election workers.

The subpoenas filed Friday seek information about Giuliani’s finances, including communications about his income, expenses, bank accounts, and small businesses.

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The subpoena to Dunphy asks for “Documents and Communications concerning the nature of any legal services that Giuliani has performed, or continue to perform, for Donald J. Trump.”

The creditors committee previously also hired a forensic accounting firm to probe his finances, including money tied to legal services done for former President Donald Trump.

Dunphy sued Giuliani for sexual assault, harassment, and wage theft. In her complaint filed last year, she said Giuliani loaded his email account onto her computer, giving her access to his inbox.

“Since Giuliani gave Ms. Dunphy access to his email account, she had access to information that was, upon information and belief, privileged, confidential, and highly sensitive,” Dunphy’s complaint said.

Giuliani has said he’s owed about $2 million from the Trump Campaign and the Republican National Committee for legal fees related to the 2020 campaign. Creditors have considered suing Trump to recover those fees.

Dunphy has access to emails “from, to, or concerning President Trump” and his family, as well as top Republican officials and advisers, according to her lawsuit.

The unsecured creditors committee is represented by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Giuliani is represented by Berger Fischoff Shumer Wexler & Goodman LLP.

The case is Rudolph W. Giuliani, Bankr. S.D.N.Y., No. 23-12055-shl, 4/19/24.

To contact the reporter on this story: Evan Ochsner in Washington at eochsner@bloombergindustry.com

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anna Yukhananov at ayukhananov@bloombergindustry.com

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