Bankrupt Giuliani testifies 2020 Trump campaign still owes him roughly $2M
Like one of his ex-clients — 2024 GOP presidential Donald Trump — Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been dealing with both civil and criminal problems. The former New York City mayor is a co-defendant in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference/RICO case against Trump, and he filed for bankruptcy in December after being ordered to pay $148 million to former Georgia election workers Rudy Freeman and Shaye Moss in a civil defamation lawsuit.
Giuliani appeared in bankruptcy court on Wednesday, February 7, describing his financial problems and testifying, according to The Independent, that he is still owed roughly $2 million by Trump's 2020 campaign.
The Independent's Alex Woodward reports, however, that Giuliani "has declined to hold the former president accountable for what he says are unpaid legal fees."
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Giuliani testified that in November 2020, Trump asked him to "take over" his campaign's legal team. The former New York City mayor said that although his expenses were paid, he "never got a salary" — and alleged that he still hasn't been paid around $2 million in fees.
Giuliani testified, "Once I took over, it was my understanding that I would be paid by the campaign for my legal work and my expenses to be paid. When we submitted the invoice for payment, they just paid the expenses — not all, but most. They never paid the legal fees."
The former New York City mayor's efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results have played a major role in his financial and legal problems.
After Trump lost the election to now-President Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes, Giuliani joined him in falsely claiming that the election had been stolen through widespread voter fraud — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked. Two of Giuliani's main targets were Freeman and Moss, who he falsely accused of helping Biden steal the election in Georgia.
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In their defamation lawsuit, Freeman and Moss testified that they were inundated with death threats and suffered considerable hardship because of Giuliani's false accusations. And the jurors who awarded them $148 million in damages agreed that they were severely defamed by him.
Meanwhile, Willis alleges that Giuliani committed criminal acts in Georgia following the 2020 election. Two of the attorneys Giuliani worked with, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, are also co-defendants in Willis' case but have accepted plea deals.
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Read The Independent's full report at this link.
