“America’s Mayor” was Rudy Giuliani’s nickname after 9/11 – but sadly he has been disgraced and gone downhill ever since then after teaming up with Trump and the whole Trump 2020 election “Big Lie” mess.
Now add this to his potentially criminal trail pending in several places like the Dominion lawsuit against him and potential indictment pending in GA with DA Wills there.
This news about him is from NBC and it is pretty shocking with
this article headline:
“Giuliani accused of
offering to sell Trump pardons for $2 million each in new lawsuit”
The lawsuit includes allegations of sexual assault and harassment,
as well as wage theft and discussions of plans to overturn the 2020 election.
The story thus far
(formatted to fit the blog):
A woman who said she worked for Rudy Giuliani during the
last two years of the Trump administration alleged in a wide-ranging lawsuit
that Giuliani, Trump’s former attorney, discussed selling presidential pardons and detailed plans to overturn
the 2020 election results.
In the 70-page complaint filed
in state court in New York on Monday, Noelle Dunphy said that after Giuliani
hired her in January 2019 he sexually assaulted and harassed her; refused to
pay her wages; and often made sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks; then
adding that she had recordings of numerous interactions with him.
Dunphy is seeking $10 million in compensatory and punitive
damages. She said Giuliani hired her for $1 million a year in addition to
expenses and pro-bono legal representation for a domestic abuse case against a
former partner. After she was hired, Dunphy alleged, Giuliani kept her
employment “secret” and paid her only about $12,000.
He also reimbursed some of her business expenses, but still owes
her about $1,988,000 in unpaid wages. She said hue fired her in January 2021.
Ted Goodman a Giuliani spokesperson said in a written
statement: “Mayor Rudy Giuliani unequivocally denies the allegations raised by
Ms. Dunphy” adding: “Mayor Giuliani’s lifetime of public service speaks for
itself and he will pursue all available remedies and counterclaims.”
Ms. Dunphy alleged in her
suit that Giuliani talked about presidential pardons. She said Giuliani claimed
to have “immunity and that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and
President Trump would split.” (FYI: The lawsuit did not suggest any pardons
were sold.)
Justin
Kelton, Dunphy's attorney, said on MSNBC that there is not a recording of the
pardon conversation and added: “We do expect that it will be corroborated in
other ways.” He then noted that the complaint alleges that another person was
present for that conversation who was
Lev Parnas, a
former Giuliani associate and that her attorneys would like to speak to Parnas
about it.
A spokesperson for Trump's
2024 campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the
lawsuit.
More Background: Hours
before leaving in January 2021, Trump pardoned 74 people
and commuted the sentences of 70 others.
Giuliani also denied allegations that he sought a
pardon himself, but he told Dunphy that she could refer
pardon-seekers to him, so long as they did not go through the
normal channels of the Office of the Pardon Attorney because they would
be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) also according
to the lawsuit.
Dunphy also alleged
that Giuliani provided a glimpse into plans to overturn the election if Trump
lost, telling her in the lawsuit: “That Trump’s team would claim that there
was voter fraud and that Trump had actually won the election.”
FYI: Giuliani’s NY law license was suspended in June
after the state appeals court ruled that he made “demonstrably false and
misleading statements about voter fraud in the 2020 election.”
He also sought to defend himself against
other election-related claims made by an attorney disciplinary
committee in Washington, DC in December, which said he “weaponized his law license in a
failed election fraud lawsuit in 2020.”
Last year, attorneys for Giuliani were informed that he was a target of a
criminal probe in GA looking into efforts by Trump
and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. The
prosecutor in that GA case has said charging decisions would be revealed this summer.
NBC NEWS STORY CORRECTION (May
16, 2023): A previous version of
this article misstated the nature of some conversations Dunphy said she had with
Giuliani. She alleged that Giuliani said he was selling pardons and discussing
plans to overturn the 2020 election, but she did not say those remarks were
recorded.
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My 2 Cents: Regardless of the correction I believe based on
the fact and honesty that Ms. Dunphy probably will provide under oath at any trial
is that Rudy Giuliani is going down. Maybe tied to Trump as well.
More about Ms. Dunphy is here and here.
He is badly tainted after
being tied to Trump this long mostly over the lies and public statements about
the 2020 election. I believe the truth will come out and he will be found
guilty.
We shall see for sure.
Stay tuned.
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