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Rudy Giuliani is in financial purgatory as his former attorneys sue him for more than $1.3 Million [1]

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Date: 2023-09-20  

Sweet schadenfreude as one of the people most responsible for concocting Mr. Trump’s 2020 coup attempt faces financial ruin. Giuliani must grapple with the legal consequences of his criminal scheme to steal the election by throwing out millions of valid votes in a number of states.

Rudy Giuliani’s former attorneys sue him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees Katelyn Polantz By A law firm that represented Rudy Giuliani during recent years of investigations and lawsuits is now suing him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees, as the former New York City mayor is facing growing bills related to fallout for his actions around the 2020 election for Donald Trump.

His last payment to the firm came four days ago, for $10,000, according to the court filing. The firm handled Giuliani’s legal work from late 2019 until July this year, the filing said. Giuliani provided a statement through his spokesman, Ted Goodman, Monday night, saying, “I can’t express how personally hurt I am by what Bob Costello has done. It’s a real shame when lawyers do things like this, and all I will say is that their bill is way in excess to anything approaching legitimate fees.”

Costello and his law firm recently won a judge’s order for Bannon to pay $500,000 in unpaid legal fees. Davidoff had sued Bannon in February, in a similar court action to what Giuliani now faces.

Trump’s PAC recently paid off more than $300,000 Giuliani owed to a provider who kept access to some of his electronic data that he’s needed to produce in litigation, and Trump has promoted fundraisers for Giuliani’s legal defense fund. That still may not make a dent into what Giuliani ultimately owes. On top of his bills with Davidoff, he may need to pay thousands more to the data hosting provider. He also faces more than $100,000 in sanctions for failure to respond to parts of a 2020 election defamation lawsuit and is awaiting a jury trial on potentially significant damages in that case, and had to post bond as he awaits criminal trial – another costly venture – in Georgia, among other ongoing legal fallout that’s largely unresolved.

A normal defendant might consider flipping on Mr. Trump, but not Giuliani. He has shown no inclination of coming clean on his role as a coup organizer.

Giuliani stirs up the mob calling for “trial buy combat” on Jan. 6th 2021.

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