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I dunno what has happened with Giuliani's finances, perhaps they have gone to crap just like the rest of his life. Last I heard though, he was worth around $30M.

Here they say $90M: https://caknowledge.com/rudy-giuliani-net-worth/
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He's got a big-spending lifestyle. Also, I suspect that his law and consulting practices had big overheads and thus were not all that profitable, even though for years he was able to generate a huge cash flow (I've seen a figure of $100 Million for Giuliani Partners). And it seems likely that noun, verb, and 9/11 are no longer very marketable. Finally, he's a defendant in criminal investigations and at least a couple high-risk civil lawsuits. Even individuals with 8-figure fortunes can find themselves stretched by the costs of that kind of litigation.
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And I would assume that he figured out how to hide his money back before his brains leaked out of his ears.
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Avoids the slammer.
Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski wrote: The judge lifted Rudy’s contempt of court today after he missed an earlier date saying he wrote it down wrong. Leaving court today, he alleges he has previously paid his ex-wife in full and will prove it at the next hearing.
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Insightful and beautifully written book review by Louis Menand in the New Yorker: "Was Rudy Giuliani Always So Awful?"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022 ... s-so-awful (paywalled; limited number of free articles per month)

The entire article is worth reading. I've quoted some tidbits below.

First, the marvelous opening paragraph:
Mayor of New York City is famously a dead-end job. The last New York mayor to win higher office was John T. Hoffman, and that was in 1868. He became governor. Every mayor since then has found the way up barred. And, for some, the way up turned into the way down.
Relevant to our discussion of Giuliani's wealth is this passage:
During his last year as mayor, Giuliani claimed (amid divorce proceedings, so a grain of salt is necessary) that he was worth seven thousand dollars. But he got rich virtually overnight through a management-and-security consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, that he founded shortly after leaving City Hall—and shortly after September 11th had made him an international celebrity.

Giuliani Partners started out as a pure buck-raking operation. The Mayor and his partners had little if any experience in management consulting. And it would be a stretch to say that they had any experience in security, apart from having lived through the greatest security failure in American history. Many were cronies of the Mayor’s from city government.

As Andrew Kirtzman puts it in his lively new biography, “Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor” (Simon & Schuster), they evidently calculated that “Giuliani’s fame and reputation for integrity could be squeezed like a washcloth for all types of moneymaking ventures.” They calculated correctly. In 2002 alone, Giuliani took in an estimated eight million dollars in speaking fees. A spinoff outfit, Giuliani Capital Advisors, made $84.7 million in 2004. By 2007, Giuliani’s worth was estimated to be thirty million dollars. At one point, he owned six homes, including a nine-room co-op on the Upper East Side and a house in the Hamptons, and had eleven country-club memberships.

But his work for Donald Trump has reportedly brought him to the brink of bankruptcy. When he tried to get paid for his services, Trump stiffed him. (Giuliani apparently failed to notice the one-way sign on the Trump loyalty street.) He now hawks collectible coins, health products, and cigars on his podcast, “Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense,” and sells video messages on Cameo for four hundred dollars apiece. In April, he appeared on “The Masked Singer,” where he offered his rendition of “Bad to the Bone” in a rooster costume.
Of course, no outsider knows the truth of Giuliani's financial situation. It might be better than one would assume from his degrading hucksterism. Or worse.
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Good grief. Just take a look at the list of losers.

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Good grief is right!
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Getting the band together again.
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And how many of these folks are also attorneys who could then face bar discipline for compounding the vexatiousness?

Is that a thing? If not, may I suggest that "Compounding the Vexatiousness" is new phrase and I will gladly loan it out to fellow Fogbowsers for free, because sharing is caring. :grouphug:
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"Compounding the vexatiousness" must have mathematical formula, such as compounding interest.
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Actually, you'll need a mortar and pestle to do the compounding.

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humblescribe wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:55 pm Actually, you'll need a mortar and pestle to do the compounding.

:rimshot:
Given that they do lay the vexatiousness on thickly with a trowel, mortar and pestle is probably the way to go.
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“Judge denies Rudy Giuliani’s motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit from Georgia election workers”:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 14707.html
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I lurve the way this opinion begins.
After the polls closed across the country on November 3, 2020—the first Presidential
election in U.S. history to be conducted in the midst of a deadly global pandemic—the results in
some states were immediately called, with either former Vice President Biden or then-President
Trump declared the obvious winner. In other states, including Georgia, the margins of victory
were substantially closer, and voters and candidates went to bed that night not knowing who had
won. As days passed, local and state election officials diligently conducted the counting of
absentee ballots and manual recounts, but the void of clear results became filled with increasingly
outlandish paranoia from those claiming the election was being “stolen.”
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BREAKING:

Federal prosecutors reveal that "criminal charges are NOT forthcoming" against Rudy Giuliani in the SDNY probe.

Story soon,
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Did he flip?
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Happening Now:

D.C. Disciplinary Counsel is about to call Rudy Giuliani as their first witness in his attorney misconduct case.

Watch live here:

ICYMI, roundup of opening statements.
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At the conclusion of the morning session of his Bar disciplinary hearing, Rudy tells his lawyer on a hot mic that he mistakenly put two watches on today.
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Why does FIlipkowski think it was a mistake? Maybe that's just how Roodles rolls :lol:
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Seems Rudy has caught the Gotti disease. If he’s not faking then he has some dementia.
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I've heard people say that he had been drinking hard for years, and has drunk his brain away at this point.

Anyway, some people like to wear 2 watches. *shrug*
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Phoenix520 wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:37 pm Seems Rudy has caught the Gotti disease. If he’s not faking then he has some dementia.
Actually, it was Vinnie "The Chin" Gigante who feigned dementia, but still was convicted
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