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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.

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.

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.

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

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.”

BREAKING:

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

Story soon,
@LawCrimeNews

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.

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.

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.