Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers are quitting their jobs.
The disgraced New York politician’s lead attorney, Kenneth Caruso, and attorney David Labkowski dropped him as a client on Wednesday, saying in a movement in federal court that they had reached a “fundamental disagreement” with Giuliani.
The legal duo argued that they had the right to distance themselves from their client, citing a New York rule that allows lawyers to withdraw when a client “insists on taking action that would give the lawyer a has a fundamental difference of opinion’, when the client insists on “filing a claim or defense that is not justified under existing law and that cannot be supported by good faith arguments”, or when “the client fails to cooperate working on representation or representation otherwise makes it unreasonably difficult for the lawyer to effectively carry out his work. ”
Giuliani’s spokesman, Ted Goodman, said this The independent that Donald Trump’s ally had not been informed of the denial of his legal representation.
“Mr. Caruso would certainly talk to the mayor, or at least inform him of such a decision,” Goodman told the publication.
Giuliani is still embroiled in legal proceedings as he tries to do that make their way from paying some $150 million in damages he owes to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a pair of 2020 poll watchers in Georgia whom he repeatedly defamed while exposing Trump’s election conspiracy in Georgia.
Last week, the former federal prosecutor tried a new legal defense, arguing in a Manhattan courthouse that he couldn’t possibly turn over his assets to Freeman and Moss because he simply didn’t know where they were. Some of those assets include his own Manhattan penthousea famous real estate object, as well as his Mercedes convertible, which he was seen driving in Florida on Election Day.
In response, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman said the idea that neither Giuliani nor anyone else in the world has knowledge of the location of his assets was “farcal.” Reuters.
Amazingly, the $148 million debt is just the tip of the iceberg for Giuliani’s legal troubles. Over the past year, Trump’s former lawyer has unsuccessfully filed for bankruptcy. lost his accountant about his insurmountable debts, begged Trump for help paying his seven-figure legal fees (he declined), had his WABC radio show cancelled for spouting 2020 election lies, and miserably started his own lies coffee brand‘Rudy Coffee’, in an attempt to bring in some extra money. He ultimately lost his bankruptcy case due to his bizarre spending habits, with the presiding New York judge labeling the former mayor as a “unruly debtor.”
Giuliani is also under fire for one court case from his former legal representation, which accused him of failing to pay his bill and reportedly paid out only $214,000 of nearly $1.6 million in legal fees. Giuliani, meanwhile, claimed so frozen by his favorite client, Trump, to the tune of millions of dollars.
But wait, there’s more: The MAGA accomplice is also one of 19 co-defendants in Georgia’s election interference case and was named in an April Indictment against Arizona to indict another slew of Republican officials and Trump allies for their alleged involvement in a scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In October, an Arizona judge torched a legal filing Giuliani filed in the case. pronunciation that the ex-Trump aide had “not a shred” of evidence to question the legitimacy of a grand jury assigned to his trial.
But if the ex-Trump attorney can continue his legal troubles long enough to secure a pardon from Trump during the MAGA leader’s upcoming second administration, he will maybe not have to pay at all.
