Giuliani reportedly begged Trump for money for legal fees at Mar-a-Lago; former president said no

Giuliani reportedly begged Trump for money for legal fees at Mar-a-Lago; former president said no

Rudy Giuliani reportedly journeyed to Mar-a-Lago to beg former President Donald Trump to pay his ballooning legal fees as the ex-New York City mayor faces an increasingly grim financial picture.

Trump refused to give Giuliani a blank check at the meeting in April and has apparently authorized only some payments to his ex-lawyer’s many creditors, CNN reported Thursday.

A pro-Trump super PAC paid about $350,000 to cover some of the many debts incurred by Giuliani.

But Giuliani, 79, still faces mounting debts of up to $1 million stemming from spewing lies about supposed election fraud in an effort seeking to overturn the 2020 election at the behest of Trump, the news network reports.

Giuliani faces a defamation suit filed against him by Atlanta election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in which he has admitted lying about the women.

Things went from bad to worse Monday when Giuliani was indicted by the Fulton County district attorney as one of Trump’s 18 alleged co-conspirators in a sprawling racketeering case in Georgia.

Like others — including Trump — Giuliani faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Unlike the other Trump cases, Georgia law does not allow any pardons until a prisoner has served five years behind bars.

He also could have a difficult time staying free while awaiting trial. Under Georgia law, a judge would have to agree that there is virtually no chance that he might intimidate witnesses in the case, a tough call to make since Giuliani has admitted to lying publicly about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

With a mountain of debt, Giuliani apparently cannot afford to pay his legal fees let alone fork over the kind of hefty retainer such a legal eagle would command.

In a possible sign of his financial duress, Giuliani recently listed his sprawling upper East Side apartment for sale. He is asking for a cool $6.5 million for the 2,500-square foot four-bedroom pad, which he bought in 2002.

Giuliani may have hoped Trump would come to his financial rescue, especially since the former president is footing the legal bills for many other associates who have been roped into his legal drama. But their relationship has apparently frayed over the years.

Some legal analysts question if Giuliani’s cooperation has much value to prosecutors they have already uncovered most of the malfeasance he could testify about.

Special counsel Jack Smith allowed Giuliani to speak to prosecutors in a so-called proffer session in which he claimed to have revealed everything he knew about the effort to keep Trump in power.

Smith went ahead and included Giuliani as one of six unindicted co-conspirators in that case. Most legal analysts believe all or most of those six will eventually be charged separately from Trump.

In Georgia, Giuliani was hit with 13 counts of violating the state’s racketeering law, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiracy to commit forgery, and making false statements.

The RICO count is particularly humiliating because Giuliani used the federal statute to imprison mobsters while burnishing his reputation as a crime-fighting hero prosecutor.

He derides the charges as an “affront to American democracy” and vows to beat the rap.

Giuliani also faces a defamation suit filed by voting machine-maker Smartmatic over outlandish claims about supposed vote rigging for Biden.

He also faces an unrelated lurid sexual harassment suit filed by former consultant Noelle Dunphy, who claims the ex-mayor insisted she perform oral sex on him while he spoke on the phone with Trump, saying the practice made him “feel like Bill Clinton.” He says they were dating.

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