Facing Investigation, Giuliani Needed a Lawyer, but Firms Stayed Away
Source: New York Times
President Trumps personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said on Wednesday that he had assembled a legal team to represent him in the criminal investigation into his activities related to Ukraine, an announcement that came after weeks of sputtered attempts to find a lawyer willing to take him on as a client.
Mr. Giuliani said on Twitter that he would be represented by three lawyers, including his longtime friend, Robert J. Costello. The hires show how serious Mr. Giuliani is treating the inquiry by federal prosectors in Manhattan, who are investigating whether he violated lobbying laws in his efforts to dig up damaging information about Mr. Trumps rivals.The evidence, when revealed fully, will show that this present farce is as much a frame-up and hoax as Russian collusion, maybe worse, and will prove the President is innocent, Mr. Giuliani said on Twitter, just before naming his new lawyers.
The hires came after a weekslong search to find a lawyer who would represent Mr. Giuliani, who rose to prominence as the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, the same office that is now investigating him. He has a wide range of close associates including former prosecutors and judges who could have taken him on as a client.
But at least four prominent attorneys declined for various reasons, according to people familiar with the matter. They included Mary Jo White, who also once led the United States attorneys office for the Southern District, as well as Theodore V. Wells Jr., a trial lawyer at Paul, Weiss, according to people familiar with those discussions.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/nyregion/giuliani-trump-impeachment-lawyers.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Saul Goodman probably wouldn't take him.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)Dershowitz (sp?)
BumRushDaShow
(129,445 posts)Or maybe Geraldo. That guy has a law degree.
TomSlick
(11,109 posts)Everyone is entitled to representation. John Adams' representation of British soldiers charged after the Boston Massacre sets the standards for American lawyers.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)they generally represent scum-bag Republican criminals
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Dershowitz is trying to stay out of the Epstein mess that is still going on.
Talitha
(6,613 posts)So that's where he's been!
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Good god. There's even a Wikipedia page for "Pseudonyms of Donald Trump"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump
duforsure
(11,885 posts)trump claims others are doing against him. Again his claims are what he's doing against this country, so no wonder no one wants to take on this now knowing both Ghouliani and trump are guilty as hell, an don't pay their bills. trumps deep state being exposed, then add his son in law and many others .
Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)"The hires show how serious [sic] Mr. Giuliani is treating the inquiry...."
I guess "serious" would be acceptable here if the NYT were distinguishing between "serious Mr. Giuliani" and "clown Mr. Giuliani."