Rudy Giuliani's role in messing everything up for Trump re: Ukraine

[cow451]

I kinda like the idea of Rudy as a meth cook.

Beat me to it.!!

 

[cow451]

Mobsters often have nicknames. ”Hand Grenade Rudy” sounds good to me.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Federal investigation of Rudy Giuliani includes counterintelligence probe

For months, investigators looking into Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine have dug into everything from possible financial entanglements with alleged corrupt Ukrainian figures to counterintelligence concerns raised by some of those business ties, according to people briefed on the matter.

The counterintelligence part of the investigation indicates that FBI and criminal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking at a broader set of issues related to Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, than has been previously reported.

Some of the FBI agents and prosecutors handling the case come from the same public corruption unit that targeted Michael Cohen, the President's former personal lawyer, and it's clear the investigation could result in more charges.

The investigators in the Southern District of New York appear to have largely operated separately from what Trump's appointees at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, have pursued in recent months, and the investigation dates back far longer than what's been previously reported.

 

[essentialsaltes]

FBI arrests Fourth Man at JFK Airport in Probe of Rudy Giuliani Associates

For once, it's not someone trying to flee the country.

"David Correia was arrested after flying Wednesday to JFK Airport in New York City to turn himself in."

 

[KCfromNC]

FBI arrests Fourth Man at JFK Airport in Probe of Rudy Giuliani Associates

For once, it's not someone trying to flee the country.

"David Correia was arrested after flying Wednesday to JFK Airport in New York City to turn himself in."

Perhaps he negotiated a deal with prosecutors?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Celeb news.

A March 2014 photograph showing Donald Trump with a recently indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani appears to have been taken at a fashion show hosted by Ivanka Trump at the Trump National Doral in Florida, a CNN KFile review reveals.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Career diplomat George Kent told congressional investigators in his closed-door testimony this week that Rudy Giuliani asked the State Department and the White House to grant a visa to the former Ukrainian official who Joe Biden had pushed to have removed when he was vice president, according to four people familiar with Kent's testimony.

Kent told congressional investigators the State Department had objected to the request, and State did not grant the visa. Giuliani, Kent said, then appealed to the White House to have State reverse its decision. Shokin's visa was never granted, although Giuliani eventually spoke with Shokin over Skype.

The incident reveals how Giuliani's work to dig up dirt on Democrats went much further than previously understood -- and included an attempt to directly influence the actions of the federal government.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Rudy Giuliani met with top Justice Department officials recently on behalf of a client in a foreign bribery case that the Trump attorney called “very, very sensitive,” The New York Times reports. The meeting was reportedly held just days before Giuliani himself came under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for possible lobbying violations. Giuliani declined to reveal details of the meeting but said it had nothing to do with his own legal issues or those of President Trump, according to the Times. “I really try very hard to be super-ethical and always legal,” Giuliani was quoted as saying about the meeting. “But...

 

[essentialsaltes]

A Justice spokesman issued an unusual statement seeking to remove the department further from Giuliani, who has drawn scrutiny recently for his business activities in Ukraine and elsewhere seeming to bank on his close ties to President Donald Trump.

"When Mr. Benczkowski and fraud section lawyers met with Mr. Giuliani, they were not aware of any investigation of Mr. Giuliani's associates in the Southern District of New York and would not have met with him had they know[n]," Peter Carr, a department spokesman, told The New York Times on Sunday, which first reported the meeting.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Celeb news.

More celeb news.

Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian American businessman accused of funneling foreign money into U.S. elections, attended a string of events with Ron DeSantis in the closing moments of the Republican candidate’s 2018 campaign for governor in Florida.

Helen Aguirre Ferré, a spokesperson for DeSantis, said that while pictures show Parnas at two campaign events that day, Giuliani and the DeSantis campaign each had their own planes and Parnas used the Giuliani plane.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Federal judge orders State Department to release Ukraine records within 30 days

A federal judge granted an emergency motion from the watchdog group American Oversight today seeking the release of Ukraine-related records from the State Department, including communications between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

 

[SimplyMe]

Federal judge orders State Department to release Ukraine records within 30 days

A federal judge granted an emergency motion from the watchdog group American Oversight today seeking the release of Ukraine-related records from the State Department, including communications between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

It will be interesting to see how quickly the Supreme Court rules on this, as we can be sure the Trump Administration will want to appeal this to the Supreme Court.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A defense attorney for Lev Parnas, one of the two Soviet-born associates of Rudy Giuliani indicted on campaign finance charges this month, argued in a Manhattan court Wednesday that the White House could potentially invoke executive privilege over some of the evidence gathered by prosecutors, the New York Times reports.

 

[Paulos23]

A defense attorney for Lev Parnas, one of the two Soviet-born associates of Rudy Giuliani indicted on campaign finance charges this month, argued in a Manhattan court Wednesday that the White House could potentially invoke executive privilege over some of the evidence gathered by prosecutors, the New York Times reports.

Which, since it is part of a crime, will be released anyway after a court order.

 

[SimplyMe]

A defense attorney for Lev Parnas, one of the two Soviet-born associates of Rudy Giuliani indicted on campaign finance charges this month, argued in a Manhattan court Wednesday that the White House could potentially invoke executive privilege over some of the evidence gathered by prosecutors, the New York Times reports.

Which, since it is part of a crime, will be released anyway after a court order.

What occurred to me, reading that, is that basically Lev's lawyers are implicating the White House in his crimes, essentially making the President a co-conspirator. Granted, it could be (and likely is) a bluff by the lawyers but, if the evidence of the crimes he committed is information that can't be released because of "executive privilege" (and remember, Trump is the "executive" that the privilege belongs to) then that would make the President an alleged co-conspirator of a crime.

 

[Kentonio]

..then that would make the President an alleged co-conspirator of a crime.

Again.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Giuliani butt dialed a reporter. Twice.

Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens

 

[essentialsaltes]

Giuliani butt dialed a reporter. Twice.

Gonna shamelessly steal a friend's joke...

Giuliani's butt is the whistleblower.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Gonna shamelessly steal a friend's joke...

Giuliani's butt is the whistleblower.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Oh man, the hits just keep on coming:

Giuliani needed Apple genius help to unlock his iPhone after being named Trump cybersecurity adviser