IRS puts lien on Rudy Giuliani's Palm Beach home over unpaid taxes: report

Former President Donald Trump's close associate Rudy Giuliani has had a lien placed on his home by the Internal Revenue Service over $550,000 in unpaid taxes, reported The Daily Mail on Thursday.

"The IRS placed a lien on Giuliani's penthouse in Palm Beach, just three miles north of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence," reported Jose Lambiet, noting that this allows the agency to seize some of the profits on any sale of the property.

"Records show Giuliani bought the three-bedroom, 2,000-sqft condo with then-wife Judith Nathan for $1.4million cash in February 2010," the report continued. "Nathan signed the condo over to Rudy after their 2019 divorce, according to records. Neither Giuliani nor his regular spokesman Ted Goodman immediately responded to a request for comment."

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All of this comes amid reports that Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, is in financial dire straits, as legal fees and lawsuits pile up against him. Giuliani's problems are further compounded as the attorney representing him in the Georgia election racketeering case has dropped him as a client.

Giuliani allegedly played a key role in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, advising the former president through it while taking ill-fated legal actions to try to block election certifications.

According to a report this week, federal prosecutors are examining Giuliani's alleged drinking habits, as well as whether Trump knew that his then-lawyer was intoxicated at the time he was giving certain advice, which could undermine Trump's ability to claim that he was acting on the advice of counsel.