'Deadbeat' Rudy Giuliani has nowhere left to go but prison: reporter

Rudy Giuliani is currently spending his days in court awaiting to find out how much he will have to pay to two former poll workers in Georgia after being convicted of defaming them and things are about to go from bad to worse for the man once called "America's mayor."

According to Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, the former mayor and Donald Trump lawyer is penniless and, because he can't pay his legal bills among the many other debts he is being sued for, he won't be able to put up much of a defense when his Georgia racketeering trial begins late next year.

As Pagliery wrote, Giuliani is refusing to pay longtime friend and lawyer Robert Costello some $1.3 million "for years of research and legal representation," and, in the current Georgia case, could be on the hook for $40 million in damages.

"For Giuliani, 2023 will likely end in penniless defeat. But 2024 could be even worse—it could actually end with him in prison," the Daily Beast analyst wrote while also adding that one Giuliani creditor labeled the now-disgraced mayor a "deadbeat" in his civil suit seeking payment.

"The real danger comes in the latter part of next year," Pagliery explained. "Giuliani faces years behind bars if convicted of essentially taking part in a shakedown of the state’s election system. And yet, the clear way out already taken by others in the case—flipping and becoming a state witness to help prosecutors nail Trump—pits Giuliani against himself."

Worse still for Giuliani is the fact that the option for seeking a plea deal is off the table, as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seems fairly confident that prison sentences are expected.

Summing up, Pagliery wrote, "The Giuliani downfall has been slow but precipitous: 2021 was the ruining of his professional reputation, with New York and the District of Columbia suspending his law license for spreading lies and his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. This year exposed his financial ruin. Next year, it could be prison."

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