Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was recorded demanding sex from an employee, a new lawsuit claims.
In a complaint filed in New York state court on Monday, attorneys for Noelle Dunphy allege Giuliani offered her employment for a salary of $1 million a year in 2019. At the time, Giuliani was serving as an attorney for then-President Donald Trump. Several of Giuliani's businesses are also named as defendants in the suit.
The lawsuit says Giuliani told Dunphy that her employment must remain secret because he was going through an acrimonious divorce.
"Unfortunately, Giuliani's seemingly generous offers were a sham motivated by his secret desire to pursue a sexual relationship with Ms. Dunphy—in total disregard for the restraints that should have protected her as his employee and client," attorneys for Dunphy state. "He made clear that satisfying his sexual demands—which came virtually anytime, anywhere—was an absolute requirement of her employment and of his legal representation."
Giuliani allegedly drank alcohol and "took Viagra constantly," the document states.
The lawsuit claims that some of Giuliani's demands for sex were captured on recordings. Other allegations involved Giuliani conspiring with Trump to sell pardons for $2 million each.
Dunphy is seeking at least $10 million in damages.
Former FBI general counsel and special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said Monday he thinks the indictment of Donald Trump will come this week because the Department of Justice is being pressured to move things forward.
The prediction was part of a conversation with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace about the possible venue for trial if Trump is indicted — Florida or Washington, D.C.
Secrets and Laws, an account that purports to be run by a former CIA lawyer, mentioned that there has been little conversation about the potential venue. Brandon Van Grack, a former Justice Department national security official, is hoping for Washington, while national security analyst Marcy Wheeler expects Florida will be the location. Another commentator, LegalNerd, walked through the potential charges and what the law says about the venue.
Weissmann agreed that the open issue is where charges would be brought and who would be charged alongside Trump.
"Those charges may be ones that can only be brought in a different jurisdiction because there are constitutional rules about where charges can be brought," he explained.
"I should say, ...it is conceivable that Donald Trump would be charged in Florida and not D.C. I don't think that will be the case. But I do think the one thing I'm pretty confident of is that we are going to see charges with respect to the classified documents case, and it seems by all accounts it's going to be this week because I think that DOJ will feel that internal pressure to move this along."
He later said in the Manhattan case with D.A. Alvin Bragg, Trump's lawyers came in to speak before the grand jury before the indictment, and he explained at that time it was an indicator that they were at the end of the probe.
Trump's lawyers met with the DOJ on Monday,
See the discussion below or at the link here.
Indictment will be this week because the 'DOJ is feeling pressure to move this along': Legal expert youtu.be
An employee at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club flooded a room containing the facility's security log computers while draining the pool last October, – and prosecutors consider it suspicious, reported CNN on Monday.
"While it’s unclear if the room was intentionally flooded or if it happened by mistake, the incident occurred amid a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious," reported Katelyn Polantz, Jeremy Herb, and Kaitlan Collins. "At least one witness has been asked by prosecutors about the flooded server room as part of the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to one of the sources."
According to the report, witnesses have testified that the flood did not damage the computer equipment. However, if the flood was part of a deliberate attempt to damage the equipment, it could be evidence in a potential obstruction case.
"The incident, which has not been previously reported, came roughly two months after the FBI retrieved hundreds of classified documents from the Florida residence and as prosecutors obtained surveillance footage to track how White House records were moved around the resort," said the report. "Prosecutors have been examining any effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation after Trump received a subpoena in May 2022 for classified documents."
Trump is being investigated for storing classified documents at the club after he left the White House.
Other key witnesses involved in the investigation include Walt Nauta, a military valet Trump took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, as well as a maintenance worker at the facility who helped Nauta move boxes of documents containing classified records ahead of federal agents searching the premises.
The investigation is wrapping up with charging decisions imminent, according to recent reports.
Trump has claimed that he did nothing wrong and has an unlimited right to declassify and take home documents as needed, even without going through any proper channels or telling anyone about it. However, recently obtained video evidence shows Trump telling guests at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey that he couldn't share the details of a classified document detailing a possible attack on Iran, suggesting Trump in fact knew he doesn't have blanket declassification authority.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Monday that a document he says alleges President Joe Biden was involved in a bribery scheme includes evidence of money laundering , The New York Post reports.
The Kentucky Republican and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) spoke on Monday after being briefed and allowed to view the document, though Comer said he planned to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for not submitting a physical copy of the document to his panel.
Comer claims the document alleges that while serving as vice president, Biden and a foreign national were involved in a $5 million criminal scheme.
“The claims made in the document are consistent with what we found and disclosed to you all in Romania. It suggests a pattern of bribery where payments would be made through shell accounts and multiple banks,” Comer told reporters.
“There’s a term for that, it’s called money laundering … So we feel that this accusation is consistent with a pattern that we’re seeing, frankly, in other countries.” He said the FBI was also investigating what was in the document.
Raskin initially said it was his understanding the document was not under FBI investigation but later told reporters “I must have missed that because I’ve not heard that this is part of any ongoing investigation.”
Comer vouched for the source behind the allegations against Biden.
“The confidential human source who provided information about then Vice President Biden being involved in a criminal bribery scheme is a trusted, highly credible informant who has been used by the FBI for over 10 years and has been paid over six figures,” Comer said.
“These are facts and no amount of spin and, frankly, lies from the White House or congressional Democrats can change this information. At the briefing, the FBI again refused to hand over the unclassified record to the custody of the House Oversight Committee. And we will now initiate contempt of Congress hearings this Thursday.”
Comer said the FBI investigation is ongoing and he believes it’s being conducted in Delaware, where US Attorney David Weiss is investigating the president’s son Hunter Biden over allegations of tax fraud and illegal foreign lobbying, among other crimes.
“Given the severity and complexity of the allegations contained within this record, Congress must investigate further,” Comer said. “Americans have lost trust in the FBI his ability to enforce the law impartially, and demand answers, transparency and accountability. The investigation is not dead. This is only the beginning.”
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