All posts tagged "Rudy Giuliani"

FBI Director Kash Patel pledged to investigate agents who caught Russians trying to frame Democrats before 2020, a new report reveals.

According to national security writer Marcy Wheeler, an unsigned, undated letter attributed to Patel is the "centerpiece" of a propaganda push, and she flagged in a Wednesday post on her legal blog emptywheel that it was notably not written on FBI stationery.

In the letter, Patel says he "immediately disbanded" the bureau's Foreign Influence Task Force upon taking over as director, and that his team is now probing whether the unit improperly zeroed in on informants tied to the Bidens....

U.S. host cities are expected to pay millions in a shortfall caused by a bad business deal with FIFA for the upcoming World Cup games, according to reports on Tuesday.

The collective budget shortfall was estimated at $250 million for host cities that say they are not “getting any help from anyone,” The Independent reported.

“Donald Trump is aware he has become the figurehead," a source told the outlet, describing the upcoming event as “the worst deal in FIFA World Cup history.”...

Lev Parnas, a former Donald Trump associate who served time for campaign finance violations, claimed in a new Substack article that the scales are falling from the eyes of MAGA stalwarts who aren't liking what they see the president doing to the country.

The biggest dissenter thus far, according to Parnas, is Elon Musk, who has turned on Trump like a viper just days after being ushered out of the White House with a gold commemorative key in thanks for his work on the Department of Government Efficiency.

Musk eviscerated Trump's pride-and-joy -- the "big, beautiful bill" that has become the cornerstone of his second term....

A federal judge has found former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for discovery violations.

Trump-appointee Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled Monday that Giuliani failed to properly respond to requests for information in the discovery phase of his $148 million defamation judgment in favor of two Georgia election workers.

Giuliani was permitted to testify remotely from his $3.5 million Palm Beach condominium Monday. ...

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are asking the court to step in after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani continued making false claims about them in his latest podcast.

Politico legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney posted a link to a Wednesday court filing that requests Giuliani come back to court in Washington, D.C. to be delivered consequences for alleged continuing defamation.

"In his latest act of defiance of court orders and continued defamation of Plaintiffs, Defendant Rudolph W. Giuliani has clearly violated a permanent injunction—an injunction to which he consented to less than one year ago—prohibiting him from repeating his false and defamatory lies about Plaintiffs. Accordingly, the Court should hold him in contempt and enter civil contempt sanctions," the filing begins. ...

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a former attorney for Donald Trump, has been officially disbarred in Washington, D.C.

Last year, the bar discipline committee in D.C. suspended Giuliani's law license over "frivolous" and "destructive" attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of Trump.

On Thursday, the committee issued an order formally disbarring the former mayor....