Rudy Giuliani reveals prosecutors are probing ‘other crimes that maybe I committed’ and claims lawyers have spent $20 million trying to tear him down

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has denounced federal prosecutors for their involvement in what he called a fishing expedition — beating him and Donald Trump with discovery requests in hopes of finding an indictment that stands.

The allegation, aired in an interview on Sunday, comes days later from the former attorney who pleaded not guilty to undermining Georgia’s 2020 election, and after a federal judge ordered him to lose in a libel suit, initiated by two pollsters.

Aside from looking the already embattled Republican in the eye, the verdict also slapped him with a bill of $132,000 for legal fees, and was automatically imposed after he failed to provide evidence in the case about to carry.

Moreover, the statement was made on January 6 by a familiar face. Judge Beryl Howell, who wrote in her 57-page ruling that Giuliani, 79, only provided “a piece of the financial documents (which) had to be produced.”

His excuses for withholding them, Howell wrote at the time, made no sense, though Giuliani countered those claims on Sunday with his own story, insisting that the FBI has already spent $20 million trying to take him down.

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“So it’s a procedural penalty,” he said, using an unofficial legal term to describe the supposed strategy of filing federal discovery requests to obtain potentially incriminating evidence they wouldn’t otherwise get.

He further theorized how the federal government’s affairs — which are separate from the allegations he, Trump and 17 others face in Georgia for allegedly rigging the election — are “funded by outside sources.”

“For example,” he said, bringing up the wrapped suit in which two Fulton pollsters sued Giuliani for accusing them of ballot rigging, “this Atlanta case, which is a defamation case, represents one of the largest law firms in the United States. Wall Street. them.’

“They don’t do libel cases,” he continued, despite admitting days ago that he had made false statements about the workers.

He added, “They probably paid between $15 and $20 million in legal bills. And there are eight to ten people working on the case.’

“So they are filing a discovery request, without any exaggeration, of this large amount,” he said, making a motion to suggest that a gargantuan amount of evidence had been demanded of him.

“Maybe 10 percent of that is relevant to the case,” he claimed. “The other percent they’re trying to uncover are the crimes I may have committed…Crimes Donald Trump may have committed.”

The Republican, famous for his war against organized crime and the New York mafia in the 1990s, seemed to focus on any other possible cases and boldly added, “Good luck!”

Meanwhile, Giuliani faces 13 felony counts, including racketeering, for allegedly pressuring officials to interfere in the election before his friend Trump lost to Joe Biden.

faced the humiliation of having his mug shot taken after he was booked into Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail earlier this month.

In the footage released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, Giuliani can be seen looking straight ahead, with a slight frown, as industrial lighting shines on his forehead and a sheriff’s decal on his right.

His mugshot came a day before the man he once represented, former President Donald Trump, turned himself in for processing.

Trump himself lamented his former lawyer’s arrest online, saying the man charged with false statements, conspiracy and soliciting officials to violate their oaths was fighting for “election integrity.”

“The greatest mayor in New York City history has just been ARRESTED in Atlanta, Georgia, for fighting for election integrity. THE ELECTION WAS SET UP AND STORED. How sad for our country. MAGA!’ Trump wrote.

It was a stunning and symbolic turn of events for the mob boss’s former prosecutor, who now has to fend off allegations of election fraud.

Giuliani famously used the RICO law to take down the Mafia in the 1980s, during his time as a Manhattan prosecutor. Now he is accused of violating the RICO racketeering law in an attempt to improve the 2020 election results.

He struck a defiant tone during a frenetic battle of Trump supporters, protesters and press following his release on $150,000 bail.

When asked by reporters after he left prison if he regrets attaching his name to former President Trump, Giuliani chuckled and replied, “I am very honored to be involved in this case because this case is a fight for our way of life.’

“This indictment is a travesty,” he continued, calling it “an attack on the American people.”

He called himself the “most prolific prosecutor in American history” and the most effective mayor “ever.”

“If they can do this to me, they can do this to you,” he said defiantly during the scrum in which he was physically pushed around.

A protester held up a sign calling Giuliani a “clown” as he hurried to his vehicle.

Giuliani, who faces a total of 13 charges, last week joined a stream of eight other Trump allies who reported themselves to Georgia jail before the Friday afternoon deadline.

However, unlike his 18 co-defendants, he was struck down by the federal lawsuit brought by Fulton County pollsters Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, which led him to take the blame by falsely accusing them of correcting the election results.

Despite this, the former mayor insisted on Sunday that he “admitted nothing” and that he “did not dispute” the allegations against him.

“We want to move on to the legal aspects of the business,” he noted. “I’m not stupid enough to think I’ll get a fair trial before (Judge Beryl) and the District of Columbia.”

“I don’t have to be a lawyer to think that,” he snapped.