If he’s truly going broke over his legal fees, maybe he’ll qualify for a public defender.
When I see that someone like Giuliani is grossly overpaying for something, I suspect a tax dodge. Is it a legitimate business expense, or is he somehow funneling the money back to himself while deducting it from his taxes?
Likely storing them in his bathroom - he heard somehwere that was a good place to store stuff.
My guess is that the $20,000 isn’t just for storage but for the license to an electronic discovery system.
Remember, Rudy allegedly had his own “handshake agreement” to pay a female “political consultant” a million dollars a year to make his daily liquor store runs and give him blowjobs. So, paying it forward, Trump style….
I read the other day that Trump claimed that Rudy got stiffed on legal fees because he failed to deliver on his commitments; to wit, he failed to successfully steal the election. “Failing to deliver on promises” is of course Trump’s standard lifelong excuse for stiffing everybody, although apparently it doesn’t apply to Trump himself. Ironically, now that Rudy has been charged with serious crimes for these acts, Trump also has no intention of paying Rudy’s legal fees either.
At this point, why in Ghod’s name would Rudy NOT flip on Trump?
(Answering myself: Prosecutors would probably not even offer him a deal, because he’d be a hot mess on the witness stand)
He also could be afraid of Trump, or at least afraid of the MAGA hat crowd.
It would be incredibly entertaining if Rudy decides to represent himself at trial.
Then after his inevitable conviction, he could appeal on the grounds of ineffective counsel, claiming his lawyer was drunk during the entire trial.
I wonder if Rudy’s delusional personal secretary will get anything before all the trials bleed him dry.
With his luck, his lawyer will file at a local racquetball court.
“My client pleads Not Guilty!”
“Sir, this is the food court.”
And yet, he didn’t listen!
Good guess. It’s apparently being paid to Trustpoint.One, which bills themselves as an “integrated legal services provider … [addressing] the entire litigation life cycle”. I don’t know what the buzzwords mean, except that Rudy obviously knew for quite some time that he was in deep trouble with the law. Mainly because – to put it plainly – that he knew that many of the things he was doing for the Orange Menace were flagrantly illegal.
Of course they knew everything that they were doing was totally illegal.
They were just all convinced that if they did this for Trump, he’d pardon them all before he left office.
And then he didn’t because he was mad that they failed. Trump doesn’t pay losers, or pardon them.
I have yet to see convincing evidence he pays winners, either.
I think Rudy is screwed. Even flipping now won’t help him, the prosection has everything they need to convict DJT so there’s little incentive for them to offer Rudy a deal for his testimony. So the big RICO prosecutor gets taken down on RICO charges. Sweet irony.
Were I in Rudy’s shoes, even knowing I wouldn’t get any consideration for flipping, I’d still do it just to burn Trump. If I’m drowning for someone who won’t even help me you can bet I’m going to be an albatross and drag 'em down with me.