# What's Rudy Giuliani's life going to look like post shenanigans? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942 "2023-12-21T19:01:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/1 "2023-12-21T19:01:05Z")
I’m just using Rudy as an example. I’m more curious about how wealthy people in general deal with ruin. So assuming he doesn’t go to jail, what’s his life going to look like? I mean he’s several millions of dollars in debt. It’s not like he’s going to be living in a cheap one bedroom apartment. Right? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/2 "2023-12-21T19:02:34Z")
He just declared bankruptcy. [https://www.meidastouch.com/news/rudy-giuliani-files-for-bankruptcy](https://www.meidastouch.com/news/rudy-giuliani-files-for-bankruptcy) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/3 "2023-12-21T19:04:20Z")
I understand that. That’s why I’m asking the question. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/4 "2023-12-21T19:08:32Z")
WAG he’ll end up in a condo that, while below his usual standards, is still better than what most of us would own. I have to assume TPTB will still allow him to keep enough money to live. If he still has any income, I could see them letting him keep, say, 10k a month and the rest goes to his debts. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/5 "2023-12-21T19:25:15Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I mean he’s several millions of dollars in debt. It’s not like he’s going to be living in a cheap one bedroom apartment. Right? If he’s not living in a refrigerator box under a freeway overpass, it’s too good for him. From “America’s Mayor” to “Apologist for Fascism” inside of twenty years is a real slide down the **Slope of Moral Turpitude**. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/6 "2023-12-21T19:32:03Z")
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/7 "2023-12-21T19:42:53Z")
We can take away people’s money, but we can’t stop them from being rich. No, I don’t understand how that works, either. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/8 "2023-12-21T19:59:58Z")
The Shenanigans have to stop for there to be a ‘post’. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/9 "2023-12-21T20:04:05Z")
I’m hoping it involves a wardrobe of orange jumpsuits, but I think that may be somewhat wishful. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/10 "2023-12-21T20:26:40Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > rom “America’s Mayor” to “Apologist for Fascism” inside of twenty years is a real slide down the **Slope of Moral Turpitude**. Only as reported by the news. He started his public career at the bottom of that slope. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/11 "2023-12-21T20:26:55Z")
Just because he’s poor doesn’t mean he needs to act poor. But, by the time his troubles are over he’ll be taking a dirt nap. From America’s Mayor to America’s Dumbass, I hope he continues to get all the mock and humiliation he so richly earned. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/12 "2023-12-21T20:28:15Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I’m hoping it involves a wardrobe of orange jumpsuits, but I think that may be somewhat wishful. \ On the next season of _Insurrection Evolvement_…\ Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/13 "2023-12-21T20:34:44Z")
He will sponge off his rich friends. They own properties and cars that they seldom if ever use. You can’t stop people from giving the use of things like a ride or a place to crash. He can “borrow” a cell phone and keep getting new ones to use. Not agaisnt the law to feed him either. In short, nothing will be tied back to him and as long as they don’t give him cash through a traceable method he can flaunt his liefestyle freely. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/14 "2023-12-21T21:14:04Z")
Bankruptcy doesn’t remove what he owes to those poor women. But I bet he goes on a road tour with Alex Jones or something. “And for the encore, Rudy’s hair will drip!” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/15 "2023-12-21T21:29:13Z")
He’ll work for Fox as a “consultant.” Friendly courts will slash the award amount, so that the women are paid off for pennies on the dollar. Finally, he’ll marry for money to some rich widow who is still enamored with his fame. The two of them will settle together in some small mid-west town where there are plenty of MAGAts to worship at his feet. Not the future I’d prefer for him, but that is what will happen. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/16 "2023-12-22T01:32:44Z")
Rudy will have a well deserved heart attack looking face down at a New York sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/17 "2023-12-22T01:45:31Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > He’ll work for Fox as a “consultant.” Not sure about this. Rudy and friends cost Fox a bundle of money. They might not want him blabbering about conspiracies as the Fox payroll. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/18 "2023-12-22T03:21:37Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Not sure about this. Rudy and friends cost Fox a bundle of money. Good point. Well, _some_ GOP donor company will hire him as a consultant. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/19 "2023-12-22T03:24:31Z")
Wouldn’t those earnings be garnished? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942/20 "2023-12-22T03:32:26Z")
Yes, but they leave enough to “live” on, for various definitions. A person who was previously poor might get $3,000 per month to live on, while a wealthy person will get much more. At any rate, the bankruptcy court will negotiate the award way down and then GOP billionaires will give him a book deal or something to cover it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-rudy-giulianis-life-going-to-look-like-post-shenanigans/994942.md?page=2)