Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was paid $500,000 in 2018 for legal consulting work he completed for Lev Parnas, one of his associates who was arrested on campaign finance charges last week, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday.
Giuliani confirmed to Reuters that Parnas’ company, Fraud Guarantee, approached his law firm, Dewey, Cheatham & Howe…
This sounds like a Marx Bros. movie…
‘‘Giuliani confirmed to Reuters that Parnas’ company, Fraud Guarantee’’
More like Guaranteed Fraud.
Bet this gets more and more interesting as they dig further and further.
RudyColludy is screwed.
(BTW, although it’s not in the caption, isn’t the guy on very left in the photo above the article one of the two bozos who were caught at Dulles trying to scarper?? Or is it some poor guy who has the misfortune to have a passing resemblance…?)
Imagine paying half a million dollars for legal consulting work from a guy who can’t resist going on cable news and telling God and everybody all sorts of shit about the cases he’s working on, including his own.
How many copies of SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, ADMIT NOTHING, SHUT UP can I get printed at Kinko’s for half a million dollars? I’m willing to splurge for the yuuuge, classy fake gold leaf treatment.
$500K would buy a lot a “legal advice.” Even if Rudy charges $1,000 an hour, that’s 500 hours. I’d love to see the work product generated by this work on “regulatory matters.”
Funny, was just playing with a calculator and looking at different rates… Yup, no matter how you skew this one, that’s a lot of hours on this.
Wonder how that matches up with Rudy’s other clients and what he billed… Are we going to see him taken down for double-billing?
Wut? I thought Giuliani only offered illegal advice!
And the article says Rudy was approached in October 2018, which means all those fees were for work done in less than 3 months.
[sniffing the air for rotting debris]
That’s what I thought when I saw it.
Did Grenade Giuliani violate FARA? What about the Hatch Act?
ICYMI:
The are 281 lobbyist working in the Trump/Thugs-R-Us regime!
OT — In these days of strife, some things simply must be celebrated.
A short animated film stars Serkis as a talking anus, highlighting the damaging impact of our addiction to wet wipes and calling for the public to “be a good a**hole” and dispose of them responsibly.
“All across the news we are seeing people take a stand to look after our planet,” says Serkis. “It’s only one tiny change we can all make which goes a long way in protecting our oceans.
“I didn’t think I’d ever feel so passionate to take on the role of a talking asshole.”
His portrayal of Trump should be a piece of cake.
This was a fixed fee retainer, not an hourly billing client. The advice was simple: We are results oriented. Don’t worry about legalities. Trump and I are BFFs, he owns Barr, and we have a mutually beneficial fee splitting arrangement.
Who’s $500K was it? How do you spell Firtash?
“Co-conspirator.”
Given that we’re talking about money, my conspiratorial side says some of that half-mil went to Somebody-Else-Who’s-Obsessed-With-Money.
Well, the press is talking about Rudy 24/7 and less about Trump. So there’s that. Rudy may well be just a richly compensated red herring.
“Extraditee” (it’s in process)
Different thug. Hard to tell them apart without a slide show.
Same “hair stylist”, though, I think. 