133 Facts About Rudolph Giuliani

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Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.

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Rudolph Giuliani previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989.

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Rudolph Giuliani led New York's controversial "civic cleanup" as its mayor from 1994 to 2001.

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Rudolph Giuliani was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2001 and was given an honorary knighthood in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

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Vying for the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nomination, Rudolph Giuliani was an early frontrunner yet did poorly in the primary election; he later withdrew and endorsed the party's subsequent nominee, John McCain.

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Rudolph Giuliani joined President Donald Trump's personal legal team in April 2018.

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In late 2019, Rudolph Giuliani was reportedly under federal investigation for violating lobbying laws, and possibly several other charges, as a central figure in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, which resulted in Trump's first impeachment.

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Rudolph Giuliani was born in 1944 in the East Flatbush section during the time it was an Italian-American enclave in New York City's borough of Brooklyn, the only child of working-class parents Helen and Harold Angelo Rudolph Giuliani, both children of Italian immigrants.

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Rudolph Giuliani is of Tuscan descent on his father's side, as his paternal grandparents were born in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy.

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When Rudolph Giuliani was seven years old in 1951, his family moved from Brooklyn to Garden City South, where he attended the local Catholic school, St Anne's.

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Rudolph Giuliani attended Manhattan College in Riverdale, Bronx, where he majored in political science with a minor in philosophy and considered becoming a priest.

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Rudolph Giuliani was elected president of his class in his sophomore year, but was not re-elected in his junior year.

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Rudolph Giuliani joined the Phi Rho Pi college forensic fraternity and honor society.

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Rudolph Giuliani volunteered for Robert F Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968.

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Rudolph Giuliani worked as a Democratic Party committeeman on Long Island in the mid-1960s and voted for George McGovern for president in 1972.

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Rudolph Giuliani did not serve in the military during the Vietnam War.

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Rudolph Giuliani's conscription was deferred while he was enrolled at Manhattan College and NYU Law.

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In 1970, Rudolph Giuliani was reclassified 1-A but received a high 308 draft lottery number and was not called up for service.

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Rudolph Giuliani switched his party registration from Democratic to Independent in 1975.

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From 1977 to 1981, during the Carter administration, Rudolph Giuliani practiced law at the Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler law firm, as chief of staff to his former boss, Ace Tyler.

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In 1981, Rudolph Giuliani was named associate attorney general in the Reagan administration, the third-highest position in the Department of Justice.

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In defense of the government's position, Rudolph Giuliani testified that "political repression, at least in general, does not exist" under President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier's regime.

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In 1983, Giuliani was appointed to be U S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which was technically a demotion but was sought by Giuliani because of his desire to personally litigate cases and because the SDNY is considered the highest-profile United States Attorney's Office in the country and as such is often used by those who have held the position as a springboard for running for public office.

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Rudolph Giuliani focused on prosecuting drug dealers, organized crime, and corruption in government.

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Rudolph Giuliani's critics said that he arranged for people to be arrested but then dropped charges for lack of evidence on high-profile cases rather than going to trial.

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Rudolph Giuliani had his agents arrest Tim Tabor, a young arbitrageur and former colleague of Wigton, so late that he had to stay overnight in jail before posting bond.

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In 1989, Rudolph Giuliani charged Milken under the RICO Act with 98 counts of racketeering and fraud.

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In June 2021 Rudolph Giuliani had his license to practice law suspended in the state of New York, pending an investigation related to the disputed 2020 presidential election.

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Rudolph Giuliani garnered criticism until he left office for his handling of cases and was accused of prosecuting cases to further his political ambitions.

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Rudolph Giuliani first ran for New York City mayor in 1989, when he attempted to unseat three-term incumbent Ed Koch.

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Rudolph Giuliani won the September 1989 Republican Party primary election against business magnate Ronald Lauder in a campaign marked by claims that Giuliani was not a true Republican after an acrimonious debate between the two men.

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Rudolph Giuliani pointed out that Dinkins had not filed a tax return for many years and several other ethical missteps, in particular a stock transfer to his son.

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The closeness of the race was particularly noteworthy, considering the small percentage of New York City residents who are registered Republicans, and it resulted in Rudolph Giuliani being the presumptive nominee for a rematch with Dinkins at the next election.

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Once again, Rudolph Giuliani ran on the Liberal Party line but not the Conservative Party line, which ran activist George Marlin.

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The year prior to the election, Rudolph Giuliani was a key speaker at a Patrolmen's Benevolent Association rally opposing Dinkins, in which Rudolph Giuliani blamed the police department's low morale on Dinkins' leadership.

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Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani never debated during the campaign, because they were never able to agree on how to approach a debate.

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Dinkins was endorsed by The New York Times and Newsday, while Rudolph Giuliani was endorsed by the New York Post and, in a key switch from 1989, the Daily News.

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Rudolph Giuliani went to visit the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, seeking his blessing and endorsement.

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On election day, Rudolph Giuliani's campaign hired off-duty cops, firefighters, and corrections officers to monitor polling places in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and The Bronx for cases of voter fraud.

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Rudolph Giuliani became the first Republican elected mayor of New York City since John Lindsay in 1965.

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Similar to the election four years prior, Rudolph Giuliani performed particularly well in the white ethnic neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.

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Rudolph Giuliani saw especially high returns in the borough of Staten Island, as a referendum to consider allowing the borough to secede from New York City was on the ballot.

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Rudolph Giuliani ran an aggressive campaign, parlaying his image as a tough leader who had cleaned up the city.

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Rudolph Giuliani's popularity was at its highest point to date, with a late October 1997 Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll showing him as having a 68 percent approval rating; 70 percent of New Yorkers were satisfied with life in the city and 64 percent said things were better in the city compared to four years previously.

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Rudolph Giuliani served as mayor of New York City from 1994 through 2001.

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Rudolph Giuliani reportedly forced Bratton out after two years, in what was seen as a battle of two large egos in which Rudolph Giuliani was not tolerant of Bratton's celebrity.

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Rudolph Giuliani's term saw allegations of civil rights abuses and other police misconduct under other commissioners after Bratton's departure.

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Rudolph Giuliani supported the New York City Police Department, by releasing, for example, what he called Dorismond's "extensive criminal record" to the public, including a sealed juvenile file.

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Rudolph Giuliani administration advocated the privatization of the city's public schools, which he called "dysfunctional", and the reduction of state funding for them.

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Rudolph Giuliani advocated a voucher-based system to promote private schooling.

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Rudolph Giuliani continued a policy of preventing city employees from contacting the Immigration and Naturalization Service about immigration violations, on the grounds that illegal aliens should be able to take actions such as sending their children to school or reporting crimes to the police without fear of deportation.

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Rudolph Giuliani induced the city's Democratic-controlled New York City Council, which had avoided the issue for years, to pass legislation providing broad protection for same-sex partners.

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In November 1998, four-term incumbent Democratic U S Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan announced his retirement and Giuliani immediately indicated an interest in running in the 2000 election for the now-open seat.

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Rudolph Giuliani's entrance led Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel and others to recruit then-First Lady Hillary Clinton to run for Moynihan's seat, hoping she might combat his star power.

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Nevertheless, the Rudolph Giuliani campaign was showing some structural weaknesses: closely identified with New York City, he had somewhat limited appeal to normally Republican voters in upstate New York.

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The New York Police Department's fatal shooting of Patrick Dorismond in March 2000 inflamed Rudolph Giuliani's already strained relations with the city's minority communities, and Clinton seized on it as a major campaign issue.

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In May 1997, Giuliani put responsibility for selecting the location on Jerome M Hauer, who had served under Giuliani from 1996 to 2000 before being appointed by him as New York City's first director of emergency management.

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Rudolph Giuliani laughed during Wallace's questions and said that Hauer recommended the World Trade Center site and that Hauer said the WTC site was the best location.

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The letter urged Rudolph Giuliani to locate the command center in Brooklyn, instead of lower Manhattan.

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Rudolph Giuliani testified to the commission, where some family members of responders who had died in the attacks appeared to protest his statements.

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Rudolph Giuliani gained international attention in the wake of the attacks and was widely hailed for his leadership role during the crisis.

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Rudolph Giuliani took control away from agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, leaving the "largely unknown" city Department of Design and Construction in charge of recovery and cleanup.

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Rudolph Giuliani's said she believed the subsequent lung disease and deaths suffered by WTC responders were a result of these actions.

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Rudolph Giuliani asked the city's Congressional delegation to limit the city's liability for Ground Zero illnesses to a total of $350million.

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Rudolph Giuliani was a speaker at the convention, and endorsed President George W Bush for re-election by recalling that immediately after the World Trade Center towers fell,.

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Similarly, in June 2006, Rudolph Giuliani started a website called Solutions America to help elect Republican candidates across the nation.

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Rudolph Giuliani subsequently said he had started thinking about running for president, and being on the panel might give it a political spin.

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Rudolph Giuliani was described by Newsweek in January 2007 as "one of the most consistent cheerleaders for the president's handling of the war in Iraq" and as of June 2007, he remained one of the few candidates for president to unequivocally support both the basis for the invasion and the execution of the war.

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Rudolph Giuliani spoke in support of the removal of the People's Mujahedin of Iran from the United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

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In November 2006, Rudolph Giuliani announced the formation of an exploratory committee toward a run for the presidency in 2008.

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Rudolph Giuliani's campaign hit a difficult stretch during the last two months of 2007, when Bernard Kerik, whom Rudolph Giuliani had recommended for the position of Secretary of Homeland Security, was indicted on 16 counts of tax fraud and other federal charges.

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The shift of the electorate's focus from national security to the state of the economy hurt Rudolph Giuliani, as did the resurgence of McCain's similarly themed campaign.

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Rudolph Giuliani continued to be one of McCain's most active surrogates during the remainder of McCain's eventually unsuccessful campaign.

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Rudolph Giuliani explored hosting a syndicated radio show, and was reported to be in talks with Westwood One about replacing Bill O'Reilly before that position went to Fred Thompson .

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Rudolph Giuliani said his political career was not necessarily over, and did not rule out a 2010 New York gubernatorial or 2012 presidential bid.

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In January 2009, Rudolph Giuliani said he would not decide on a gubernatorial run for another six to eight months, adding that he thought it would not be fair to the governor to start campaigning early while the governor tries to focus on his job.

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Rudolph Giuliani worked to retire his presidential campaign debt, but by the end of March 2009 it was still $2.

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Rudolph Giuliani said it's tough to be a moderate and succeed in GOP primaries, " Giuliani said "If it's too late for Chris Christie, it's too late for me.

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Rudolph Giuliani wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.

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Rudolph Giuliani gave a prime time speech during the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention.

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Rudolph Giuliani appeared in a Great America PAC ad entitled "Leadership".

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Rudolph Giuliani was believed to be a likely pick for secretary of state in the Trump administration.

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The status of this informal role for Rudolph Giuliani is unclear because, in November 2018, Trump created the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, headed by Christopher Krebs as director and Matthew Travis as deputy.

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In January 2017, Rudolph Giuliani said he advised President Trump in matters relating to Executive Order 13769, which barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for 90 days.

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Rudolph Giuliani has drawn scrutiny over his ties to foreign nations, regarding not registering per the Foreign Agents Registration Act .

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In mid April 2018, Giuliani joined Trump's legal team, which dealt with the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 U S elections.

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Rudolph Giuliani said his goal was to negotiate a swift end to the investigation.

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In June 2018, Rudolph Giuliani said Trump should not testify to the special counsel investigation because "our recollection keeps changing".

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Rudolph Giuliani later elaborated that his comments were a "very, very familiar lawyer's argument" to "attack the legitimacy of the special counsel investigation".

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Rudolph Giuliani privately urged Trump in 2017 to extradite Fethullah Gulen.

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In late 2019, Rudolph Giuliani represented Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, meeting with the Justice Department to ask not to bring charges against him.

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Since at least May 2019, Rudolph Giuliani has been urging Ukraine's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate the oil company Burisma, whose board of directors once included Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, and to check for irregularities in Ukraine's investigation of Paul Manafort.

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Rudolph Giuliani said such investigations would benefit his client's defense, and that his efforts had Trump's full support.

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The committee issued a subpoena to Rudolph Giuliani asking him to release documents related to the Ukraine scandal.

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The following month, Bloomberg News reported that the investigation could extend to bribery of foreign officials or conspiracy, and The Wall Street Journal reported Rudolph Giuliani was being investigated for a possible profit motive in a Ukrainian natural gas venture.

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Rudolph Giuliani has denied having any interest in a Ukrainian natural gas venture.

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In May 2019, Rudolph Giuliani described Ukraine's chief prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko as a "much more honest guy" than his predecessor, Viktor Shokin.

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Tom Bossert, a former Homeland Security Advisor in the Trump administration, described Giuliani's theory that Ukraine was involved in 2016 U S election interference as "debunked"; Giuliani responded that Bossert "doesn't know what the hell he's talking about".

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Later that day, Rudolph Giuliani acknowledged he passed the packet to Pompeo regarding the Ukraine and attacks on Yovanovich.

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Rudolph Giuliani persuaded Trump to remove Yovanovich from office in spring 2019.

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101.

Rudolph Giuliani, who asserts he has "nothing to do with" and has "never met or talked to" Firtash, promoted the statement in television appearances as purported evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens.

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Rudolph Giuliani told CNN he met with a Firtash attorney for two hours in New York City at the time he was seeking information about the Bidens.

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The New York Times reported in November 2019 that Rudolph Giuliani had directed Parnas to approach Firtash with the recommendation, with the proposition that Firtash could help provide damaging information on Biden, which Parna's attorney described was "part of any potential resolution to [Firtash's] extradition matter".

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Two days later, the Justice Department said its officials would not have met with Rudolph Giuliani had they known his associates were under investigation by the SDNY.

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In early December 2019, while the House Judiciary Committee began holding public hearings for the impeachment inquiry, Rudolph Giuliani returned to Ukraine to interview former Ukrainian officials for a documentary series seeking to discredit the impeachment proceedings.

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NBC News reported in December 2020 that SDNY investigators, which were reported in late 2019 to be investigating Rudolph Giuliani's activities, had discussed with Justice Department officials in Washington the possibility of acquiring Rudolph Giuliani's emails, which might require headquarters approval due to protection by attorney–client privilege.

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Senior political appointees nevertheless opposed the effort after the election, noting Rudolph Giuliani played a leading role in challenging the election results.

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Time reported in May 2021 it had spoken with three unidentified witnesses who said they were questioned by investigators, two of whom said they had worked with Rudolph Giuliani while cooperating with investigators; one witness said investigators were particularly interested in Rudolph Giuliani's association with Firtash.

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Rudolph Giuliani said he had signed affidavits attesting to voter fraud and election official misconduct in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

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Judge Stephanos Bibas highlighted that Rudolph Giuliani himself told the district court that the Trump campaign "doesn't plead fraud", and that this "is not a fraud case".

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Rudolph Giuliani repeated conspiracy theories that voting machines used in the election were "crooked" and called for "trial by combat".

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Rudolph Giuliani had reportedly been calling Republican lawmakers to urge them to delay the electoral vote count in order to ultimately throw the election to Trump.

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Rudolph Giuliani faced criticism for his appearance at the rally and the Capitol riot that followed it.

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Rudolph Giuliani subsequently returned to active participation in the firm following the election.

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In late 2009, Rudolph Giuliani announced that they had a security consulting contract with Rio de Janeiro, Brazil regarding the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Rudolph Giuliani faced criticism in 2012 for advising people once allied with Slobodan Milosevic who had lauded Serbian war criminals.

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Rudolph Giuliani left the firm in January 2016, by "amicable agreement", and the firm was rebranded as Bracewell LLP.

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In January 2016, Rudolph Giuliani moved to the law firm Greenberg Traurig, where he served as the global chairman for Greenberg's cybersecurity and crisis management group, as well as a senior advisor to the firm's executive chairman.

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Rudolph Giuliani argued that the anti-corruption efforts had gone too far.

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Rudolph Giuliani was reportedly revealed to be the first unmasking on the seventh season of The Masked Singer, which caused judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke to leave the set.

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Rudolph Giuliani actually turned out to be the ninth unmasking as "Jack in the Box" of Team Bad.

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Rudolph Giuliani mentioned that he partook in this show to do it for his newborn granddaughter.

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Rudolph Giuliani met local television personality Donna Hanover sometime in 1982, and they began dating when she was working in Miami.

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Rudolph Giuliani was still married to Hanover in May 1999 when he met Judith Nathan, a sales manager for a pharmaceutical company, at Club Macanudo, an Upper East Side cigar bar.

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In summer 1999, Rudolph Giuliani charged the costs for his NYPD security detail to obscure city agencies in order to keep his relationship with Nathan from public scrutiny.

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126.

Rudolph Giuliani had not informed Hanover about his plans before the press conference.

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Rudolph Giuliani moved out of Gracie Mansion by August 2001 and into an apartment with a couple he was friends with.

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128.

Rudolph Giuliani filed for divorce from Hanover in October 2000, and a public battle broke out between their representatives.

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In October 2020, following myriad joint public appearances, Rudolph Giuliani confirmed that he is in a relationship with Maria Ryan, a nurse practitioner and hospital administrator whom his ex-wife Nathan has alleged to have been his mistress for an indeterminate period during their marriage.

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Rudolph Giuliani chose a combination prostate cancer treatment consisting of four months of neoadjuvant Lupron hormonal therapy, then low dose-rate prostate brachytherapy with permanent implantation of ninety TheraSeed radioactive palladium-103 seeds in his prostate in September 2000, followed two months later by five weeks of fifteen-minute, five-days-a-week external beam radiotherapy at Mount Sinai Medical Center, with five months of adjuvant Lupron hormonal therapy.

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Rudolph Giuliani was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital the same day.

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132.

Rudolph Giuliani had met with Republican legislators in Michigan and Georgia, potentially exposing them.

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Rudolph Giuliani has declined to comment publicly on his religious practice and beliefs, although he identifies religion as an important part of his life.

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