174 Facts About Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2002.

Rudy 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.

Rudy Giuliani led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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

Rudy 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.

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

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

Rudy 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 Rudy Giuliani, both children of Italian immigrants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1983, Rudy Giuliani was appointed to be US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which was technically a demotion but was sought by Rudy 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.

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

Rudy Giuliani amassed a record of 4,152 convictions and 25 reversals.

Rudy 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.

Rudy 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.

Riina allegedly was suspicious of Rudy Giuliani's efforts prosecuting the American Mafia and was worried that he might have spoken with Italian anti-Mafia prosecutors and politicians, including Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who were both murdered in 1992 in separate car bombings.

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

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

Rudy Giuliani was US Attorney until January 1989, resigning as the Reagan administration ended.

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

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

Rudy 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.

The Conservative Party, which had often co-lined the Republican party candidate, withheld support from Rudy Giuliani and ran Lauder instead.

Rudy 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.

Dinkins won the endorsements of three of the four daily New York newspapers, while Rudy Giuliani won approval from the New York Post.

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 Rudy Giuliani being the presumptive nominee for a rematch with Dinkins at the next election.

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

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

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

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

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

On election day, Rudy 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.

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

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

Rudy 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.

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

Rudy 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.

Rudy Giuliani served as mayor of New York City from 1994 through 2002.

The extent to which Rudy Giuliani deserves the credit is disputed.

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

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

Rudy 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.

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

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

Rudy 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.

Rudy 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.

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

Rudy 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.

An early January 1999 poll showed Rudy Giuliani trailing Clinton by ten points.

Nevertheless, the Rudy 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.

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

The election proceeded as scheduled, and the winning candidate, the Rudy Giuliani-endorsed Republican convert Michael Bloomberg, took office on January 1,2002, per normal custom.

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.

Rudy 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.

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

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

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

Rudy Giuliani has made most of his money since leaving office.

Rudy 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.

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

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

Rudy 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,.

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

On May 24,2006, after missing all the group's meetings, including a briefing from General David Petraeus, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, Rudy Giuliani resigned from the panel, citing "previous time commitments".

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

Rudy 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.

Rudy 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.

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

On November 7,2007, Rudy Giuliani's campaign received an endorsement from evangelist, Christian Broadcasting Network founder, and past presidential candidate Pat Robertson.

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

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

On January 29,2008, Rudy Giuliani finished a distant third in the Florida result with 15percent of the vote, trailing McCain and Romney.

Rudy Giuliani's campaign ended up $3.6million in arrears, and in June 2008 Rudy Giuliani sought to retire the debt by proposing to appear at Republican fundraisers during the 2008 general election, and have part of the proceeds go towards his campaign.

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

Rudy 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.

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

In January 2009, Rudy 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.

Rudy Giuliani worked to retire his presidential campaign debt, but by the end of March 2009 it was still $2.4million in arrears, the largest such remaining amount for any of the 2008 contenders.

On October 11,2011, Rudy Giuliani announced that he was not running for president.

Rudy 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.

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

Rudy Giuliani supported Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.

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

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

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

However, on December 9,2016, Trump announced that Rudy Giuliani had removed his name from consideration for any Cabinet post.

The status of this informal role for Rudy 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.

In January 2017, Rudy 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Rudy Giuliani described and denied several supposed allegations that have never been publicly raised, regarding two earlier meetings among Trump campaign officials to set up the June 9,2016, Trump Tower meeting with Russian citizens.

In late August, Rudy Giuliani said the June 9,2016, Trump Tower "meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about Hillary Clinton".

Also according to Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal legal team is already preparing a "counter-report" to refute the potential special counsel investigation's report.

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

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

Since at least May 2019, Rudy 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.

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

Toward this end, Rudy Giuliani met with Ukrainian officials throughout 2019.

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

The New York Times reported on October 11,2019, that the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which Rudy Giuliani had once led, was investigating him for violating lobbying laws related to his activities in Ukraine.

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

Rudy Giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult for Lev Parnas's company named "Fraud Guarantee".

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

In September 2019, as reports surfaced that a whistleblower was alleging high-level misconduct related to Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani went on CNN to discuss the story.

On September 30,2019, the House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena to Rudy Giuliani asking him to release documents concerning the Ukraine scandal to Committee members by October 15,2019.

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

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

The late 2019 impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump centered around Rudy Giuliani's actions involving Ukraine.

On November 22,2019, Rudy Giuliani sent a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, informing him of at least three witnesses from Ukraine who Rudy Giuliani said had direct oral, documentary, and recorded evidence of Democratic criminal conspiracy with Ukrainians to prevent Trump's election and, after his election, to remove him from office via contrived charges.

Rudy 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.

Rudy 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.

The New York Times reported in November 2019 that Rudy 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".

The Times did not name whom the case involved, but shortly after publication of the story Rudy Giuliani told a reporter it was not Firtash.

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

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

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

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 Rudy Giuliani while cooperating with investigators; one witness said investigators were particularly interested in Rudy Giuliani's association with Firtash.

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

In doing so, Rudy Giuliani misrepresented his status with the District of Columbia Bar in his application by stating that he was a member of the bar in good standing, when in fact the District of Columbia had suspended him for nonpayment of fees.

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

On January 6,2021, Rudy Giuliani spoke at a "Save America March" rally on the Ellipse that was attended by Trump supporters protesting the election results.

Rudy Giuliani repeated conspiracy theories that voting machines used in the election were "crooked" and called for "trial by combat", which he claimed after the riot had not been a call to violence but a reference to Game of Thrones.

Rudy 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.

However, Rudy Giuliani mistakenly left the message on the voicemail of another senator, who leaked the recording to The Dispatch.

Rudy Giuliani talked about the time that was being opened up.

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

Removal from the group's membership rolls would not directly disbar Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York.

On January 29,2021, Rudy Giuliani said falsely that The Lincoln Project played a role in the organization of the Capitol riot.

Rudy Giuliani's license was suspended in Washington, DC, on July 7,2021.

On December 15,2022, after a week-long hearing, the DC Bar Disciplinary Counsel recommended Rudy Giuliani be disbarred for violating rules of professional conduct by making false election fraud claims and trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Pennsylvania.

On June 27,2022, Rudy Giuliani appeared at ShopRite, a supermarket in Staten Island, campaigning on behalf of his son Andrew, who was attempting to become the Republican nominee for governor of New York.

The Legal Aid Society, representing Gill, asserted that Rudy Giuliani had exaggerated the severity of the slap in order to garner greater amounts of attention from the media; "Our client merely patted Mr Rudy Giuliani, who sustained nothing remotely resembling physical injuries, without malice to simply get his attention, as the video footage clearly showed," the Legal Aid Society stated in a press release.

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

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

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

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

In January 2016, Rudy 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.

Rudy Giuliani resigned from the firm on May 9,2018.

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

Rudy 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.

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

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

Rudy Giuliani married Regina Peruggi, whom he had known since childhood, on October 26,1968.

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

Rudy Giuliani filed for legal separation from Peruggi on August 12,1982.

Rudy Giuliani married Hanover in a Catholic ceremony at St Monica's Church in Manhattan on April 15,1984.

Rudy 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.

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

On May 10,2000, Rudy Giuliani held a press conference to announce that he intended to separate from Hanover.

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

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

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

Rudy Giuliani married Nathan on May 24,2003, and gained a stepdaughter, Whitney.

In October 2020, following myriad joint public appearances, Rudy 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.

Rudy 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.

On December 6,2020, Trump announced that Rudy Giuliani had contracted COVID-19.

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

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

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