Former lawyer for Donald Trump and former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, once feared for using RICO laws to take down the mob, was charged under the same Georgia statutes for his alleged effort to overturn the election results..
Giuliani had the opportunity to attend New York University School of Law and served in the highest positions in the Department of Justice.
In addition, he has always been a complex man, at times, of questionable actions. He ran for mayor on a law and order platform, but when then-police commissioner Bill Bratton was on the cover of Time magazine for his crime-fighting success, Giuliani fired him.
Nearly two decades later he became Trump’s personal attorney and now they have been indicted along with him.
“The age of fear has had a long enough reign,” Giuliani said on January 1, 1994, one of the most momentous days of his life.
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani became the 107th mayor of New York City. He was a notorious crime fighter who had flogged the mob syndicate in New York and used the racketeering racketeering statute, RICO, to do so.
“I know crimes. I can smell them. You don’t have to smell this one. I can show it to you in 18 different ways,” said the former mayor on November 19, 2020.
Finally, led to a 90-minute free press conference that left Giuliani’s face smeared with what appeared to be traces of dyed sweat as he made unsubstantiated claims of alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“It’s shameful what happened,” Giuliani said at the time.
Those statements made him the so-called “mayor of the United States”Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his post-9/11 leadership, on a defendant in a voter fraud case.
So prosecutors have used their favorite crime-fighting tool, RICO extortion statutes, against himreported CBSNews.
He faces charges of promoting unsubstantiated accusations of widespread voter fraud in Georgia and participating in a scheme to have 16 of the state’s Republicans serve with fake voters.
In this sense, prosecutors argue that went from leader to liar.
“It is certainly a fall from grace for the former mayor,” said political strategist Basil Smikle.
smilewho teaches at a public policy institute at Hunter College, says that Giuliani’s current situation may be linked to his lust for power.
At some point he ran for president, unsuccessfully, but By allying himself with Trump, he “put himself in a position where he was getting closer and closer to the level of power that he wanted and seemed to be corrupting it in such a way that it got out of hand.”Smike explained.
For his part, strategist O’Brien Murray, who worked on Giuliani’s mayoral campaign, says the New Yorker’s days in the political spotlight are far from over. Due to the Trump team’s insistence that the charges are part of a political witch hunt, he sees the lawyer participating in the Republican mogul’s presidential campaign.
“He’s going to be an excellent speaker, motivating the primary troops with this on his head. In fact, he will be a benefit in that field,” Murray said.
The New York politician called the accusation “the next chapter in a book of lies.”
The day after he was indicted, Giuliani scoffed at the idea that he was part of a RICO or organized crime ring.
“There’s this whole RICO thing going on that we didn’t even know about. I must tell you that it will be interesting when we all get together. I don’t know most of these people.”he mentioned.
Still, there are those who question whether a former prosecutor who knows the criminal justice system like he does could cut a deal to save himself.
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