Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday in the Southern District of New York, less than one full week after he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-orders-rudy-giuliani-to-pay-148-million-to-election-workers-he-defamed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered to pay</a> $148 million to defamed Georgia poll workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, Moss&#8217; mother.
According to a Bloomberg News <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/rudy-giuliani-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-after-court-loss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on the filing, Giuliani — who served for some time as attorney to former President Donald Trump — claimed to have just $10 million in assets and up to $500 million in outstanding debt.
Giuliani&#8217;s bankruptcy attorneys, Heath Berger and Gary Fischoff, released a statement on Thursday saying that the Chapter 11 protections would give the former mayor the necessary time and breathing room to pursue an appeal in the Georgia case.
&#8220;The filing should be a surprise to no one. No person could have reasonably believed that Mayor Giuliani would be able to pay such a high punitive amount,&#8221; they said.
Last Friday, after Judge Beryl A. Howell of the Federal District Court in Washington determined that Giuliani had defamed Moss and Freeman in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, a Washington, D.C., jury ordered the former Trump attorney to pay out nearly $150 million:
<ul>
<li>$16,171,000 to Ruby Freeman for defamation.</li>
<li>$16,998,000 to Shaye Moss for defamation.</li>
<li>$20 million to Freeman for emotional distress.</li>
<li>$20 million to Moss for emotional distress.</li>
<li>$75 million in punitive damages to both plaintiffs.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/21/news/rudy-giuliani-files-for-bankruptcy-in-ny/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Giuliani</a> called the ruling &#8220;absurd&#8221; and promised an immediate appeal, adding, &#8220;I don’t regret a damn thing.&#8221;
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His attorney in the Georgia case, Joe Sibley, said that if future appeals failed, that judgment was enough to ruin his client financially: &#8220;the civil equivalent of the death penalty.&#8221;
Giuliani still faces additional charges in Georgia — for racketeering and conspiracy — and is also being sued for defamation by both Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic Corp., both of which he had claimed were part of &#8220;rigging&#8221; the 2020 presidential election in favor of President Joe Biden.

Rudy Giuliani Defamation Case Begins In Washington, D.C.

Rudy Giuliani Files For Bankruptcy In Wake Of $148 Million Judgment

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Federal authorities on Monday <a href="https://www.insider.com/fbi-raid-rudy-giuliani-johnathan-buma-donald-trump-classified-2023-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> raided the California home of one of the FBI&#8217;s own special agents — who alleged Russian intelligence agents may have &#8220;compromised&#8221; Rudy Giuliani while he was working as the lawyer for former President Donald Trump.
A search warrant — reported on by Business Insider — states that authorities searched the Orange County home of FBI Special Agent Jonathan Buma on suspicion that he violated federal laws against mishandling classified information. A receipt for property seized under the search warrant reportedly included &#8220;classified material&#8221; and &#8220;possible classified material&#8221; among the confiscated items.
Scott Horton, an attorney for Buma, denied the allegations and the property receipt as false. He said authorities seized computers and other items at the residence. Business Insider reported the property listed included nine laptops, three smartwatches, six tablets, two phones, and one desktop computer — most of which Horton said belonged to Buma&#8217;s wife and their children.
&#8220;There was no classified information found by the raid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know that from talking to my client.&#8221;
Horton said authorities discovered his client&#8217;s unclassified whistleblower complaint.
Buma, a 15-year FBI agent specializing in counter-intelligence investigations, filed protected whistleblower disclosures in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee, claiming bureau mismanagement and retaliation.
He alleged the agency ordered him not to investigate Trump&#8217;s associates and shut down his most valuable confidential human sources. The 22-page disclosure also indicated Giuliani had been compromised by Russian intelligence as part of an attempt to help Trump by discrediting President Joe Biden.
Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-raids-home-trump-whistleblower-johnathan-buma-1843737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Buma said in his letter to Senate lawmakers that anonymous people within the bureau targeted him with retaliation by assigning him to &#8220;surveillance missions&#8221; unrelated to his post after he discovered an alleged relationship between Giuliani and Russian intelligence.
&#8220;I do not fully understand why I have been singled out for this treatment nor who exactly is driving it,&#8221; Buma wrote. &#8220;But my strong suspicion is that one or more of my sources provided truthful, accurate information that is harmful to a person or persons that higher ups in the Bureau are trying to shield.&#8221;
Horton said the raid was &#8220;designed to be in retaliation for the whistleblower complaints&#8221; and called the bureau&#8217;s search &#8220;very heavy harassment.&#8221;
&#8220;They deployed the level of personnel that would be customary for a major mafia figure for a single active-duty FBI agent suspected of having cooperated with a congressional investigation,&#8221; Horton told Business Insider. &#8220;That is his offense. This continues to raise grave concerns about how the bureau&#8217;s counter-intelligence activities targeting the Russian intelligence services are undermined by political shenanigans on the part of senior bureau management.&#8221;
The FBI has not issued a public comment and has reportedly previously declined to comment on Buma&#8217;s allegations.

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FBI Raids Home Of Bureau Whistleblower Suspected Of Mishandling Classified Documents

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Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, alleging the former lawyer of President Trump played a central role in the &#8220;total annihilation&#8221; of Biden&#8217;s digital privacy and data related to his infamous laptop computer.
Biden filed the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.899829/gov.uscourts.cacd.899829.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15-page complaint</a> in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, which also named Giuliani&#8217;s companies and attorney and former federal prosecutor Robert Costello, who reportedly represented Giuliani as a defendant, accusing them of violating the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Attorneys for Biden seek a court order to prevent the Defendants from accessing, tampering with, manipulating, or copying Biden&#8217;s data and returning any content related to the laptop to the president&#8217;s son.
&#8220;For the past many months and even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time and energy toward looking for, hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from Plaintiff&#8217;s devices or storage platforms, including what Defendants claim to have obtained from Plaintiff&#8217;s alleged &#8220;laptop&#8221; computer,&#8221; Biden&#8217;s attorneys wrote in the complaint.
The suit also alleges the defendants admitted their possession of the content came from an &#8220;external drive&#8221; rather than an actual laptop reportedly left at a computer repair shop in Delaware in 2019. The data was &#8220;manipulated, altered and damaged&#8221; before the contents were copied and sent to Giuliani and Costello, the suit claims with &#8220;further alterations and damage to the data&#8221; unknown to the president&#8217;s son.
In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Giuliani disseminated emails, pictures and videos, and other data from Hunter&#8217;s laptop to the New York Post that implicated President Joe Biden in a Ukrainian business deal that placed Hunter on the board during his father&#8217;s time as Vice President during the Obama administration.
After initially claiming the laptop that he was accused of abandoning at the shop was either hacked, stolen, or some form of Russian disinformation campaign to hinder his father&#8217;s 2020 presidential candidacy, Hunter Biden finally admitted in a sitdown interview with CBS that it &#8220;certainly&#8221; could have belonged to him.
Then, amid working out a plea deal for a criminal probe, Biden finally admitted that the laptop packed with scandalous content was, in fact, his, according to the Post.
Ted Goodman, spokesman for Giuliani, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/hunter-biden-sues-rudy-giuliani-over-infamous-laptop.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNBC in a statement, &#8220;Hunter Biden has previously refused to admit ownership of the laptop.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised he&#8217;s now falsely claiming his laptop hard drive was manipulated by Mayor Giuliani, considering the sordid material and potential evidence of crimes on that thing,&#8221; Goodman said.
House Republicans recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-announces-formal-impeachment-inquiry-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened a formal impeachment inquiry</a> against Biden after lawmakers accused him of using his vice presidency to dissuade Ukrainian prosecutors from investigating the company. GOP officials also claim to have uncovered millions of dollars funneled to members of Biden&#8217;s family from foreign nationals.
Biden has repeatedly claimed he never spoke with his son about foreign business dealings.
The latest lawsuit from Hunter Biden comes after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-wh-staffer-over-infamous-laptop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">separate case</a> filed by his legal team accused former Trump White House staffer Garret Ziegler, the founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo, of violating California and federal computer privacy laws by publishing thousands of photos and emails from the laptop.
Ziegler worked for Trump during the last two years of his term as a policy analyst. His nonprofit created a new website in June, unveiling controversial content from the laptop to bring &#8220;truth and transparency&#8221; to America&#8217;s first family.

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Hunter Biden Sues Rudy Giuliani And A Former Federal Prosecutor Over Laptop

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A federal judge delivered on Wednesday a default judgment against former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, saying that the former New York City mayor is liable for defaming two Georgia election workers.
U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell wrote in a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.94.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">57-page ruling</a> that Giuliani flagrantly violated her orders and failed to produce evidence related to his claims that election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea&#8217; ArShaye Moss mishandled ballots in the 2020 presidential election.
Howell, an appointee of President Barack Obama, ordered Giuliani to pay approximately $133,000 in sanctions for attorneys&#8217; fees for the plaintiffs in the civil conspiracy lawsuit.
&#8220;Just as taking shortcuts to win an election carries risks — even potential criminal liability — bypassing the discovery process carries serious sanctions, no matter what reservations a noncompliant party may try artificially to preserve for appeal,&#8221; Howell wrote.
Giuliani, who as a prosecutor effectively targeted the Mafia and as mayor cleaned up the city of New York before becoming an advisor to former President Donald Trump, is named in the sweeping racketeering indictment against Trump and 17 other co-defendants on charges related to an alleged conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election.
Charging documents claimed Giuliani alleged election fraud occurred in Georgia. Prosecutors have claimed he participated in a scheme to have 16 Georgia Republicans calling themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors and swear Trump had won the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani accused Freeman and Moss of manipulating ballots during Georgia&#8217;s vote-counting process in the presidential election. The indictment alleges in part that Giuliani made &#8220;false statements&#8221; to Georgia legislators related to the accusations on Freeman and Moss.
Freeman and Moss sued Giuliani and One America News Network in 2021 with claims of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil conspiracy.
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They wrote Giuliani&#8217;s claims &#8220;led to an immediate onslaught of violent and racist threats and harassment&#8221; that left them &#8220;afraid to live normal lives,&#8221; Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/08/30/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers-defamation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A judge later dismissed the network from the defamation lawsuit after the plaintiffs reached a settlement.
In a court filing last month, Giuliani conceded that he had made &#8220;false&#8221; statements about the election workers that were &#8220;defamatory per se,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/us/politics/giuliani-georgia-election-workers.html#:~:text=Giuliani%20has%20conceded%20that%20while,Atlanta%20during%20the%202020%20election." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times.
Judge Howell ordered the case to proceed to trial to determine the further damages Giuliani could owe, which reportedly could amount to thousands if not millions of dollars. The judge also ordered Giuliani to submit financial documents and records related to revenue and viewership for his &#8220;Common Sense&#8221; podcast before September 20.
In response to the ruling, Giuliani&#8217;s political adviser Ted Goodman <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/giuliani-sanctioned-judge-defamation-case-brought-2-georgia/story?id=102723328" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC News that the judge&#8217;s &#8220;57 page opinion on discovery — which would usually be no more than two or three pages — is a prime example of the weaponization of the justice system, where the process is the punishment.&#8221;
&#8220;This decision should be reversed,&#8221; Goodman added.
Last week, Giuliani made a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/giuliani-turns-himself-in-im-defending-the-rights-of-all-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on before leaving for Georgia, where he surrendered at the Fulton County jail after being charged in the racketeering indictment.
“I’m going down to Georgia and I’m feeling very, very good about it because I feel like I’m defending the rights of all Americans as I did so many times as a United States attorney,” Giuliani stated. “People like to say I’m different; I’m the same Rudy Giuliani that took down the Mafia, that made New York City the safest city in America, reduced crime more than any mayor in the history of any city, anywhere. And I’m fighting for justice; I have been for the first moment I represented Donald Trump.”
Giuliani then echoed Trump’s claim that the targeting of Trump portended the federal government coming after the average citizen.
“Now whether you dislike or you like Donald Trump, let me give you a warning: they’re gonna come for you. When the political winds shift, as they always do, let us pray that Republicans are more honest, more trustworthy, and more American than these people in charge of this government. Because if our government is conducted this way, and the system of justice is politicized and criminalized for politics, your rights are in jeopardy and your children’s.”
“Donald Trump told you this: they weren’t just coming for him, or me,” Giuliani asserted. “Now they’ve indicted people, in this case I don’t even know who they are. These are just regular people making a normal living. They’re going to bankrupt them. They won’t convict them.”
Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

Defendants In State Of Georgia V. Trump Case To Be Booked Through Fulton County Jail

Federal Judge Says Rudy Giuliani Liable For Defaming Georgia Election Workers, Sanctions Former NYC Mayor

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who as a prosecutor effectively targeted the Mafia and as a mayor cleaned up the city of New York before becoming an advisor to Donald Trump, made a statement on Wednesday morning before leaving for Georgia, where he will surrender at the Fulton County jail after being charged with attempting to subvert the 2020 election results.
Charging documents claimed Giuliani promoted unsupported allegations of election fraud in Georgia. Prosecutors have claimed he participated in a scheme to have 16 Georgia Republicans calling themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors and swear Trump had won the 2020 presidential election.
“I don’t know if I plead today, but if I do, I plead not guilty and I get photographed,” Giuliani said. “Isn’t that nice? A mug shot for the man who probably put the worst criminals of the 20th century in jail? You find a prosecutor who has a better record than mine in the last hundred years &#8212; I bet you don&#8217;t, or a mayor. And they’re going to degrade themselves by doing a mug shot of me, like people will recognize me. And then of course, they can fingerprint me, but I’ve been fingerprinted 150 times. So this will turn out exactly like the FBI search turned out. They’re lying; I’m telling the truth.”
“I’m going down to Georgia and I’m feeling very, very good about it because I feel like I’m defending the rights of all Americans as I did so many times as a United States attorney,&#8221; Giuliani stated. “People like to say I’m different; I’m the same Rudy Giuliani that took down the Mafia, that made New York City the safest city in America, reduced crime more than any mayor in the history of any city, anywhere. And I’m fighting for justice; I have been for the first moment I represented Donald Trump.”
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“And as a man who has now been proven innocent several times, I don’t know how many times he (Trump) has to be proven innocent and they have to be proven to be liars, actually enemies of our Republic who are destroying rights, sacred rights,” he continued, before alleging, “They’re destroying my right to counsel, my right to be a lawyer. They’re destroying his right to counsel. It’s not accidental that they’ve indicted all his lawyers. Never heard of that before in America, all the lawyers indicted.”
Giuliani then echoed Trump’s claim that the targeting of Trump portended the federal government coming after the average citizen, saying, “Now whether you dislike or you like Donald Trump, let me give you a warning: they’re gonna come for you. When the political winds shift, as they always do, let us pray that Republicans are more honest, more trustworthy, and more American than these people in charge of this government. Because if our government is conducted this way, and the system of justice is politicized and criminalized for politics, your rights are in jeopardy and your children’s.”
“Donald Trump told you this: they weren’t just coming for him, or me,” Giuliani asserted. “Now they’ve indicted people, in this case I don’t even know who they are. These are just regular people making a normal living. They’re going to bankrupt them. They won’t convict them.”

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Giuliani Turns Himself In: ‘I’m Defending The Rights Of All Americans’

Former President Donald Trump and several of his top allies were indicted in Georgia late Monday night by a Fulton County grand jury over their alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the 19 individuals charged under Georgia&#8217;s RICO Act — which allows prosecutors to connect various crimes committed by multiple defendants and argue that they were working together toward a criminal goal — were part of a &#8220;criminal enterprise.&#8221;
Nineteen individuals were charged in the 41-count <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23909553/read-trump-indictment-in-fulton-county-georgia-probe.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a>, including Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Ken Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Ray Stallings Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Mike Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Micah Tresher Still, Stephen Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Sidney Powell, Cathleen Latham, Scott Hall, and Misty Hampton.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/14/us/trump-indictment-georgia-election#trump-indictment-georgia-charges-takeaways" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the indictment contains what are effectively several &#8220;baskets&#8221; of alleged criminal activity to keep the former president in office and none of the defendants were involved in all of the alleged different schemes, which included: making false claims of election fraud at a legislative hearing in December 2020, trying to install a slate of &#8220;fake&#8221; pro-Trump electors to give Georgia&#8217;s Electoral College votes to Trump, trying to steal and tamper with voter data and election equipment, and trying to harass and intimidate an election worker.
The case can also be broadcast on television so the public will witness all the evidence that is being presented.
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The following defendants have until noon on August 25th to turn themselves in:
Donald Trump — 13 charges:
<ul>
<li>3 counts: Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>2 counts: False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
<li>1 count: Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
Rudy Giuliani, lawyer — 13 charges:
<ul>
<li>3 counts: Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer</li>
<li>3 counts: False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
Ray Smith III, lawyer — 12 charges:
<ul>
<li>3 counts: Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer</li>
<li>2 counts: False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
Cathy Latham, Alleged Fake Elector — 11 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>1 count: False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Criminal Attempt to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
<li>1 count:Conspiracy to Commit Computer Theft</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Trespass</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Invasion of Privacy</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Defraud the State</li>
</ul>
Robert Cheeley, lawyer — 10 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
<li>1 count: Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Perjury</li>
</ul>
John Eastman, lawyer — 9 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
<li>1 count: Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
David Shafer, Alleged Fake Elector — 8 charges:
<ul>
<li>3 counts: False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>2 counts: Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Criminal Attempt to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
Shawn Still, Alleged Fake Elector — 7 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>2 counts: Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Criminal Attempt to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
Sidney Powell, lawyer — 7 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count:Conspiracy to Commit Computer Theft</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Trespass</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Invasion of Privacy</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Defraud the State</li>
</ul>
Kenneth Chesebro, lawyer — 7 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
Michael Roman, Trump campaign staffer — 7 charges:
<ul>
<li>3 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree</li>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents</li>
</ul>
Misty Hampton, Coffee County elections supervisor — 7 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count:Conspiracy to Commit Computer Theft</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Trespass</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Invasion of Privacy</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Defraud the State</li>
</ul>
Scott Hall, Bail Bondsman — 7 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count:Conspiracy to Commit Computer Theft</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Trespass</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Invasion of Privacy</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Defraud the State</li>
</ul>
Stephen Lee, Pastor — 5 charges:
<ul>
<li>2 counts: Criminal Attempt to Commit Influencing Witnesses</li>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Solicitation of False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Influencing Witnesses</li>
</ul>
Trevian Kutti, Publicist — 3 charges:
<ul>
<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Solicitation of False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Influencing Witnesses</li>
</ul>
Willie Lewis Floyd III, former leader of “Black Voices for Trump” — 3 charges:
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<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Conspiracy to Commit Solicitation of False Statements and Writings</li>
<li>1 count: Influencing Witnesses</li>
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Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff — 2 charges:
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<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer</li>
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Jeffrey Clark, former DOJ official — 2 charges:
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<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Criminal Attempt to Commit False Statements and Writings</li>
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Jenna Ellis, lawyer — 2 charges:
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<li>1 count: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act</li>
<li>1 count: Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer</li>
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A nonprofit research group which combed through Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop has sent a letter to the judge overseeing the First Son&#8217;s tax fraud case, urging her to reject the plea deal offered by prosecutors.
Marco Polo, which put emails from the laptop <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/website-revealing-over-10000-photos-from-hunter-bidens-laptop-crashes-shortly-after-initial-launch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online</a> and wrote a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-laptop-documents-at-least-459-legal-violations-watchdog-group-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">630-page report</a> summarizing its contents, said that judges are not obligated to accept plea deals even if prosecutors and the defendant agree on them, and that &#8220;not only will the plea deal in front of you, if accepted, make a mockery of the phrase &#8216;slap on the wrist,&#8217; but it will also send a sobering message to citizens which demonstrates that nepotism and proximity to political power determines outcomes in our criminal justice system.&#8221;
It <a href="https://media.marcopolousa.org/pdf/dearjudgenoreika.pdf">said</a> &#8220;there is evidence for, at the very least, 459 violations of state and federal laws and regulations on the device. The breakdown is as follows: 140 business-related crimes, 191 sex-related crimes, and, lastly, 128 drug-related crimes. These instances of criminal wrongdoing are supported by primary source evidence: emails, photos, videos, text messages, audio files, et al. The plea deal for your consideration is so meager that the phrase &#8216;limited hangout&#8217; does not describe the situation.&#8221;
It said a &#8220;limited hangout&#8221; is a public relations technique in which someone who wants to cover up something major admits to a very small portion in order to claim that the issue has been put to rest.
Joining Marco Polo in the letter was Rudy Giuliani, the former Donald Trump attorney who played a role in disseminating the laptop after the FBI appeared to sit on it.
&#8220;By virtue of having been the United States Attorney (&#8216;USA&#8217;) for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Giuliani is uniquely capable of spotting a &#8216;sweetheart&#8217; deal reserved for those such as Biden, whose father is the president. Without Biden&#8217;s familial connections, there is no way any USA or AUSA would have proposed two misdemeanors and essentially a non-prosecution on the felony gun charge,&#8221; the letter said.
Robert Costello, Giuliani&#8217;s own lawyer and a former deputy in the New York prosecutor&#8217;s office, also signed the letter to Judge Maryellen Noreika of the District of Delaware federal court.
The letter said that congressional oversight and whistleblower disclosures have provided information that suggests that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-reaches-plea-deal-over-tax-crimes-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plea deal</a>, which is limited to misdemeanor tax charges, would allow a felony gun charge to go away under a diversion program, and carries a penalty of only probation, was the result of prosecutorial misconduct.
It said that then-Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf prevented investigators from getting more evidence by tipping the Bidens off that a raid on a storage unit was imminement.
&#8220;This egregious leak from Wolf-and her Department of Justice colleague and lawyer, Mark Daly-infuriated the IRS investigators (i.e. two of the whistleblowers) and likely violated Pennsylvania Bar rules (where Wolf is barred) in addition to federal statutes. Furthermore, Wolf apparently concealed evidence from the investigators, demanded that investigators avoid inquiring about &#8216;the big guy,&#8217; a moniker for the U.S. president, Joe Biden, and was improperly concerned about the &#8216;optics&#8217; regarding a search warrant of the U.S. President&#8217;s guest house. Suffice it is to say that &#8216;optics&#8217; should not dictate investigative steps.&#8221;
It said according to congressional testimony from IRS whistleblowers, Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyer Chris Clark told prosecutors that their &#8220;careers would be ruined if they brought various charges against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reveals-disturbing-information-about-presidents-son-underage-relative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter</a>.&#8221;
Further, &#8220;the District of Delaware has never — going back to 1995 — charged 26 USC §7203 as a standalone misdemeanor, as is the case with Biden. This proposed plea deal is, quite literally, unprecedented; we hope you will recognize that it is unprecedented because it is unjust,&#8221; the letter said.
&#8220;Lastly, the Chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has announced that Biden&#8217;s former business partner, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunters-former-best-friend-will-testify-that-hunter-had-dad-on-phone-multiple-times-with-foreign-business-partners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Devon Archer</a>, will be testifying before his Committee early next week. It is imperative that this Court be apprised of that testimony to consider whether to accept this plea offer. At the very least, Your Honor&#8217;s consideration of this proposed plea should not be made until you are aware of all the salient facts likely to be revealed,&#8221; it said.

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A former employee of Rudy Giuliani filed a lawsuit against him in New York this week seeking $10 million for allegedly committing sexual assault, sexual harassment, wage theft, and &#8220;other misconduct&#8221; in a series of incidents that she allegedly recorded.
Noelle Dunphy says that she was hired by Giuliani in January 2019 to be his director of business development with a salary of $1 million per year and that he would provide her with pro bono legal representation in a legal battle involving an ex-partner.
Dunphy described the opportunity as &#8220;too good to pass up&#8221; but claimed that Giuliani&#8217;s offers &#8220;were a sham motivated by his secret desire to pursue a sexual relationship&#8221; with her.
The allegations were contained in a 70-page <a href="https://eddsa.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/650033_2023_Noelle_Dunphy_v_Rudolph_W_Giuliani_et_al_COMPLAINT_10.pdf">lawsuit</a> filed in a New York court on Monday that alleged that Giuliani &#8220;drank morning, noon, and night, and was frequently intoxicated, and therefore his behavior was always unpredictable.&#8221;
Some of the allegations featured in the lawsuit included:
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<li>Giuliani also took Viagra constantly. While working with Ms. Dunphy, Giuliani would look to Ms. Dunphy, point to his erect penis, and tell her that he could not do any work until “you take care of this.” Thus, Ms. Dunphy worked under the constant threat that Giuliani might demand sex from her at any moment. Even when the Covid-19 pandemic halted Giuliani’s ability to physically assault her, he demanded that she disrobe during their work-related videoconferences.</li>
<li>Giuliani also abused his position as Ms. Dunphy’s lawyer to pressure her into sex. In one instance, for example, Giuliani promised Ms. Dunphy that he would give her $300,000 if she would forgo her legal rights in connection with her pending case and “f*** me like crazy.” This statement was recorded.</li>
<li>As Ms. Dunphy continued her work for Giuliani and the Giuliani Companies, the work environment became increasingly hostile. In addition to his sexual demands, Giuliani went on alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks, which made the work environment unbearable. Many of these comments were recorded.</li>
<li>He also asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split. He told Ms. Dunphy that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through “the normal channels” of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.</li>
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Ted Goodman, a political and communications advisor to Giuliani, released a following statement Monday evening saying that Giuliani denied all of the allegations in the lawsuit.
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&#8220;Mayor Rudy Giuliani unequivocally denies the allegations raised by Ms. Dunphy and every news outlet covering this story must include the fact that an ex-partner accused her of being, &#8216;an escort that fleeces wealthy men,'&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;He claimed she&#8217;s taken part in &#8216;prior schemes to defraud high net-worth men,&#8217; according to a 2016 New York Post story.&#8221;
&#8220;He also claimed she, &#8216;bragged about extorting $5 million&#8217; from the son of a successful Wall Street investor, with a fake rape claim in 2011,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Mayor Giuliani&#8217;s lifetime of public service speaks for itself and he will pursue all available remedies and counterclaims.&#8221;

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John Paul Mac Isaac was an introverted Delaware computer repair man until his life was destroyed for trying to do the right thing, with authorities thwarting or ignoring him at every turn, he said in a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Injustice-Battle-Expose-Truth/dp/1637586841/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book released Tuesday</a>. &#8220;&#8216;If you see something, say something&#8217;, we&#8217;re told. I did see something, and I did say something. I was vilified for it,&#8221; he wrote.
Mac Isaac said that a boozy Hunter Biden dropped off three laptops for repair on April 12, 2019, and agreed to pay $85 to recover files from one of them, whose password was something like &#8220;analf&#8212;69.&#8221; The now-First Son came back a few days later to bring an external drive, then never responded to the call informing him that the recovery was complete.
Mac Isaac immediately saw homemade porn littering the desktop, along with financial records detailing millions of dollars in foreign transactions. He wanted nothing to do with a political scandal, but he figured it would be a moot point, as Joe Biden seemed too old to advance in the Democratic primary.
But when then-President Donald Trump was subjected to impeachment proceedings related to his allegedly pressuring Ukraine president to investigate the Biden family&#8217;s business dealings there, Mac Isaac sensed injustice. &#8220;I was sitting on evidence that could exonerate the president and justify his actions. Whether you like a person or not, everyone is entitled to a fair trial,&#8221; he wrote. And under his contract, abandoned property legally became his.
Reviewing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reveals-disturbing-information-about-presidents-son-underage-relative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laptop&#8217;s contents</a>, Mac Isaac had seen that in 2014, Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-laptop-documents-at-least-459-legal-violations-watchdog-group-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plotted</a> a business venture in Ukraine that overlapped with U.S. actions. They discussed buying burner phones at a 7-Eleven. On April 16, 2014, Vice President Biden met with Archer at the White House. Five days later, the vice president traveled to Ukraine. The day after that, Archer was awarded a position on the board of directors of the country&#8217;s oil and gas firm Burisma, with Hunter joining weeks later, &#8220;to the tune of $1,295,000 each,&#8221; Mac Isaac wrote. The computer&#8217;s contents also showed Hunter telling his daughter that unlike his father, he wouldn&#8217;t make her give him half the money she earned.
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<h1>&#8220;You better lawyer up and don&#8217;t talk to anyone about this,&#8221; the FBI agent said, according to Mac Isaac. &#8220;The door is on the left.&#8221;</h1>
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Vadym Pozharskyi, Burisma&#8217;s number-two official, wasted no time in asking for Hunter and Archer&#8217;s &#8220;advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message/signal, etc, to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions&#8221; related to an investigation into Burisma, he wrote. On April 17, Pozharskyi &#8220;thanked Hunter for the opportunity to meet his father,&#8221; he wrote.
Hunter and Archer hired a company called Blue Star Strategies &#8220;to perform the heavy lifting between Burisma and the White House,&#8221; and Blue Star began providing Burisma with sensitive executive-branch information, Mac Isaac wrote. In December 2015, Joe Biden visited Ukraine and threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees unless the prosecutor who had investigated Burisma was fired.
Mac Isaac became convinced that federal authorities needed to see what was on the hard drive, but he was concerned about bringing it to Delaware-based agents because of the Bidens&#8217; sway. His father was a former Air Force colonel who had spent time at the CIA, so on October 9, 2019, the elder Mac Isaac flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico to deliver a copy of the drive to an FBI field office there. But the agent refused to accept it, instead grilling Mac Isaac&#8217;s father on whether the computer repairman might have broken the law, he wrote.
&#8220;I consulted with a regional legal officer, and he suggested you should get a lawyer,&#8221; the FBI agent said, according to Mac Isaac. &#8220;You better lawyer up and don&#8217;t talk to anyone about this&#8230; I don&#8217;t have anything else for you, and the door is on the left.&#8221;
In November 2019, Special Agent Joshua J. Wilson of the FBI&#8217;s Baltimore/Wilmington division contacted the Mac Isaacs. Impeachment hearings were under way in the Senate. On November 19, 2019, Wilson and another agent with the last named DeMeo visited Mac Isaac&#8217;s apartment. Mac Isaac printed out key emails and slid them to the agents, saying &#8220;This collection of emails shows preferred access to the State Department as well as the vice president&#8217;s travel schedule, all sent to private Ukrainian citizens.&#8221;
&#8220;Have you spoken with anyone else about this?&#8221; Wilson asked, according to Mac Isaac. The agents left without taking the emails — taking only the contract that showed whether Mac Isaac was the legal owner of the laptop, he wrote.
On December 9, 2019, they showed up with a subpoena to take the original laptop computer, instead of taking a cloned copy as originally discussed. On their way out, DeMeo allegedly remarked, &#8220;It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don&#8217;t talk about these things.&#8221;
They said they were taking the physical computer so the FBI&#8217;s top computer experts could assess it. But someone named Matt soon called with the most basic questions about how to read a Mac hard drive. And he was attempting to boot up the operating system directly, which could spoil the intact nature of the evidence. Mac Isaac said they could come back to the shop so he could show them how to recover a hard drive. DeMeo was standing in the room with Matt. &#8220;Absolutely not. We&#8217;re done; hang up,&#8221; Mac Isaac heard him say, according to the book.
&#8220;I sat back and pondered the multitude of possible reasons these FBI agents had chosen to give the laptop to someone who clearly knew very little about computers,&#8221; he wrote. The weeks passed, and Trump&#8217;s impeachment proceeded, with the laptop still unknown to the world.
Mac Isaac was just an ordinary person with no experience dealing with the media, politicians or government. With no movement from the FBI, his father tried to get it to the offices of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Jim Jordan, but got no bite, he said.
Mac Isaac sent a tip to Sen. Ron Johnson&#8217;s office, and received back only an unsigned note that asked a few terse questions that seemed to probe into his own actions more than the substance of the laptop. Johnson&#8217;s office then leaked Mac Isaac&#8217;s identity to investigative reporter John Solomon without his consent, he claimed. When Mac Isaac pressed for a substantive conversation with a Johnson aide, the aide called and said that two National Security Administration officials were also on the line, who proceeded to take over the call and grill Mac Isaac about his own actions — such as asking if he had ever been to Russia — again with little interest in the hard drive itself, Mac Isaac claimed. (Johnson&#8217;s office did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire.)
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It was not lost on Mac Isaac that the Trump impeachment trial revolved around a whistleblower whose identity had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-leftist-activist-lawyer-ukraine-impeachment?itm_source=parsely-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruthlessly shielded</a> — with social media blocking his name and major media avoiding reporting it, even though some outlets reported that the whistleblower was a former aide to Joe Biden who would have had a clear agenda. &#8220;Why was I being made to feel so guilty by the people I was trying to help, for doing the right thing?&#8221; he wrote.
Mac Isaac ultimately took the drive to Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for Trump, as a last resort. Robert Costello, who worked for Giuliani, promptly responded to a tip and asked him to FedEx a copy of the drive on August 27, 2020. Costello immediately began going through it.
Through Giuliani, the New York Post obtained access to the laptop, leading to a story that landed on October 14, 2020. The Post neglected to redact the address of Mac Isaac&#8217;s store, leading to a glut of threats and vandalism.
Mac Isaac hoped that, with Giuliani briefing him based on the contents of the hard drive, Trump would bring the truth to America in the presidential debate. But Trump failed to clearly communicate what was on the laptop, Mac Isaac said.
To suppress the Post story, former intelligence operatives traded on their credentials to push a storyline that suggested that the kilt-wearing Scotsman with albinism was actually a Russian agent. &#8220;Did they actually think I&#8217;d come to Wilmington ten years earlier and opened up a Mac repair business as a cover, just waiting for an intoxicated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter</a> to one day stumble in with a damaged laptop?&#8221; he wrote.
The day after the election, he closed down his business and left the state. &#8220;I felt like I was being punished for having done the right thing. As if the powers that be were setting an example for others who might have the same notion,&#8221; he wrote.

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On a summer day in 1986, in need of a cigarette, I emerged from the 59th Street subway station in Brooklyn with my K-9 partner, Sarge. I was a 24-year-old police officer with four years experience under my belt.
Standing on the corner of Fourth Avenue was another young cop covering a foot post. He gestured to several males loitering on a stoop down the block and warned me not to wander too close. “It’s a crack house,” he said. I was shocked that a police officer would think such a thing, let alone say it out loud. “We’re the police,” I responded. “If we don’t walk down there who the hell will?” His answer was simple: ”Not me.” As I watched him walk away, I couldn’t help but feel angry.
I marched down the block with Sarge and stood in front of the house. By the time I finished my cigarette, the crack slingers and their corner boys had slithered away.
But that moment stuck with me. I didn’t understand the cop’s attitude then, but I get it now. He had no leadership, direction, or sense of mission. The city was on the cusp of a crack epidemic that would claim the lives of 1,500 people that year in the five boroughs.
By 1988, the number of murders climbed toward 2,000 &#8211; a far cry from the 400 or so homicides the city is on pace for this year. The streets were in chaos. Time’s Square was infested with crack dealers, crooks, and smut shops. Wolf packs of young thugs rampaged through the city streets and subways, robbing tourists and terrorizing residents.
Luxury Hotels were turned into “homeless” shelters and Section 8 housing. The subways were over-run with vagrants, and the mentally ill were living all over the streets. Graffiti was everywhere. Squeegee men controlled intersections at the bridges entering the city. The project playgrounds and street corners belonged to the drug dealers. It seemed hopeless and none of the politicians or police brass seemed to have a plan to stop it. Sound familiar?
<h3>Detective Lieutenant Jack Maple</h3>
Around that time, in a Transit Police satellite office on Vesey Street in lower Manhattan, a brilliant, tough, fearless Detective Lieutenant named Jack Maple was creating a Unit called the Repeat Offender Robbery Strike Force (RORSF) that would revolutionize crime fighting in the city and across the country. Maple’s idea was to map crime, identify robbery patterns in the transit system, and then proactively allocate resources to those specific areas to catch robbers in the act or fleeing from the scene. The results were astounding.
In three short years, Wolf Pack Robberies (robberies involving four or more suspects) went from 1,200 a year in the subway to less than 200. Token Booth robberies, the subway version of a bank robbery, went from 120 a year to 12. Across the board, violent crime in the subways fell in ways never imagined. It was the birth of a crime-fighting tool called COMPSTAT.
<h3>Giuliani, Bratton, And Maple</h3>
When Rudy Giuliani was elected the 107th mayor in 1994, Transit Police Chief William Bratton and Maple took their concept and the results to City Hall. Giuliani was so impressed, he made Bratton the NYPD’s next police commissioner and Maple his right hand man as deputy commissioner of operations. 
Together they would implement COMPSTAT across the NYPD and transform a reactionary force of 38,000 cops into a proactive army with a specific mission to attack high crime areas with a zero tolerance crime policy intent on restoring a sense of law and order to the streets. The result was violent criminals being taken off the streets in record numbers and tens of thousands of lives being saved.
By 2002, the year I retired from the NYPD, the murder rate along with most other major crime would crater almost 70% across the board. By 2017, murders had dropped below 300 citywide, a number not seen since 1951. New York had become the safest big city in the country. 
<h3>That Was Then, This Is Now</h3>
The violence we saw back in the 80s and 90s is eerily similar to what we see happening today. Crime is up dramatically in 76 of New York City’s 77 precincts, except this time the violence is not fueled by drug dealers slinging crack. It’s fueled by a corrupt and irresponsible media, and progressive politicians slinging anti-police rhetoric. Meanwhile, policies are enacted that handcuff officers from enforcing the law, and thousands of violent criminals are released back into our most vulnerable neighborhoods. 
Rudy Giuliani, a Republican who was tough on crime, was elected mayor in a navy blue state. Regardless of what people may say about him today, he worked 20 hours a day, seven days a week to clean up the city. He treated the crack epidemic and violent crime like a crisis. He put criminals on notice, making it clear the city would no longer tolerate chaos and disorder on the streets. He gave the police department a clear mission, and then surrounded himself with competent people to help him execute it.
<h3>Adams And Sewell</h3>
Eight months into his administration, Mayor Eric Adams has failed to do anything beyond offering a lot of tough talk. He spends too much time <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/06/20/mayor-eric-adams-parties-with-french-montana-on-fathers-day/">partying</a> in the Hamptons and <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/06/12/nightlife-insiders-praise-party-mayor-eric-adams/">rubbing elbows</a> with celebrities in NYC nightclubs and largely ignores a burgeoning crisis that threatens to cripple the city for years to come. His answer to violent crime is to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/nypd-cops-ordered-not-to-congregate-on-city-streets-memo/">prohibit</a> police officers from congregating in public. And as the situation spirals out of control, where is Adams’ Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell? At times, it’s as if Adams is trying to be the mayor and police commissioner. He is failing miserably at both.
It’s time for the commissioner to step down. She is clearly not up to the task. Running the NYPD is the most coveted and difficult job in policing. When Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/08/eric-adams-reiterates-pledge-to-hire-woman-police-commissioner/">publicly announced</a> he would not consider anyone but a woman as his police commissioner, a blatant act of discrimination, he eliminated a large pool of more qualified and experienced candidates from many different backgrounds.
Real change starts with you, the citizen. You must not sit back in fear, ignorance, or indifference while people are being attacked with hatchets at ATMs or shoved onto the subway tracks, and children are being struck down in a hail of gunfire. You have to get up off the couch, go to your churches, community, and school board meetings, take the gloves off, and demand change.
Call out your precinct captains, district attorneys, and political leaders about your failing schools, out of control crime, and insane policies like bail reform. Speak out against defunding the police. The murders of young black and brown men in inner city neighborhoods can no longer be accepted as normal and should be dealt with as if it were happening on the ritzy Upper East Side of Manhattan. Get involved. Vote the bums out who have been promising you rainbows and unicorns and giving you nothing but substandard education, crime, and poverty.
<h3>Let Them Know</h3>
The Police Benevolent Association (PBA) has done a good job of sticking up for its membership, but more needs to be done. The safety of the rank and file is non-negotiable. Right now they cannot safely do their jobs. The union needs to fight. Expose these moronic politicians and their insane policies on TV, podcasts, and on social media every day. Be relentless. Let people hear stories from victims and their families. Police officers on the street have to win back the hearts and minds of the people in the inner city by targeting criminals and not the hard working families who are the real victims of the bail reform, anti-police, defund crowd. They have to know we’re on their side.
As police officers, we swear an oath to protect and serve. I understand the reluctance to do that in today’s climate. But it’s our job. We can’t stand by while elected officials make a mockery of us. Police officers can’t retreat from a bucket of water being poured over their heads or run away when bricks or fireworks are fired at their police cars. We can’t be afraid to do our jobs.
The PBA needs to use its political clout and every resource available to take the handcuffs off of our officers. COMPSTAT works, but not without the backing of city politicians, police brass, and the public.
We need serious, courageous leadership in the city and state government to take the streets back from criminals and return them to hard working, law-abiding citizens. Real change can happen and I have witnessed it before. It won’t be easy and it won’t happen overnight. I saw it with my own eyes. 
It all starts with you at the ballot box.
John Dove is a retired NYPD Detective Lieutenant and the former co-executive producer of CSI-NY starring Gary Sinise.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Rudy Giuliani, who served as former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attorney, has been notified that he is under criminal investigation in Georgia for matters related to the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani&#8217;s lawyers revealed on Monday that they had been informed that he is a &#8220;target&#8221; in Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis&#8217; investigation into efforts to overturn the election results.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/us/graham-georgia-investigation-trump.html">reported</a> that prosecutors had questioned witnesses before a special grand jury about remarks that Giuliani made during appearances in front of state legislative panels the month after the 2020 election.
Giuliani <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-medical-procedure-travel-grand-jury-georgia-fulton-county-2022-8?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=">tried</a> to delay having to testify before the special grand jury by saying that a recent medical procedure would prevent him from being able to travel.
However, Willis&#8217; office obtained records showing that he had &#8220;purchased multiple airline tickets with cash, including tickets to Rome, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland&#8221; for dates that &#8220;were after&#8221; his &#8220;medical procedure.&#8221;
Giuliani is now scheduled to testify Wednesday at a courthouse in Atlanta.
“If these people think he’s going to talk about conversations between him and President Trump, they’re delusional,” Giuliani attorney Robert Costello said.
The FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-probe-centers-around-several-potential-crimes-could-be-in-trouble-even-if-he-declassified-docs">executed a search warrant</a> on Trump&#8217;s Florida home at Mar-a-Lago last week which was approved by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Multiple sources <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/us/politics/trump-classified-material-fbi.html">told</a> The New York Times that at least one of Trump’s lawyers signed a written statement to the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this summer that claimed all classified material and boxes in a storage area on the property had been returned to the federal government. Agents searched the storage area and Trump’s office and residence on the property.
Federal investigators recovered at least 4 sets of top secret documents, 3 sets of secret documents, and 3 sets of confidential documents during their search.
The signed declaration, combined with the at least 11 sets of classified documents that were discovered on the property, could mean that either Trump or his legal team potentially lied to federal investigators.
The sections of the U.S. criminal code that were cited on the search warrant indicate the investigation centers around potential violations of the Espionage Act, the unlawful taking of government records, and obstruction of justice related to destroying documents.
Trump has repeatedly stated that he had declassified all the material that was at his Florida residence, which he could have legally done when he was president, although a separate <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/us/trump-espionage-act-laws-fbi.html">report</a> from The New York Times noted that usually when that happens, classified markings are removed from the documents. The report noted that none of the criminal violations that Trump is under investigation for have anything to do with whether the documents were classified or not, meaning that Trump could still be charged with a crime even if he did declassify the documents.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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A supermarket employee slapped former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the back on Sunday while campaigning for his son, Andrew, who is running to become the state&#8217;s next governor.
The slap occurred at a ShopRite located on the island&#8217;s southwest end and reportedly shook up 78-year-old Giuliani. According to a witness, the police arrested the suspect, who was on duty at the time of the incident.
At approximately 3:30 p.m., a 39-year-old male approached Giuliani, slapped him in the mid-back, and said, &#8220;What&#8217;s up scumbag?,&#8221; a spokesperson from The Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information told The Daily Wire.
Giuliani refused medical attention at the scene, and police took the attacker into custody.
Giuliani&#8217;s gubernatorial-candidate son, Andrew Giuliani, told <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/26/rudy-giuliani-attacked-inside-staten-island-shoprite/">The New York Post</a>.
&#8220;My dad is tough as nails.&#8221;
Giuliani reportedly told The New York Post the slap almost knocked him down &#8220;but regained his composure—even as his attacked kept cursing at him.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s doing fine,&#8221; Andrew later said of his father, The New York Post reported. &#8220;But it&#8217;s a sad day when New Yorkers&#8217; greatest crime fighter, &#8216;America&#8217;s Mayor,&#8217; is attacked.
According to The New York Post, Giuliani&#8217;s said his father was in &#8220;good spirits&#8221; and claimed he &#8220;ran into the only person who is not voting for Andrew Giuliani.&#8221;
Giuliani&#8217;s son said he blames the left-wing for encouraging violence.
&#8220;This is crazy,&#8221; he told The New York Post.
Rudy Giuliani, the former lawyer of President Donald Trump, allegedly was posing for photos during the attack.
Dr. Maria Ryan, Giuliani&#8217;s partner, reportedly told The New York Post, &#8220;Rudy was assaulted.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s a 78-year-old man with a bad back and bad knees,&#8221; she said.
One witness said the incident &#8220;stunned&#8221; her.
&#8220;I was shoulder-to-shoulder with Rudy inside ShopRite,&#8221; Rugova-Johnson told The New York Post. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking, and all of a sudden an employee came out of nowhere and open-handedly slapped him in the back and said, &#8216;Hey, what&#8217;s up scumbag?'&#8221;
The Post reportedly said law-enforcement sources the suspect will be charged with second-degree assault involving a person over age 65. However, The Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information told The Daily Wire that charges remain unknown at the time.
The man has no prior arrests.

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‘What’s Up Scumbag?’: Rudy Giuliani Slapped In The Back By A Staten Island Supermarket Employee

Rudy Guliani Slapped In The Back While Campaigning For His Son By A Staten Island Supermarket Employee 

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