A court filing by Rudy Giuliani’s attorneys highlights the former mayor of New York’s struggle to keep an accountant to manage his bankruptcy.
According to a May 7 court filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York, Mr. Giuliani “originally had an accountant who was helping, however, he had a change of heart and indicated that he no longer wished to help prepare the monthly operating reports.”
The purpose of the filing was to explain why Mr. Giuliani missed a deadline for filing an operating report.
The document said that Mr. Giuliani has contacted several certified public accountants and accounting firms but to no avail, as “no one seems interested in taking this assignment.”
“The Debtor’s reports are fairly straight forward as the Debtor’s sole source of income is mainly from his social security and whatever little bit of money comes in from his radio show and podcast,” the court filing stated, referring to Mr. Giuliani as the debtor. “Any additional monies used to supplement the Debtor’s income comes from money in his exempt IRA.”
He hosts “The Rudy Giuliani Show” on 77WABC radio.
Mr. Giuliani served as mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001.
Near the end of his tenure, terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. He was widely praised for his response in the wake the attacks and came to be known as “America’s Mayor.”
In 1985, Mr. Giuliani was famous for using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act to prosecute 11 members of the mafia in what was called the Mafia Commission Trial. He prosecuted the heads of the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families, ending their decades-long reign of organized crime.
No Longer ‘America’s Mayor’
Mr. Giuliani now faces his own RICO charges in Georgia for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the 2020 election.In April, a federal judge upheld a jury’s decision in a separate case that Mr. Giuliani must pay $148 million in damages to two election workers—Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss—in Fulton County, Georgia. A federal judge found him liable for defamation after he claimed the two women committed voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, a claim which Mr. Giuliani maintained.
Mr. Giuliani alleged that Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss removed ballots from suitcases hidden underneath the tables after the counting ended on election night.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office initiated an investigation in which the FBI, as well as the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, found that “there was no evidence of fraud” and explained the suitcase of ballots by stating that the Fulton County Board of Elections had a process by which it stored ballot boxes underneath tables “to have them in a certain order to monitor and track ballots during the tabulation process so election workers would know where to begin the next day.”
“No evidence was provided to show that Freeman or Moss deviated from the established process,” the report stated.
In Arizona, state Attorney General Kris Mayes has recently indicted Mr. Giuliani and 17 co-defendants for allegedly conspiring to fraudulently declare former President Donald Trump as the winner in the state during the 2020 presidential election.
Chase Smith and Tom Ozimek contributed to this report.
