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By Jan Wolfe
(Reuters) â Federal agents searched Rudolph Giulianiâs Manhattan apartment and office, advancing a criminal investigation into the Ukrainian dealings of Donald Trumpâs former lawyer.
Here is a summary of what is publicly known about the investigation and what trouble it could spell for Giuliani and the former president:
Why did agents search Giulianiâs home and law office?
Giuliani led an effort to dig up dirt on now-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine before the 2020 election and pushed Trump to remove then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
Prosecutors are investigating whether Giuliani illegally lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, while also serving as Trumpâs personal lawyer.
April 29, 2021 9:08 p.m.
Rudy Giuliani gave his first interview on Thursday following the FBI searches of his home and office, telling Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the DOJ had “spied on me.”
During a sprawling interview, the former lawyer to the former president spun a yarn in which the DOJ was engaged in a multi-year, politically motivated prosecution. Prosecutors are reportedly actually zeroing in on allegations that the Trump attorney may have violated foreign lobbying laws as he pushed for dirt on President Biden while working with Ukrainian oligarchs.
Giuliani said twice during the show, however, that he had a way out: since exiting the New York City mayoralty in 2001, he had inserted into his contracts with various foreign businessmen and governments a provision that declared that, whatever he was doing for them, it wasn’t lobbying.
Investigators are trying to determine whether Giuliani was acting solely on Trump’s behalf when he pushed for the ambassador’s firing or if he may also have acted at the behest of Ukrainians, who wanted her gone for their own reasons
By Syndicated Content
By Jan Wolfe
(Reuters) â Federal agents searched Rudolph Giulianiâs Manhattan apartment and office, advancing a criminal investigation into the Ukrainian dealings of Donald Trumpâs former lawyer.
Here is a summary of what is publicly known about the investigation and what trouble it could spell for Giuliani and the former president:
Why did agents search Giulianiâs home and law office?
Giuliani led an effort to dig up dirt on now-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine before the 2020 election and pushed Trump to remove then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
Prosecutors are investigating whether Giuliani illegally lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, while also serving as Trumpâs personal lawyer.