NYC feds scouring Rudy Giuliani’s electronics for info on Trump’s firing of U.S. ambassador: report Chris Sommerfeldt The feds who seized Rudy Giuliani’s electronic devices this week are especially interested in scouring them for communications about Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine whose 2019 firing came in response to a smear campaign orchestrated by the ex-mayor, according to a report Thursday. Former President Donald Trump axed Yovanovitch in May 2019, influenced by Giuliani and other right-wing allies who began spreading unsubstantiated rumors about her after she refused to participate in their effort to find political dirt in Ukraine about then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The Yovanovitch ouster became a key episode in Trump’s first impeachment.