Why Federal Investigators Searched Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment

 

Why Federal Investigators Searched Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment

 

Interestingly, Federal investigators in Manhattan have executed a search warrant on Rudy Giuliani’s apartment as part of a probe into the former New York City mayor’s activities involving Ukraine, his attorney told NPR.

Robert Costello said the FBI conducted the raid at Giuliani’s apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan at around 6 a.m. and seized electronic devices. He said the search warrants are connected to an investigation into possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act tied to Giuliani’s Ukraine-related work.

The activities of the former mayor and prosecutor, who later became the personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump, was the focus of attention during Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020 related to the Ukraine scandal.

Giuliani also played a key role in amplifying falsehoods about the 2020 election and orchestrated many of Trump’s attempts to overturn the results. Those efforts led to Trump’s second impeachment trial after he left office.

The raid amounts to a dramatic change of fortune for a man who made his name as the top federal prosecutor in New York City, pursuing Wall Street insiders who broke the law for personal profit in the 1980s.

Two of Giuliani’s business associates have already been indicted on counts that include campaign finance violations and false statements.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are accused of illegally funneling foreign money to a U.S. congressman for help in ousting the woman who then was the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. They have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Parnas and Fruman also helped introduce Giuliani to influential people in Ukraine as he tried to dig up unflattering information in 2019 for use against now-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter as Biden was launching his presidential campaign.