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Rudy Giuliani, Victoria Toensing, Joseph diGenova and their Client are Traitors. ;)

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Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment and Office​

Prosecutors obtained the search warrants as part of an investigation into whether Mr. Giuliani broke lobbying laws as President Trump’s personal lawyer.​

April 28, 2021Updated 3:00 p.m. ET
The search warrants mark a major development in the long-running investigation against Rudy Giuliani.

The search warrants mark a major development in the long-running investigation against Rudy Giuliani.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Federal investigators in Manhattan executed search warrants early Wednesday at the home and office of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the investigation said.
The investigators seized Mr. Giuliani’s electronic devices and searched his Madison Avenue apartment and his Park Avenue office at about 6 a.m., two of the people said.
The execution of search warrants is an extraordinary action for prosecutors to take against a lawyer, let alone a lawyer for a former president. It was a major development in the long-running investigation into Mr. Giuliani and a remarkable moment in his long arc as a public figure.
As mayor, Mr. Giuliani won national recognition for steering New York through the dark days after the Sept. 11 attacks, and earlier in his career, he led the same U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that is investigating him now, earning a reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor who took on organized crime and corrupt politicians.
In recent years, however, his image has been sullied by his effort to help Mr. Trump to dig up dirt in Ukraine on President Biden’s son and Mr. Trump’s repeated attempts in court to overturn the results of the 2020 election with baseless claims of widespread fraud.
Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert J. Costello, called the searches unnecessary because his client had offered to answer prosecutors’s questions, except those regarding Mr. Giuliani’s privileged communications with the former president.
“What they did today was legal thuggery,” Mr. Costello said. “Why would you do this to anyone, let alone someone who was the associate attorney general, United States attorney, the mayor of New York City and the personal lawyer to the 45th president of the United States.”
F.B.I. agents on Wednesday morning also executed a search warrant at the Washington-area home of Victoria Toensing, a lawyer close to Mr. Giuliani who had dealings with several Ukrainians involved in seeking negative information on the Bidens, according to people with knowledge of that warrant, which sought her phone.
Ms. Toensing, a former federal prosecutor and senior Justice Department official, has also represented Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch under indictment in the United States whose help Mr. Giuliani sought.
Federal investigators executed search warrants early Wednesday at Mr. Giuliani’s home and office, both on the East Side of Manhattan.

Federal investigators executed search warrants early Wednesday at Mr. Giuliani’s home and office, both on the East Side of Manhattan.Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
The federal authorities have largely focused on whether Mr. Giuliani illegally lobbied the Trump administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, who at the time were helping Mr. Giuliani search for damaging information on Mr. Trump’s political rivals, including Mr. Biden, who was then a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The United States attorney’s office in Manhattan and the F.B.I. had sought for months to secure search warrants for Mr. Giuliani’s phones and electronic devices.
Under Mr. Trump, senior political appointees in the Justice Department repeatedly sought to block such a warrant, The New York Times reported, slowing the investigation as it was gaining momentum last year. After Merrick B. Garland was confirmed as Mr. Biden’s attorney general, the Justice Department lifted its objection to the search.
While the warrants are not an explicit accusation of wrongdoing against Mr. Giuliani, their execution shows that the investigation has entered an aggressive new phase. To obtain a search warrant, investigators must persuade a judge they have sufficient reason to believe that a crime was committed and that the search would turn up evidence of the crime.
Spokesmen for the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment.
The investigation of Mr. Giuliani grew out of a case against two Soviet-born men who aided his mission in Ukraine to unearth damaging information about Mr. Biden and his son Hunter, who was on the board of an energy company there. Prosecutors charged the men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, with unrelated crimes in 2019 and a trial is scheduled for October.
While investigating Mr. Giuliani, prosecutors have examined, among other things, his potential business dealings in Ukraine and his role in pushing the Trump administration to oust the American ambassador to the country, a subject of testimony at Mr. Trump’s first impeachment trial.
As he was pressuring Ukrainian officials to investigate the Bidens, Mr. Giuliani became fixated on removing the ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch, whom he saw as an obstacle to his efforts. At the urging of Mr. Giuliani and other Republicans, Mr. Trump ultimately ousted Ms. Yovanovitch.
As part of the investigation into Mr. Giuliani, prosecutors have explored whether he was working not only for Mr. Trump, but also for Ukrainian officials or businesses who wanted the ambassador to be dismissed for their own reasons, according to people briefed on the matter.
Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, it is a federal crime to try to influence or lobby the United States government at the request or direction of a foreign official without disclosing it to the Justice Department.
Prosecutors have scrutinized Mr. Giuliani’s dealings with Yuriy Lutsenko, one of the officials who helped Mr. Giuliani and his associates in their efforts to tar Mr. Biden while also urging them to work to get the ambassador removed.
Among other things, prosecutors have examined discussions that Mr. Giuliani had about taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in apparently unrelated consulting business from Mr. Lutsenko, which resulted in a draft retainer agreement that was never executed.
Mr. Giuliani has said he turned down the deal, which would have involved helping the Ukrainian government recover money it believed had been stolen and stashed overseas.
As the investigation heated up last summer, prosecutors and F.B.I. agents in Manhattan were preparing to seek search warrants for Mr. Giuliani’s records related to his efforts to remove the ambassador, but they first had to notify Justice Department officials in Washington, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Federal prosecutors must consult Justice Department officials in Washington about search warrants involving lawyers because of concerns that they might obtain confidential communications with clients. The proposed warrants for Mr. Giuliani were particularly sensitive because Mr. Trump was his most prominent client.
Career Justice Department officials in Washington largely supported the search warrants, but senior officials raised concerns that they would be issued too close to the election, the people with knowledge of the matter said.
Under longstanding practice, the Justice Department generally tries to avoid taking aggressive investigative actions within 60 days of an election if those actions could affect the outcome of the vote.
The prosecutors in Manhattan tried again after the election, but political appointees in Mr. Trump’s Justice Department sought once more to block the warrants, the people with knowledge of the matter said. At the time, Mr. Trump was still contesting the election results in several states, a legal effort that Mr. Giuliani led, those officials noted.
Wednesday was not the first time that a personal lawyer for Mr. Trump was the subject of multiple search warrants. In 2018, the F.B.I. searched the offices of Mr. Trump’s previous personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, who later pleaded guilty to campaign finance and financial crimes. Mr. Trump called that raid a “disgraceful situation” and an “attack on our country in a true sense.”
Kenneth P. Vogel contributed reporting.
 
@blbronco still think the Russian collusion never happened huh? 🤣


Not sure why you choose to @ me on this, however, will you kindly point me to where this involves Russian collusion? Ukraine for this investigation is not the same as the Russia, Russia, Russia ordeal. So, yes, I think the Russian collusion is still unimpressive. Investigate all you want. Coming out of NYC, it does not get instant credibility from me as NYC is going to go after Trump until he dies. If he is outright guilty of this stuff, charge him, convict him, and punish him as appropriate. Same with all politicians.
 
Not sure why you choose to @ me on this, however, will you kindly point me to where this involves Russian collusion? Ukraine for this investigation is not the same as the Russia, Russia, Russia ordeal. So, yes, I think the Russian collusion is still unimpressive. Investigate all you want. Coming out of NYC, it does not get instant credibility from me as NYC is going to go after Trump until he dies. If he is outright guilty of this stuff, charge him, convict him, and punish him as appropriate. Same with all politicians.
Just the other day you said you still don’t believe it in a thread I was perusing. It made me laugh and stuck out in my head. Then today’s events happened. Made me laugh harder. Do a little research into who Dimitry Firtash is and while you are at it look into who Paul Manafort gave the Trump campaigns internal polling to in 2016. Hint he was just sanctioned for his role in the 2016 election interference, he is is a GRU agent. His name is Konstantin Kilimnik. Here is a little taste.

Kilimnik was born on 27 April 1970[10] at Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Soviet Union.[11] Fluent in Russian and Ukrainian before his service in the Soviet Army,[11]he became fluent in Swedish and English as a linguist[11] at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation,[12][13] which trained interpreters for the Soviet Union's Main Intelligence Directorate, known as the GRU.[14] He was a translator in the Soviet Army and worked closely with its GRU.[11] He took Russian citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[14] He worked in Sweden as an interpreter for a Russian arms dealer.[14] In Moscow, Kilimnik then worked for the International Republican Institute (IRI) from 1995 to early 2005,[11][14] an organisation which receives funding from the United States government to support democracy.[15] According to anonymous sources, when applying for his position with the IRI, he responded to the question about how he learned English by stating that the "Russian military intelligence" taught him and he became known among Moscow political operatives as "Kostya, the guy from the GRU".[11] In 1997, he traveled to the United States using a Russian diplomatic passport.[10] He was dismissed in the early 2000s after the Federal Security Service's chief gave a speech discussing internal private meetings at the Institute. Kilimnik himself told The New York Timesthat he had been dismissed for having freelanced as an interpreter for Manafort, which was effectively confirmed by a spokesman for the IRI who said such an action ran counter to the organization's code of ethics.[14][15] In the Mueller Report, a former colleague is reported to have told the FBI that Kilimnik was fired because of his strong links to Russian intelligence services.[10]
 
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Just the other day you said you still don’t believe it in a thread I was perusing. It made me laugh and stuck out in my head. Then today’s events happened. Made me laugh harder. Do a little research into who Dimitry Firtash is and while you are at it look into who Paul Manafort gave the Trump campaigns internal polling to in 2016. Hint he was just sanctioned for his role in the 2016 election interference, he is is a GRU agent. His name is Konstantin Kilimnik. Here is a little taste.

Kilimnik was born on 27 April 1970[10] at Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Soviet Union.[11] Fluent in Russian and Ukrainian before his service in the Soviet Army,[11]he became fluent in Swedish and English as a linguist[11] at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation,[12][13] which trained interpreters for the Soviet Union's Main Intelligence Directorate, known as the GRU.[14] He was a translator in the Soviet Army and worked closely with its GRU.[11] He took Russian citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[14] He worked in Sweden as an interpreter for a Russian arms dealer.[14] In Moscow, Kilimnik then worked for the International Republican Institute (IRI) from 1995 to early 2005,[11][14] an organisation which receives funding from the United States government to support democracy.[15] According to anonymous sources, when applying for his position with the IRI, he responded to the question about how he learned English by stating that the "Russian military intelligence" taught him and he became known among Moscow political operatives as "Kostya, the guy from the GRU".[11] In 1997, he traveled to the United States using a Russian diplomatic passport.[10] He was dismissed in the early 2000s after the Federal Security Service's chief gave a speech discussing internal private meetings at the Institute. Kilimnik himself told The New York Timesthat he had been dismissed for having freelanced as an interpreter for Manafort, which was effectively confirmed by a spokesman for the IRI who said such an action ran counter to the organization's code of ethics.[14][15] In the Mueller Report, a former colleague is reported to have told the FBI that Kilimnik was fired because of his strong links to Russian intelligence services.[10]
I think this is toon town. Got caught last time and trying to make a better name to hide behind. Hence the shadow is born lol.
 
Just the other day you said you still don’t believe it in a thread I was perusing. It made me laugh and stuck out in my head. Then today’s events happened. Made me laugh harder. Do a little research into who Dimitry Firtash is and while you are at it look into who Paul Manafort gave the Trump campaigns internal polling to in 2016. Hint he was just sanctioned for his role in the 2016 election interference, he is is a GRU agent. His name is Konstantin Kilimnik. Here is a little taste.

Kilimnik was born on 27 April 1970[10] at Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Soviet Union.[11] Fluent in Russian and Ukrainian before his service in the Soviet Army,[11]he became fluent in Swedish and English as a linguist[11] at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation,[12][13] which trained interpreters for the Soviet Union's Main Intelligence Directorate, known as the GRU.[14] He was a translator in the Soviet Army and worked closely with its GRU.[11] He took Russian citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[14] He worked in Sweden as an interpreter for a Russian arms dealer.[14] In Moscow, Kilimnik then worked for the International Republican Institute (IRI) from 1995 to early 2005,[11][14] an organisation which receives funding from the United States government to support democracy.[15] According to anonymous sources, when applying for his position with the IRI, he responded to the question about how he learned English by stating that the "Russian military intelligence" taught him and he became known among Moscow political operatives as "Kostya, the guy from the GRU".[11] In 1997, he traveled to the United States using a Russian diplomatic passport.[10] He was dismissed in the early 2000s after the Federal Security Service's chief gave a speech discussing internal private meetings at the Institute. Kilimnik himself told The New York Timesthat he had been dismissed for having freelanced as an interpreter for Manafort, which was effectively confirmed by a spokesman for the IRI who said such an action ran counter to the organization's code of ethics.[14][15] In the Mueller Report, a former colleague is reported to have told the FBI that Kilimnik was fired because of his strong links to Russian intelligence services.[10]

Looks like an interesting wikipedia page. Point still stands. An aggressive investigation was performed, and failed to provide a kill-shot. I have no doubts that Trump has shady dealings. He is a total sleaze bag. Still, I am unmoved on the Russia-gate media storm. The OP is still about Ukraine and what may have transpired about Biden’s kid. Still not the same.
 
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I think this is toon town. Got caught last time and trying to make a better name to hide behind. Hence the shadow is born lol.
I think you’re loony toons. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!
 
Looks like an interesting wikipedia page. Point still stands. An aggressive investigation was performed, and failed to provide a kill-shot. I have no doubts that Trump has shady dealings. He is a total sleaze bag. Still, I am unmoved on the Russia-gate media storm. The OP is still about Ukraine and what may have transpired about Biden’s kid. Still not the same.
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@blbronco still think the Russian collusion never happened huh? 🤣
A hyper-partisan DOJ is definitely something to celebrate!!!!
Just the other day you said you still don’t believe it in a thread I was perusing. It made me laugh and stuck out in my head. Then today’s events happened. Made me laugh harder. Do a little research into who Dimitry Firtash is and while you are at it look into who Paul Manafort gave the Trump campaigns internal polling to in 2016. Hint he was just sanctioned for his role in the 2016 election interference, he is is a GRU agent. His name is Konstantin Kilimnik. Here is a little taste.

Kilimnik was born on 27 April 1970[10] at Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Soviet Union.[11] Fluent in Russian and Ukrainian before his service in the Soviet Army,[11]he became fluent in Swedish and English as a linguist[11] at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation,[12][13] which trained interpreters for the Soviet Union's Main Intelligence Directorate, known as the GRU.[14] He was a translator in the Soviet Army and worked closely with its GRU.[11] He took Russian citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[14] He worked in Sweden as an interpreter for a Russian arms dealer.[14] In Moscow, Kilimnik then worked for the International Republican Institute (IRI) from 1995 to early 2005,[11][14] an organisation which receives funding from the United States government to support democracy.[15] According to anonymous sources, when applying for his position with the IRI, he responded to the question about how he learned English by stating that the "Russian military intelligence" taught him and he became known among Moscow political operatives as "Kostya, the guy from the GRU".[11] In 1997, he traveled to the United States using a Russian diplomatic passport.[10] He was dismissed in the early 2000s after the Federal Security Service's chief gave a speech discussing internal private meetings at the Institute. Kilimnik himself told The New York Timesthat he had been dismissed for having freelanced as an interpreter for Manafort, which was effectively confirmed by a spokesman for the IRI who said such an action ran counter to the organization's code of ethics.[14][15] In the Mueller Report, a former colleague is reported to have told the FBI that Kilimnik was fired because of his strong links to Russian intelligence services.[10]
Oh geezus. Wikipedia? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You go, new person. Coming in hot with Wikipedia, y'all!!!
 
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