Trump Financial Disclosure Values Rudy Giuliani's Legal Services At... Zero

Getting impeached: PRICELESS.
By ELIZABETH DYE
Aug 3, 2020 at 4:13 PM

Rudy Giuliani’s price is above rubies. His wise legal counsel cannot be bought for love or money. How can you possibly put a dollar value on THIS?

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Nevertheless, those sticklers at the Office of Government Ethics suggested that the hundreds of hours of legal services provided to the president gratis by America’s Looniest Mayor are worth something and must be declared as a gift on his financial disclosure. After all, Giuliani spent weeks gallivanting around Europe trying to prove that Joe Biden was corrupt. He pressured the Justice Department to open an investigation into allegations that Joe Biden stole $5.3 billion dollars from Ukraine, and he plastered the State Department with affidavits from Eastern European politicians who would testify to Biden’s perfidy if only they could get a visa to enter the United States. The president’s free lawyer was so successful that he managed to get his client impeached, which is no mean feat!

And yet, according to Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure, the value of Rudy’s services is priceless, and thus doesn’t have to be disclosed.

Although we did not believe and do not believe that any pro bono publico counsel is reportable as a “gift,” at the request of OGE, we note that as has been widely reported in the media, Rudy Giuliani provided such pro bono publico counsel in 2018 and 2019. In any event, Mr. Giuliani is not able to estimate the value of that pro bono publico counsel; therefore, the value is unascertainable.

And indeed Greenberg Traurig had no more use for Mr. Giuliani’s legal services, terminating him in 2018 after he went on Sean Hannity’s show and seemed to claim it was his standard practice to pay hush money settlements out of an escrow account without telling the client first, and then billing it out as a “retainer.”

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