Federal agents raid Rudy Giuliani’s NYC apartment
Federal agents raided former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment and office on Wednesday morning, two law-enforcement sources briefed on the matter told The Post.
The agents executed a search warrant and seized electronic
devices from both locations, one source said.
The moves were tied to an investigation into Giuliani’s
dealings in Ukraine, according to reports.
A resident of Giuliani’s Upper East Side building on East
66th Street said the doorman described greeting the agents at 6 a.m. and
letting them pass when they displayed a search warrant.
The raid marked an escalation in the feds’ probe of the
former mayor, who is being investigated over whether he illegally lobbied
former President Donald Trump on behalf of officials and oligarchs in Ukraine,
according to the New York Times.
The Ukrainian officials were also reportedly helping
Giuliani dig up dirt on Trump’s political rivals, including then-Democratic
candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
The warrant sought communications between Giuliani and other
people including political columnist John Solomon, who had communicated with
Giuliani about the effort, the former mayor’s lawyer told the Wall Street
Journal.
Lawyer Robert Costello told the Journal that the warrant
outlined an investigation into the suspected violation of overseas lobbying
regulations.
Costello also called the raids “legal thuggery,” saying that
he’d repeatedly offered in vain to answer questions from investigators if they
agreed to detail the subject of their probe.
“It’s like I’m talking to a wall,” he told the Journal.
Investigators in the Justice Department had tried for months
to secure the search warrant, according to the Times.
Prior to President Biden taking office, Trump appointees at
the DOJ had tried to block approval of the warrant, the Times said.
A spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern
District of New York declined to comment.
A call to Giuliani’s cellphone went straight to voicemail
Wednesday afternoon.
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