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leftynyc

(26,060 posts) Thu May 3, 2018, 02:36 PM May 2018

Rudy's "storied" career

He did some good stuff, took out some mobsters and some white collar asshole. But in light of his whining today about wiretapping a lawyer, I thought this would be fun to post:

The Princeton/Newport case wasn’t the only one of Giuliani’s high-profile convictions that was eventually overturned. After Giuliani left the US attorney’s post in 1987, four of his white-collar cases were quashed, a nigh-unprecedented string of reversals. “You cannot read the appellate decisions without being disturbed by the way some of these cases were prosecuted,” journalist James Traub wrote in an otherwise sympathetic account at the time. One such questionable tactic: wiretapping a suspect’s defense attorney.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/rudy-giuliani-trump-cabinet-secretary-state-mayor/

Lots of good stuff in that piece.

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