A thrice-divorced, hair-dye-addicted alcoholic who can’t get his clients to pay his bills is reportedly in dire financial straits as he faces his first criminal indictment on top of a dumpster-full of civil suits that could cost him more than one billion dollars.
According to CNN, Rudy Giuliani is facing $90,000 in court sanctions, along with a court-mandated $20,000 per month electronic records storage fee, a $15,000 records search fee and a separate $57,000 judgment against his company for unpaid phone bills. He ran up a $320,000 past due account with the company preserving his electronic records before the Trump SuperPAC picked up the tab because the records were needed in other cases.
Besides the Fulton County criminal indictment that dropped Monday, Giuliani is facing defamation lawsuits from both Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems that go into the billions of dollars. And because he admitted to the facts of the case brought in Shae Moss and Ruby Freeman’s lawsuit–admissions which, by the way, may be used as evidence in other cases–the judge in the case just has to rule if Ruby’s lies about the pair are protected political speech. (Yeah, I know. I chuckled as I typed it.)
So just as Rudy is facing increasing legal fees on his criminal and civil cases. With his account with the records in arrears for so long, the vendor, Trustpoint, will no longer extend credit to Giuliani, so he’ll have to pay the search fees for future lawsuits in cash up-front.