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Federal Investigators Execute Search Warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment
NY Times ^ | April 28, 2021 | William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman

Posted on 04/28/2021 9:21:56 AM PDT by BeauBo

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

Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant on Wednesday at the Upper East Side apartment 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 matter said.

One of the people said the investigators had seized Mr. Giuliani’s electronic devices.

Executing a search warrant is an extraordinary move for prosecutors to take against a lawyer, let alone a lawyer for a former president, and it marks a major turning point in the long-running investigation into Mr. Giuliani.

The federal authorities have been largely focused on whether Mr. Giuliani illegally lobbied the Trump administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, who at the same time were helping Mr. Giuliani search for dirt on Mr. Trump’s political rivals, including President Biden, who was then a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The United States Attorney’s office in Manhattan and the F.B.I. had for months sought to secure a search warrant for Mr. Giuliani’s phones.

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 President Biden’s attorney general, the Justice Department lifted its objection to the search.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boom; booms; giuliani; lawfare; rudy; searchwarrant; sovietstyle; trumplawyer
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1 posted on 04/28/2021 9:21:56 AM PDT by BeauBo
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“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 a Ukrainian energy company.”

Just finding out what evidence there is on Hunter, and who might be talking, so any witnesses can be eliminated.


2 posted on 04/28/2021 9:23:47 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo
White Terror
3 posted on 04/28/2021 9:24:09 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BeauBo

Still think everything will be ok? There are zero consequences for anything the left does. That must change, pronto.


4 posted on 04/28/2021 9:24:27 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: BeauBo

Ten percent for the big guy and billions from China isn’t worth investigating but this is.


5 posted on 04/28/2021 9:25:19 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: BeauBo

And so it begins.

Our country is over. No one can survive an anal exam based on Federal Statutes. Everyone is guilty of a felony of some kind. Everyone.


6 posted on 04/28/2021 9:25:33 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BeauBo

This is nothing but interference of justice. We are a lawless nation now when democrats can prosecute republicans for seeking justice.


7 posted on 04/28/2021 9:25:44 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: BeauBo

If his electronics are not at the bottom of the lake from the trump administration then I’m speechless. A new computer and phone is loose change for him. I don’t care if he’s innocent. Get rid of everything so they can’t misguide his agenda.


8 posted on 04/28/2021 9:26:16 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: bk1000

“There are zero consequences for anything the left does.”

Again I say that we have to find a way to make the judicial system critters more afraid of us than they are the left. I just don’t know how.


9 posted on 04/28/2021 9:26:22 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: BeauBo

Obviously, it is against the law to find out criminal information regarding the Bidens. Everyone should be aware of that fact by now.


10 posted on 04/28/2021 9:27:07 AM PDT by CFW
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To: BeauBo

The fascist Witch Hunt continues.


11 posted on 04/28/2021 9:27:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: napscoordinator

Except there is also a law against that.


12 posted on 04/28/2021 9:29:04 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: BeauBo

One has to wonder. Is Himmler really dead? Or does he have a close relative in Washington.


13 posted on 04/28/2021 9:30:06 AM PDT by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: BeauBo

Nice country you’ve got there....be a shame if something happened to it! Oh wait...


14 posted on 04/28/2021 9:30:41 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BeauBo

Same story later posted at https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3954537/posts

Cross ref in case both threads become populated with replies


15 posted on 04/28/2021 9:32:06 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: old curmudgeon

Really? I can’t take my phone and throw it in a lake? Who knew. Oops. It slipped out of my hand.


16 posted on 04/28/2021 9:34:11 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: Seruzawa
-- Everyone is guilty of a felony of some kind. Everyone. --

Guilt isn't necessary. The process can be a substantial punishment. Government very much abuses its power, and does so with impunity.

And ... it gets to say "rule of law" the whole time.

17 posted on 04/28/2021 9:34:26 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: BeauBo

And when administrations change, there will be investigations of the individuals on the Biden team. How they don’t see that is a mystery.

Back and forth we go into a banana republic.

Not sure if we can save us.


18 posted on 04/28/2021 9:35:17 AM PDT by Principled (Biden is illegitimate and whatever he says can be ignored. )
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To: bk1000

Not going to change until President MAGA Trump is reelected come 2024.
At least the Resident has left him a blue print of what he can do come his 2nd term in office! Fire everyone this time and no listening to anyone in the deep state!


19 posted on 04/28/2021 9:35:59 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: BeauBo

Feds go after Rudy and leave Hunter, Bill & Hill alone?
Is there anything federal that isn’t horse crap?


20 posted on 04/28/2021 9:37:08 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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