Note this is Giuliani associates with a small ‘a’, not Giuliani himself or Giuliani Partners, LLC. That said, Giuliani did associate with some shady characters, so he’s got a lot of smoke around him. Hopefully he was smart enough to not participate in any of their schemes. But as my grandmother told me when I was hanging around with that little scoundrel Scotty down the street, “you shall be judged by the company you keep”.
“...Giuliani did associate with some shady characters,...”
I suspect anyone involved in politics or business in NYC “.. associates with some shady characters,...”