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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has been served with a lawsuit filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), days after attorneys for Swalwell said they were having trouble tracking down the Alabama Republican, Brooks and a Swalwell representative confirmed. The lawsuit accuses Brooks and other allies of former President Trump of provoking the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Brooks tweeted on Sunday that he had been served with the suit and claimed members of "Swalwell's team" broke into his home and served the lawsuit to his wife. Speaking to CNN, Philip Andonian, an attorney for Swalwell, shot back at Brooks's...

A federal judge agreed to appoint the same special master from the government's case against Michael Cohen in 2018 to review whether materials seized from the homes and offices of Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing are subject to attorney-client privilege....

HONG KONG (AP) -- The first wife of Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho, dubbed "the No. 1 beauty in Macau," has died, newspapers reported Sunday. She was 80. Clementina Angela Leitao Ho died at home Saturday after suffering from a long illness, newspapers quoted a statement from Ho's office as saying. Calls to his company went unanswered Sunday. Born into a wealthy Portuguese family in Macau, the young Leitao, whose father was one of the most prominent lawyers in the small gambling enclave, was famed for her beauty. Leitao and Ho were married in 1942, long before his monopoly...

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have been investigating whether several Ukrainian officials helped orchestrate a wide-ranging plan to meddle in the 2020 presidential campaign, including using attorney Rudy Giuliani to spread misleading claims about President Joe Biden and tilt the election in former President Donald Trump’s favor, people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times on Thursday. The criminal investigation, which began during the final months of the Trump administration and has not been previously reported, underscores the federal government’s increasingly aggressive approach toward rooting out foreign interference in American electoral politics. Much of that effort is focused...

Andrew Giuliani has dreams of turning next year’s gubernatorial race into another “Fight of the Century.” The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will announce Tuesday that he’s officially running for the Republican primary in 2022 — and is confident he can not only knock out veteran GOP competition but then go on to take out scandal-ridden Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Why do federal authorities always get a pass? Why is massive police reform legislation, such as the bill recently passed in the Illinois General Assembly, not being applied to federal law enforcement as well? Couched in the usual rhetoric of police accountability, the massive Illinois state statute is, in-fact, just another legal mechanism for the radical leftists currently running Chicago to further penalize or criminalize the police. Windy City police do not believe that oversight over the department and the discipline process is fair or just to begin with. Instead, the statute is another means to build the coffers of...

Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) advised former President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to "keep quiet" and "stay off of TV" in an interview Tuesday with Hugh Hewitt. "If I were their lawyer, I would tell all them to keep quiet and not do anything that can help this government make a case against you," Christie said. "And that’s just the basics of criminal defense law. And it’s more difficult for public figures like Mayor Giuliani or President Trump, but first and foremost, if I were their lawyer and that’s the basis you’re asking me this question,...

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon revealed some massive news on Monday about Rudy Giuliani and his upcoming efforts. During a segment on his podcast War Room, Bannon said it is “not by accident” that the deep state announced a probe on Giuliani for "FARA violations just as the investigations into the theft of the 2020 election are about to hit pay dirt."

As a federal investigation into Rudolph W. Giuliani escalates, his advisers have been pressing aides to former President Donald J. Trump to reach into a $250 million war chest to pay Mr. Giuliani for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Mr. Trump’s behalf. The pressure from Mr. Giuliani’s camp has intensified since F.B.I. agents executed search warrants at Mr. Giuliani’s home and office last week, according to people familiar with the discussions, and comes as Mr. Giuliani has hired new lawyers and is facing his own protracted — and costly — legal battles. Federal prosecutors...

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said he was “disappointed” in Attorney General Merrick Garland’s approval of a search warrant for the FBI to raid Rudy Giuliani’s apartment. Dershowitz said, “I would have thought that Merrick Garland, who I strongly supported when he was nominated for the Supreme Court, and who I remember as a student at Harvard Law School, a quite brilliant student … but I would have thought that he would have said — the way Barr said, ‘No, you can’t go for a search warrant. If you want to get a subpoena, okay,’ and then there’s...

The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News walked back their reporting about FBI's communication with President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani regarding Russia. The Washington Post was the first to report on Thursday that Giuliani was warned that he was the target of a Russian influence campaign last year. The newspaper, citing people familiar with the matter, also reported that One America News (OANN) was given similar warning. But the Post issued a correction on Saturday saying that it removed assertions that Giuliani and OANN had received such warnings. "An earlier version of this story, published Thursday,...

Rudolph W. Giuliani says that the FBI secretly spied on his Apple iCloud account beginning in late 2019 when he was having regular messaging conversations with his client, President Trump, during House impeachment proceedings. Mr. Giuliani said the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan on Thursday informed his attorney, Robert Costello, that covert wiretapping took place. Mr. Giuliani, once the mob-fighting top prosecutor in New York and then the city’s mayor, said an assistant U.S. attorney made the disclosure because the operation will have to be detailed in court. The penetration happened under the Trump administration and then-Attorney General William P....

The Washington Post and New York Times issued major retractions on Saturday after initially reporting that Rudy Giuliani and One America News were warned by the FBI they were targets of a major Russian disinformation campaign during the 2020 presidential election season. The Post reported on Thursday the FBI warned Giuliani in late 2019 "he was the target of a Russian influence operation aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage President [Joe] Biden." The Post also reported that OAN received a similar warning. The warning was part of an extensive effort by the bureau to alert members of Congress and...

The FBI raid this week of former President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani violated the "spirit and the letter of the Constitution," because it permitted prosecutors to read privileged information without permission, according to legal expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax TV. "This was just a misuse of the search and seizure power," Dershowitz told "Saturday Report." "Initially it was turned down; now it was approved, both by a judge and by the attorney general of the United States, so it wasn't lawless action, but I believe that they acted inconsistently with both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution...

Without arguing their creative legal theory in a court case with due process, adversarial arguments, and cross examination, the Biden administration was once again able to confiscate the legal documents, which are supposed to be protected by attorney-client privilege, of his chief opponent Trump. All he needed was a corrupt, partisan judge like Kimba Wood. Wood made it possible confiscate the privileged documents of Trump's previous lawyer Michael Cohen with nothing but the creative legal theory of a campaign finance violation that was never argued in a real court case. This was after the partisan "judge" officiated George Soros' wedding....

This week a contingent of armed FBI agents raided the home of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) to confiscate an array of electronic devices. Giuliani called the raid "unnecessary. I would've voluntarily turned over all the devices requested. Oddly, the one device they refused to confiscate was a copy of the hard drive of Hunter Biden's laptop. I pointed out that my perusal of the contents found evidence of several crimes." FBI Director Christopher Wray brushed aside Giuliani's objections, saying that "a narrative in which he can be portrayed as cooperating with our investigation was unsatisfactory. As...

The FBI this week raided a Homer, Alaska couple’s home looking for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop. 12 agents broke down the Hueper’s front door with their guns drawn, separated the husband and wife, cuffed them, seized their electronics and interrogated them for 3 hours. Advertisement - story continues below After a 3 hour interrogation, it turned out it was a case of mistaken identity. The Hueper’s just happened to be on vacation in DC the same week Trump spoke at the Ellipse on January 6 and decided to attend the rally, however they never entered the Capitol building. Marilyn Hueper said...

Former New York City Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani issued a long statement in response to the FBI’s Gestapo-like raid on his home earlier this week, and everyone needs to read and absorb it and what the implications of it mean for all of us. It’s important for everyone to understand that the FBI is not an actual law enforcement agency anymore, if indeed it ever was. Today, it is just a tool used by corrupt politicians to enforce and protect the interests of the deep state and the priorities of the Democrat Party. One of the most disturbing...

He is right. This is a test of the Department of Justice and FBI, which have been corrupted to the point where our democracy is in deep peril. The highly publicized early morning raid on the apartment and office of Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of the 45th President of the United States, was an outrage. Thanks to a 10+ minute interview last night on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the nation’s highest-rated cable news program, we have a better grasp of the dimensions of the scandalous behavior of the Department of Justice. SNIP Here are some major issues that he highlighted:...

Michael Cohen, formerly a personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, predicted Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that Rudy Giuliani would do what he did and turn on Trump. Cohen said, “I told him was that Donald Trump doesn’t care about anyone or anything, that he will be the next one to be thrown under the bus, and that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”