Rudy Giuliani claims Trump campaign owes him $2M in legal fees over election challenge
Embattled former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says the Trump 2020 campaign and the Republican National Committee still owe him $2 million in legal fees for challenging the former president’s election loss.
Giuliani, 79, said during a bankruptcy court hearing Wednesday that the former president asked him to spearhead legal matters for the campaign in November 2020 — the same month Trump lost to President Biden.
“Once I took over, it was my understanding that I would be paid by the campaign for my legal work and my expenses to be paid,” he told the Manhattan federal bankruptcy trustee overseeing his case from December, according to a report by Mediaite.
Over the course of several weeks, Giuliani — once known as “America’s Mayor” for his work in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — took aim at a number of election districts throughout the country where the results were close.
Giuliani said that when he stepped into the role, Trump “had a tremendous number of complaints” against him “that there had been fraud in the election.”
“He asked me to lead that effort,” he added, during the meeting where his creditors were present.
Giuliani said that he understood that he would be paid both legal fees and expenses but in the end he only recouped the latter. And while he couldn’t put an exact number on the legal fees he was owed, he pinned them around $2 million.
“When we submitted the invoice for payment, they just paid the expenses. Not all but most. They never paid the legal fees,” he said.
After, Giuliani told reporters outside Manhattan federal court — where he famously helped dismantle the Big Apple mob as a US Attorney in the 1980s — that he thought the meeting “was handled very very professionally. It reminded me of the old days, the way courts used to be.”
He said the trustee handling his case is “very thorough .. she asked all the right questions and I gave her all the information I had.”
“I have nothing to hide,” he added.
Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a whopping $148 million civil judgment against him for defaming Georgia two election workers by accusing them of committing voter fraud while counting ballots in Fulton County during the 2020 election.
When the case was filed in December Giuliani estimated his debts at between $100 million and $500 million, while he claimed to only have $10 million in assets.
In addition to the hefty civil judgment, he also has a mountain of legal debt of over $1.4 million, a $700,000 IRS tab and another $260,000 bill he owes the New York State tax authorities, according to filings.
Giuliani political advisor Ted Goodman said Giuliani “earned everything he has in life through honest hard work, unlike so many corrupt politicians who pursue office for the wrong reasons.”
“The American people are waking up to the abhorrent weaponization of our justice system for partisan political gain, and the fact that we are here today is just another example of this great injustice,” Goodman added.
Giuliani also has five other lawsuits pending against him, including ones filed by Hunter Biden and Dominion and a sexual assault suit by his former employee Noelle Dunphy.
Giuliani also faces racketeering charges alongside Trump in a criminal Georgia election fraud case.
Giuliani’s bankruptcy lawyer Gary Fischoff told The Post Thursday that the Giuliani’s claims he’s owed by the campaign would be hashed out in the bankruptcy proceeding.
Trump’s one-time personal lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen brought a lawsuit against the Trump Organization in 2019 claiming he was owed nearly $2 million in legal fees he incurred during various probes into the then-president.
That case settled for an undisclosed amount days before trial in July.
