Rudy "Toot Toot" Giuliani, call your attorney -- again (hope it's Sydney Powell):
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.
This utterly, morally corrupt leader of the "Stop the Steal" racket, who's being sued for $1.3 billion for his defamatory efforts, and who told the January 6 insurrection crowd "Let's have trial by combat," needs to spend as much of the rest of his life as possible broke and in the slammer. May the legal system that he's used to create an image of a law- and- order guy now take him down -- hard.
BONUS: Oh, the irony --
Just think: If Billy Barr hadn't worked so hard to protect Rudy, Rudy could be enjoying post-pardon life right now...
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 28, 2021
UPDATE: The home of Giuliani associate Victoria Toensing has also been searched by the FBI. She's the wife of attorney Joseph diGenova, another "Stop the Steal" grifter.
UPDATE II: Adam Silverman has a deeper dive into the national security implications of the raids today.
(Photo: Scene from "Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm," featuring Toot Toot searching his pants, but probably not for electronic devices.)
