Posted on 09/02/23
| News Source: The Hill
Rudy Giuliani, who used his career as a prosecutor to jumpstart a reputation as a tough-on-crime mayor, is now facing charges in one of the country’s most high-profile indictments.
Giuliani, who famously used the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to crack down on the mob as a prosecutor, is being prosecuted on RICO charges himself in Georgia.
Once known as “America’s Mayor” for his response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Giuliani could be jailed over his efforts to keep former President Trump in power despite losing an election.
His surrender in Georgia last week on 13 charges over his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results marks a new low for Giuliani, who has struggled to keep up with mounting legal bills.
It’s a dramatic fall for a man who was briefly a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 but has seen his reputation fall while aiding another GOP leader.
“America’s mayor should have been in the lede of his obituary, but instead it probably won’t appear until the fourth or fifth paragraph, and in an ironic juxtaposition,” said Ken Frydman, who served as Giuliani’s press secretary during his 1993 mayoral campaign.
“Rudy’s demise, given the peak that he reached — the abyss that he has fallen into is unimaginable,” Frydman said. “But here it is.”