Role: Former US Attorney, Southern District of New York (1983-1989); former Mayor of New York City (1994-2001); 2020 Trump campaign personal lawyer and lead post-election strategist; orchestrator of the public-facing election-fraud propaganda campaign and key bridge figure to state-legislator pressure operations and the fake-electors plan.

Status: As of May 2026, Giuliani is one of the most legally compromised principal figures in the post-2020 electoral subversion plot. He has been disbarred in New York (July 2024) and DC (October 2023). He filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023 following the $148 million defamation judgment against him in Freeman v. Giuliani (the Georgia election workers case). He is indicted in Georgia (Fulton County, August 2023, RICO), Arizona (April 2024, fake-electors), and Nevada (December 2023, fake-electors). Federal: named (unindicted) Co-Conspirator 1 in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s August 2023 federal indictment of Trump (case dismissed November 2024). Multiple defamation judgments against him; assets being liquidated through bankruptcy. He continues to host a daily podcast / radio show and remains nominally active in MAGA media despite cognitive concerns publicly noted by multiple observers.

Role in Democratic Erosion / Jan 6

Public-Facing Narrative Architect

Giuliani was the principal public communicator of the post-2020 “stolen election” narrative. While Trump held rallies and Twitter, and Eastman/Chesebro produced legal theory, Giuliani:

• Made the public allegations
• Performed the press conferences
• Conducted the state-legislator hearings
• Provided continuous TV / radio / podcast presence
• Became the face of the “stolen election” claim

State-Legislature Pressure Operations

Giuliani coordinated parallel pressure operations in seven states:

• Designed to convince state legislators to certify alternate slates
• Provided seemingly-credible evidence to legislative committees
• Created political pressure on state Republican officials
• Generated fundraising contributions and base mobilization

Specific Defamatory Conduct

The Freeman v. Giuliani judgment ($148 million) addressed Giuliani’s specific December 3, 2020 accusations against Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss (Atlanta election workers). The accusations:

• Were made on a Georgia State Senate subcommittee with surveillance video
• Alleged the women were “passing USB drives like vials of cocaine”
• Identified by name, leading to harassment, threats, and the women being driven from their homes

Willard Hotel “War Room”

Giuliani was a central figure in the January 5, 2021 “war room” that included:

• Steve Bannon
• Boris Epshteyn
• Mike Flynn
• John Eastman
• Various other Trump operatives

The war room reportedly coordinated:

• January 6 protest logistics
• Pence pressure strategy
• State-by-state contingencies

Specific January 6 Conduct

• Spoke at the Ellipse rally morning of January 6
• Called for “trial by combat”
• Continued to speak with Trump throughout the day’s events
• Made phone calls to Republican senators after the Capitol breach (including misdialing Sen. Mike Lee) reportedly to ask for delay of certification

Continuing Public Position

Giuliani has continued to assert the 2020 election was stolen even after defamation judgment, bankruptcy, and disbarments. As of May 2026, he repeats the claims on his daily broadcasts.

Legal Status and Investigations

Criminal Cases

• Georgia (Fulton County): RICO indictment + multiple counts (August 2023); pleaded not guilty; case status frozen post-Willis disqualification
• Arizona (Maricopa County): Nine felony counts in fake-electors prosecution (April 2024); pretrial as of May 2026
• Nevada (Clark County): Indicted December 2023 in fake-electors prosecution
• Federal: Named Co-Conspirator 1 in dismissed Special Counsel federal case
• Various state ethics: Multiple

Civil Cases

• Freeman v. Giuliani (DC federal court): $148 million defamation judgment (December 2023)
• Dominion v. Giuliani: Pending defamation suit
• Smartmatic v. Giuliani: Pending defamation suit
• Capitol Police officer suits: Multiple; Giuliani named
• Hunter Biden v. Giuliani / Costello: Computer/data-theft suit (filed 2023)

Bankruptcy

• Chapter 11 filing, December 2023
• Asset liquidation ongoing
• Manhattan apartment sold; Florida condo sold

Bar Discipline

• New York: Disbarred July 2024
• DC: Disbarred October 2023
• Florida: Various proceedings

J6 Committee

• Testified August 2022
• Central focus of multiple Committee hearings

Watch

• Trump pardon possibility (federal case dismissed, but lingering federal exposure)

Personal-Public Interest Conflicts

Financial Holdings (Pre-Bankruptcy)

• Giuliani Partners: Consulting firm; revenues declining substantially through 2010s-2020s
• Real estate: Manhattan apartment (sold via bankruptcy); Florida condo (sold); various other holdings
• Speaking and broadcasting: Substantial income source 2020-2023
• Trump-related fundraising: Various PACs and legal-defense vehicles
• Loans / debts: Substantial pre-2020; expanded by post-2020 legal expenses

Bankruptcy Status (2023-)

• Massive defamation judgment makes ongoing financial recovery effectively impossible
• Asset liquidation will continue for years
• Future earning potential constrained by disbarments

Ukraine/Foreign Exposure

• 2018-2019 Ukraine work: Worked with Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman in Ukraine pressure campaign
• Federal investigation of Giuliani: Closed without charges (2022)
• No FARA registrations
• Unregistered foreign-agent concerns: Multiple instances; never formally charged

Regulatory Recusals and Waivers

• N/A — was Trump’s personal lawyer, not government employee

Family Business Entanglements

• Andrew Giuliani: Son; former Trump 1.0 White House staffer; failed 2022 NY gubernatorial campaign
• Ex-spouses: Divorces complicated finances; Judith Nathan (third wife) divorce 2018-2020
• Multiple family members affected by financial collapse

Specific Decisions Intersecting Personal Interests

• Continuing the “stolen election” narrative despite legal exposure: Giuliani’s public statements have continued long after they served any defensible legal-strategy purpose; have been principal driver of his ongoing legal liability
• Defamation judgment magnification: Each repeated assertion of debunked allegations has increased damages exposure
• Bankruptcy timing: Filed December 2023, approximately 1 month after Freeman judgment, in apparent attempt to limit recovery on judgment
• Continued broadcasting: Maintaining radio/podcast presence is one of few remaining income sources but exposes him to additional defamation liability

Key Connections

Direct Trump Network

• Donald Trump — Personal lawyer, longtime ally
• Donald Trump Jr. — Close
• Eric Trump — Close
• Mark Meadows — Coordinated through 2020-2021
• Boris Epshteyn — Bridge to Trump campaign legal team
• Stephen Miller — Coordinated

2020 Legal Team

• Sidney Powell — November 19, 2020 press conference; subsequent split
• Jenna Ellis — Senior advisor; subsequent guilty plea
• Joseph diGenova — Senior advisor
• Victoria Toensing — Senior advisor
• John Eastman — Coordinated
• Kenneth Chesebro — Coordinated

Willard Hotel “War Room”

• Steve Bannon
• John Eastman
• Mike Flynn
• Boris Epshteyn
• Bernie Kerik

Pre-2020 Ukraine Network

• Lev Parnas — Subsequently cooperator
• Igor Fruman — Subsequently convicted
• Yuri Lutsenko (Ukrainian official)
• Viktor Shokin (former Ukrainian prosecutor general)
• Joseph diGenova / Toensing — Coordinated

State-Level Pressure Targets

• Multiple Republican state legislators in PA, AZ, MI, GA, WI, NM, NV
• Brian Kemp (GA) — Pressure target
• Brad Raffensperger (GA) — Pressure target
• Doug Ducey (AZ) — Pressure target
• Various PA, MI legislators — Direct contact

Movement / Media

• WABC Radio (broadcasts)
• America’s Mayor Live (podcast)
• Various right-wing media

Adversaries / Targets

• Ruby Freeman — Defamation plaintiff
• Shaye Moss — Defamation plaintiff
• Dominion Voting Systems — Defamation plaintiff
• Smartmatic — Defamation plaintiff
• Hunter Biden — Computer/data theft plaintiff
• Special Counsel Jack Smith (federal case dismissed)
• Fulton County DA Fani Willis
• DC Bar / NY Bar — Disbarment authorities

Investigative trail pointers (public records)

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For Trump Supporters: Questions Worth Considering

Rudy Giuliani pioneered RICO prosecution as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York — he used it to take down the Mafia Commission. He became “America’s Mayor” after September 11. He is now disbarred in New York and DC, indicted in Georgia and Arizona and Nevada for his role in the fake-electors scheme, filed for bankruptcy after a $148 million defamation judgment for falsely accusing Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of fraud, and has been distanced from by Trump during the 2024 campaign. He has daily cognitive function concerns noted by multiple observers.

Here’s a question worth sitting with: Giuliani built his career prosecuting organized crime using RICO — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, which targets coordinated criminal conspiracies. He is now indicted under Georgia’s RICO statute — the same type of law he made famous — for his role in the coordinated post-2020 election subversion conspiracy. A man who spent his career prosecuting criminal conspiracies now faces criminal conspiracy charges. His 2020 activities — the state-legislator pressure operations, the fake-electors coordination, the specific false statements about election workers — are the conduct underlying those charges. Whatever you believe about the prosecutions, that trajectory is the result of choices he made. What happened between the 9/11 press conferences and the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference?

A second question about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss: These were two Georgia election workers — mother and daughter — who processed ballots as part of their jobs. Giuliani played selectively edited surveillance footage of them at a Georgia Senate subcommittee hearing and accused them of “suitcases of illegal ballots” and fraud. The allegations were false. A federal jury awarded them $148 million in damages. Ruby Freeman said she no longer feels safe using her name in public. Shaye Moss gained 60 pounds and stopped leaving her house. They were ordinary public employees doing their jobs during a pandemic election. What is the right word for what Giuliani did to them — and what is the right standard for accountability?

If the answer is yes, then that standard applies here too. Consistent standards for powerful people aren’t partisan. They’re the foundation of any system where laws matter more than who you know.

A second question: The people documented in these profiles hold, or have held, significant power over systems that affect your life — government programs, elections, law enforcement, the economy. When powerful people act in ways that benefit themselves or their allies rather than the public they serve, the costs fall on everyone. That’s true regardless of party.

You don’t have to agree with every political perspective represented in this knowledge base. You just have to ask whether the documented facts meet your own standard for how public officials should conduct themselves. That’s a question every citizen has the right — and the responsibility — to ask.

Sources

• State v. Trump et al., Fulton County RICO indictment (August 2023)
• State v. Boris Epshteyn et al., Maricopa County indictment (April 2024)
• State v. Giuliani et al., Clark County (Nevada) indictment (December 2023)
• Federal indictment (August 1, 2023) naming Giuliani as Co-Conspirator 1
• January 6th Select Committee Final Report (December 2022)
• Freeman v. Giuliani, DC federal court ($148M defamation judgment, December 2023)
• Dominion v. Giuliani (pending defamation)
• Smartmatic v. Giuliani (pending defamation)
• Giuliani Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings (December 2023-)
• Senate Judiciary Committee, “Subverting Justice”
• Politico, “The Decline and Fall of Rudy Giuliani” (multiple 2022-2024)
• Atlantic, “How Rudy Lost Everything” (multiple)
• New York Times, multiple investigative pieces 2020-2024
• Andrew Kirtzman, Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor (2022)
• NY Bar disbarment proceedings (2024)
• DC Bar disbarment proceedings (2023)
• Ruby Freeman / Shaye Moss J6 Select Committee testimony (June 21, 2022)

Cross-References

• djt-profile.md
• mark-meadows-profile.md
• john-eastman-profile.md
• kenneth-chesebro-profile.md
• boris-epshteyn-profile.md
• mike-roman-profile.md
• steve-bannon-profile.md
• sidney-powell-profile.md
• jenna-ellis-profile.md
• jan6-coup-plotters.md
• jan6-investigation-resources.md
• democratic-collapse-scenarios.md
• conflicts-of-interest-matrix.md

Accountability Cross-References (Added 2026-05-07)

Pardon Status: Pardoned second term 2025. Disbarred in New York.

Administration Role / Post-Jan 6 Status: Pardoned; no formal appointment.

See also:

• accountability/trump-pardons.md
• accountability/j6-figures-in-trump-administration.md
• accountability/jan6-coup-plotters.md