Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday accused federal officials of “trying to frame me” – and alleged that he is under investigation because of former President Donald Trump’s work, according to a report.
In a particular Interview with fox news, Giuliani said that the officers targeting him are “beyond their rational thinking or ability to control their decency, and they have a serious, serious moral issue, driven by the Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“They are trying to frame me,” Gulliani said.
“They are trying to do something they can do in a crime, some technical violation, some mistake I made.”
He said: “They’ll take anything.”
Giuliani accused him of illegally leaking information about the investigation and called the FBI’s raid out of his control last week.
Giuliani said, “Usually a person who is a former Assistant US Attorney, a US Attorney, a Mayor, an Associate Attorney General, they usually receive a sub-person – their house is not raided”.
He said, “The only lawyers who are Donald Trump’s lawyers. I can’t think of another lawyer who’s been featured for Trump besides the lawyers.”
Giuliani said agents showed her a search warrant that “sought electronics in my apartment and alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, F.A.R.A., for failure to file as a foreign agent on behalf of a non-governmental Ukrainian officer.” told about. “
The official on the issue is former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko, named in a warrant used in the search for Giuliani’s Upper East Side apartment and his law office, a source familiar with the matter told The Post in the past Told the week.
Giuliani denied any wrongdoing, saying that because he worked for Trump, he sent any potential Ukrainian clients to fellow lawyer Victoria Toering, saying that “the safest thing to do is to do it.”
“Everything that Mr. Giuliani has said is absolutely true, however, none of the clients were ever retained by the firm,” said a spokeswoman for the Towning law firm.
“There was never any representation, no travel to Ukraine nor any preoccupation,” the spokesperson said.
The same day that Giuliani’s apartment and law office were raided, the FBI visited Tosing’s Washington, D.C.-area home and confiscated a cellphone, but left without searching the place, from events previously reported Familiarity was a source.
A spokesperson for his law firm also said at the time that “Ms. Towning was informed that he was not the target of the investigation. “
The Manhattan US Attorney’s Office did not immediately return a request for comment on Monday.
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