Shopping With Rudy
Dear listeners,
Is Rudy Giuliani in serious trouble? He’s facing two lawsuits. One is for getting a supermarket employee arrested. The other is… well, it’s for a lot of stuff.
Ken and I discuss the prospects for ShopRite employee Daniel Gill’s lawsuit over Rudy crying “assault” over a tap on the shoulder. Gill’s claims against the NYPD aren’t likely to go far, but Rudy could be in more trouble. As for Noelle Dunphy, she has some pretty shocking claims about several areas of alleged misconduct, and we want to see what does (or doesn’t) come out in discovery to support them.
We also talk about Mark Pomerantz — the former Manhattan prosecutor who somehow took the Fifth when House Republicans tried to question him about the investigation into Donald Trump — and John Durham, whose own prosecutorial endeavors have wound down with a fairly underwhelming report. We talk about signs of activity in the Trump documents case that are maybe being over-read in the press, and about new infighting in Trump’s legal team.
And we talk about E. Jean Carroll’s other lawsuit — the one that’s still tied up in questions about whether Trump can be sued personally for statements he made about her while he was president — and what significance that lawsuit holds now that she’s already won a multimillion dollar judgment on closely related claims.
We hope you enjoy the episode. We will be off next week, but we look forward to returning with another episode in early June.
Best,
Josh
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Shopping With Rudy
As a Frenchman, I resent the 'flopping' comment. Brazilians and Politicians are much worse and a better analogy. :)
Since both you folks are West Coasters, you may need context for "America's Mayor" soubriquet after 9-11, when he was barely 40% as NYC mayor on 9-10.
Let's re-rake the table pre- 9-11...
~ Giuliani was all about receiving lobbyist dollars from entertainment/restauranteurs to revive the Times Square district.
[ASIDE - When growing up as NYC teen, Times Square was a wonderful learning experience for those of us wanting to walk in the footsteps of Holden Caufield and all the uncaring public houses not giving a fiddler's fuque about imbibers being age-18 in the 1960s.
Unfortunately, kids today wouldn't be able to do since "Catcher In The Rye" has probably been banned in 2/3rds of 'Merican states.]
~ "Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.” ~ Holden Caufield
~ My brother Dr. David Wood, the famous doctor to the homeless of Manhattan became a major anti-Rudy guy since the douche-in-chief's plan was to handle the homeless by simply moving them across the East River to Queens County.
Likewise, Dr. Dave (who was eventually at the scene of the Towers after he and his medical-bus driver went to the westside on the East Side, after seeing the second plane hitting the towers.
~ Not an important issue given important shrift was that Mayor Rudy made the "political" decision to unify all NYC public service agencies' communications in the Twin Towers, despite of all those agencies explaining to Giuliani that coalescing such communications going down simultaneously would be catastrophic.
~ RUDY'S THEN REALITY - Planes destroy the Twin Towers, the multiagency response teams not able to communicate because the communications central in the towers goes down; he steps forward and works the media in NYC, while "Cowboy-Up Americans" are all about 'we versus them."