Rudolph Giuliani, former gestapo head of New York City and failed human being, is still showing why he should be considered for Donald Trump’s team of advisers.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered that he be given more detail about former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and another lawyer's representation of a Turkish gold trader charged with conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran.
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan said he needed extra information to ensure that conflicts of interest did not prevent Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey from effectively representing Reza Zarrab, who is in U.S. custody.
Reza Zarrab is a dual national of both Iran and Turkey who is being accused of conspiring to use U.S. banks to launder money for the Iranian government while they were facing economic sanctions. Giuliani and Michael Mukasey were recently hired by the gold dealer Zarrab.
The hiring of Giuliani and Mukasey may present a conflict of interest because their firms, Greenberg Traurig LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, also represent some of the banks alleged to be victims in Zarrab’s case, prosecutors said in court documents disclosing the lawyers’ involvement. In a filing late Monday, the prosecutors said they were told Giuliani and Mukasey are being hired "to explore a potential disposition of the criminal charges in this matter."
And here’s a clearly unrelated fact.
Mukasey’s son Marc has been rumored as a leading candidate to succeed former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired earlier this month after refusing to step down. Bharara brought the charges last year against Zarrab, whose arrest roiled relations between Turkey and the U.S.
Zarrab is also famous for his roll as the flash point figure in corruption charges that Turkish prosectors pursued against him before being shut down by the Erdogan government. Here’s another piece of unrelated news: disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn sits in a tree with Turkey talking about love, marriage and baby carriages.