Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:36 am
I would say that it *is* too "good" to be true, for a few reasons. First of all, when asked whether they had shared any of this information with prosecutors, since Giuliani has been a subject of multiple criminal investigations, they wouldn't say. Second, they claim to have tapes, but none have been released. Thirdly, a picture that is actually inserted in the text of the Complaint is a screencap from the Borat sequel. That is not serious lawyering.
In a column titled "Rudy's Very Bad Week," Marcy Wheeler
agrees, writing: "I’m sure many of the claims made in this suit are true, but packaged up as it is, it feels too convenient, just like the 'Hunter Biden' 'laptop.'" She thinks the filing indicates Dunphy is trying to interest the FBI in her testimony and/or trying to threaten Giuliani or his associates into arranging a quick settlement. Dunphy claims to have had access to Giuliani's emails for many months in 2020-2021, and she claims that Giuliani never officially made her his employee or had her sign a non-disclosure agreement. And so:
The FBI may be seeking this information. Several plaintiffs, including Freeman, definitely are (Dunphy also helpfully includes a summary of the property he owns, including five homes). And nothing prevents her from sharing it with them unless Rudy retroactively claims she was an employee, covered by non-disclosure obligations, through this entire period, with the $2 million payment she claims he promised her to go along with that nondisclosure agreement.
Not just Rudy — but also the entire Trump family (have I mentioned there’s an election coming up?), Rupert Murdoch and some of his star current and former employees, as well as a bunch of lawyers who’ve been involved in some shady shit — all of them have an incentive to retroactively make her status as an employee official, so that she won’t release these communications.
Many of these very same emails would have been unavailable to the FBI under a privilege claim, but unless Dunphy is an employee, then she can hand them over because Rudy waived privilege over them. I can’t decide whether I’m more interested in seeing the emails that might show Jay Sekulow alerted Trump to the false claims that were made on his behalf during the Russian investigation, or the ones that show Hannity was about to board a plane to meet with a mobbed up Russian asset in support of Trump’s 2020 election bid. But if I know of specific emails I’d like to see, then the people named in paragraph 96 surely do as well.
I am also reminded of Lev Parnas, who teased that he had a bunch of information about Giuliani, Trump, and the Ukraine scandal.
