Given his current state, it’s easy to forget that Rudy Giuliani made a name for himself bringing down mobsters as a ferocious New York City prosecutor. He regularly wielded Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) charges to bring down gangsters, so it was particularly ironic to see Giuliani get slapped with those same charges in the Georgia election tampering indictment.
The RICO charges were an amusing bit of schadenfreude, and no one is enjoying that thrill more than the mobsters that Giuliani brought down during the less scandal-plagued days of his legal career.
Veteran mob lawyer Murray Richman told The Messenger that he’s “spoken to several of my clients” since Giuliani, former President Donald Trump and 17 co-defendants were charged with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
“You can quote me to say, ‘They’re f—— thrilled,’” Richman said Wednesday. “I don’t want to say the language, but they really ripped Rudy a new a——.”
However, the mobsters’ enjoyment of Giuliani’s demise is bittersweet. According to Richman, “half of these guys love Trump. They freaking love Trump.” But there’s nothing like a common enemy to form bonds. “All of them are almost unified in their position of hating f—— Rudy,” Richman added.
Another defense lawyer also chimed in with a similar reaction, and it turns out the legal community is also enjoying Rudy’s predicament.
“All of my clients who had the misfortune of being prosecuted by him are laughing now,” Jeffrey Lichtman told The Messenger. “As am I.”
It’s a true head-scratcher. Will the Old Fitz B-i-B line continue? Are we going to get a fall 2023 release, like… next month? How does this elusive bourbon taste? Will the average consumer even be able to find it?
Here’s one truism of elite bourbon, folks — never look a gift bourbon in the face. I think that’s how that saying goes in Kentucky. All that matters, really, is that we have a new Old Fitzgerlad B-i-B. That’s exciting! I was lucky enough to snag a bottle. So below, I’ll dive into what’s in the bottle and try and help you find one. Let’s dig in.
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Old Fitzgerald Botted-In-Bond Decanters always holds Heaven Hill’s wheated bourbon, which is made with a mash of 68% corn, 20% wheat, and 12% malted barley. That recipe harkens back to before the brand was part of the Pappy Van Winkle line at the old Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville. In this case, the bourbon went into the barrel in the spring of 2013 and was left for 10 years. In the spring of 2023, those barrels were batched and just proofed with that soft Kentucky limestone water before bottling in Heaven Hill’s bespoke decanters for the official 11th Old Fitz release.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose draws you in with lemon cake with a whisper of meringue next to honey Graham Crackers, winter spiced Nutella cut with orange oils, soft vanilla sheet cake, and this fleeting sense of Double Mint gum by way of a vanilla malt milkshake.
Palate: The palate is luscious and sweet with a sense of rum-soaked raisins covered in dark salted chocolate next to toffee rolled in almond and dipped in eggnog with a light moment of stewed cherry compote with whole clove, allspice, and cinnamon bark.
Finish: Those woody winter spices amp up through the finish with a deep dark cherry jam over lemon-kissed shortbread with plenty of real vanilla before a light sense of tobacco rolled with molasses softens the very end.
Bottom Line:
This is really good sipping whiskey. A little ice or water really drives the palate toward the vanilla/cherry creaminess with bitter winter spice barks leaning into espresso oils and more dark chocolate with a light leatheriness.
Ranking:
91/100 — This is a solid “A” whiskey that hits every note perfectly.
Where To Buy:
Here’s the rub. This is so highly allocated that you may never see it in the wild. That’s true of every Old Fitz Decanter release. These bottles go on the shelf at $500-$1,000 the second they come out. If you’re in a control state (where it has to be sold at MSRP) and there are any left (unlikely), then you might get lucky in a local lottery. But that’s being generous.
Then there’s the rarity of what comes next for this expression. This might be the last one. We simply don’t know and Heaven Hill isn’t letting that slip. These are always collectible but this might end up being the most collectible one since it was such a surprise/possible one-off. We just don’t know.
My advice is to try this at your favorite whiskey bar. I don’t know if I’d pay $1,000 for this bottle otherwise. I could be convinced to buy one for $300-$400 maybe but that’d be for a very special gift for someone very special. The holidays are right around the corner, after all.
When I got the last-minute invitation to attend this year’s Maha Festival in Omaha, Nebraska, one of my first thoughts was, “There’s a music festival in Nebraska?” The short and simple answer is “yes.” The better answer is “… and it’s awesome!”
Maha has called Omaha’s Aksarben Village home since 2011. The name was bizarre to me until I realized it’s literally “Nebraska” spelled backward. Flagged by a tall LOTR-inspired tower, the park is everything you’d think it to be in a major Midwest city. Beautifully landscaped grass welcomed the 12,000 attendees, an interior patch of trees shaded the park’s edge, and it was adjacent to plenty of local restaurants and businesses.
On the first day, the festival was a ripe 100 degrees with 90% humidity. I was sweating in places I didn’t know could sweat. That was unusual for Omaha (or so I was told) and the second day was mellower. I was greeted by a beautiful 80-degree summer day and a light breeze.
Aside from the two adjacent stages, attendees milled in an open-air space that featured a cooling, air-conditioned pop-up comedy and poetry tent, a Community Village featuring 19 nonprofit-led activities, and the NFM silent disco dancefloor, which kept hundreds of people dancing well into the late night after the stages closed.
PART II — The Music
As someone who regularly tours the electronic and jam band scenes, Maha Festival was a whole different scene for me. Did you know Omaha is home to one of the biggest hot spots for indie and hardcore? Neither did I. But it totally checks out considering Saddle Creek Records was founded here, bringing up notable national bands Bright Eyes, Spoon, Tokyo Police Club, Big Thief, and more.
Friday and Saturday each offered up their palette of sonic flavors, full of tasting nods to alternative, hardcore, and folk. After a heavy (and much-needed) rainstorm on Friday afternoon, the evening was filled with a horizon dusk-setting performance by Alvvays, who made attendees swoon with alternative dream pop renditions.
JENNA HYNEK
It was the closing night’s performance by Turnstile though that really shook things up. I’m not one to call a band “cool,” but that’s exactly what they were. Strolling onstage, the whispering indie tones of Alvvays were soon blown away by Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates’ infectious hardcore energy. Meg Mills – the group’s newest touring member – went into a full-fledged hair-flipping rock out throughout the whole set, shredding in what literally looked like Princess Peach’s best dress. It seemed as if the whole city came together to rage during this set. It was awesome.
Saturday was a whole different ball game. With the weather boasting a milder day, the festival was decorated with cheeky attendees ready for a full day of programming. Omaha Girls Rock made their annual mark on the Union Pacific Stage mid-afternoon, granting the opportunity to female city-bred youth to play the stage. The day continued to be decorated with a breezy and light concoction mixed with the heavenly vocals by Say She She, guitar ballads by Black Belt Eagle Scout, alternative anthems by Peach Pit, and the soothing, twangy folk closing performance by Big Thief.
BEN SEMISCH
PART III — Nebraska’s Greenest Event
With half a million people living in the city of Omaha and an attendance of 12,000 people throughout the weekend, Maha Festival maintained its Zero Waste designation – an accolade the event officially achieved in 2022. By Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) standards, “zero waste” occurs when 90% or more of waste has been diverted from a landfill or incinerator via responsible composting or recycling. A counted 2,543 pounds of waste generated on-site — 94% of the total figure of 2,688 — was diverted from a landfill.
Attendees utilized 15 Zero Waste Stations throughout the park to separate their food scraps for composting, recycle their drink cans, and generally limit items going into the landfill bin. Even excess materials were reduced, with all beverage and food vendors using standardized compostable or recyclable service ware onsite and the free use of reusable water bottles stations that translated to over 9,600 plastic water bottles being saved from landfill, making Maha Festival the greenest event recorded in the state of Nebraska.
MIKE MACHIAN
“Sustainability is all about innovating and making continuous improvements,” Maha Festival Co-Director Rachel Grace said. “It’s great to know that together we are capable of diverting 94% of waste and leaving only two standard trash bins after a weekend-long festival. We’re inspired by those results and look forward to maintaining this initiative and exploring new areas of sustainability in the future.”
PART IV — Where To Stay
While most of my festival attendance has seen me sleeping in tents and hammocks, Maha Festival takes place right in the city of Omaha. Because of this, I traded my sweat-fueled camping attire for a more primed and proper stay at the city’s newest hotel, The Farnam.
Walking in, I was invited into a warm and upscale aesthetic as soon as I stepped foot into this place. The hotel is in a prime location within the Old Market District and is close to a lot of the city’s favorite restaurants, bars, and a short drive to Aksarben Village.
MIKALA LUGEN
Ever since my trip to Spain, I’ve had somewhat high standards when it comes to hotel rooms. I was pleasantly surprised by the room I stayed in. While I wasn’t lucky enough to secure one with a view of the city, the mood within the space exuded high-end finishes with a blend of Nebraska’s Midwest charm and industrial details. The bathroom was probably the best part of the whole room, with the walk-in shower big enough to fit a whole group (if that’s your thing). I enjoyed the big space for myself, including the raindrop shower head.
Aside from the room itself, the hotel’s Dynamite Woodfire Grill was an exceptional place to fuel up for the day ahead of the festival. The interactive menu was helpful to see exact photos of what you’d be ordering, which helped make my decisions pretty simple:
Hot Tea: I’m a tea drinker through and through. Usually, when I order tea I’ll be lucky enough to be asked what kind I want or given a small selection to choose from. Not here. The server came over with a beautiful display of teas all within a wooden box that tickled my fancy for the morning. The heaping serving of honey was perfect as well.
Avocado Toast: You’ll never get avocado toast the same way anywhere you go. Because of this, most places like to jack up the price (this is why we apparently can’t buy a house). While this was expensive, it did fill me up for most of the day. I loved the toppings of radish, grape tomatoes, goat cheese, and cilantro with poached eggs on top.
Bagel & Lox: If I see Lox on any breakfast menu, I usually get it. This came as a whole smorgasbord to put together yourself, which I appreciated since there’s a fine line of how much cream cheese you can use before you hit a saturation level. The capers were insane. Perfectly air-fried and crispy, I asked for a separate side of them to munch on like a bag of chips.
Buttermilk Pancakes: My sweet tooth kicked in on this one and I shamelessly ordered them with bananas and chocolate chips. The bananas were cooked into the pancakes with the chocolate chips spread on top, which I thought should’ve been the other way around. Either way, I couldn’t even finish them because they were so huge and rich.
PART V — What To Do Within A 10-Minute Uber Of The Event
With the festival not opening its gates until the early afternoon, there was plenty of time to do some sightseeing and food tastings around the city.
Just three blocks from The Farnam is Block 16, a delicious garden-to-table restaurant that stands for all things Omaha. Each dish is prepared with local, humanely raised, and preservative-free ingredients, something that makes my mouth water just by hearing those words. Make sure to get the Crab Rangoon fries – they were perfectly crispy with a perfect topping of the sweetened Asian creamy sauce.
MIKALA LUGEN
From there, take a short drive and park at the National Park Service Midwest Region building and be in two places at once on the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. The 3,000-foot-long bridge is suspended in the air by mere cables and connects Iowa and Nebraska over the Missouri River. It’s a somewhat cheesy tourist attraction, but who doesn’t want to snap a photo of being in two states at once?
MIKALA LUGEN
Round out your day at Coneflower Creamery in the Blackstone neighborhood. You’ll most likely encounter a line out the door when you arrive, but make sure you wait it out as it’s the number one ice cream shop on Yelp’s list of 100 best ice cream shops in the country. The ice cream uses local ingredients and handcrafts its cones and sprinkles. Yes, even the sprinkles. You’ll find the classic flavors of vanilla bean, cookies and cream, and dark chocolate, but it’s the signature flavors of Tart Cherry Crumble, Grandma Millie’s Lemon Bar, and Blackstone Butter Brickle that had me swooning.
MIKALA LUGEN
Maha Festival has already announced its move to Omaha’s renovated Heartland of America Park at The RiverFront for next year’s 16th gathering. The festival’s new home, which will have large green lawn space and ample room for Maha to expand to three music stages, twice as many Community Village booths, and thousands of additional guests, is scheduled to open later this month. It’s looking to be lit and definitely has me eager to get back to Nebraska.
For more information on Maha Festival, the plans for 2024, and future years at the new Heartland of America Park at the Riverfront and more, visit Maha’s website.
When I got the last-minute invitation to attend this year’s Maha Festival in Omaha, Nebraska, one of my first thoughts was, “There’s a music festival in Nebraska?” The short and simple answer is “yes.” The better answer is “… and it’s awesome!”
Maha has called Omaha’s Aksarben Village home since 2011. The name was bizarre to me until I realized it’s literally “Nebraska” spelled backward. Flagged by a tall LOTR-inspired tower, the park is everything you’d think it to be in a major Midwest city. Beautifully landscaped grass welcomed the 12,000 attendees, an interior patch of trees shaded the park’s edge, and it was adjacent to plenty of local restaurants and businesses.
On the first day, the festival was a ripe 100 degrees with 90% humidity. I was sweating in places I didn’t know could sweat. That was unusual for Omaha (or so I was told) and the second day was mellower. I was greeted by a beautiful 80-degree summer day and a light breeze.
Aside from the two adjacent stages, attendees milled in an open-air space that featured a cooling, air-conditioned pop-up comedy and poetry tent, a Community Village featuring 19 nonprofit-led activities, and the NFM silent disco dancefloor, which kept hundreds of people dancing well into the late night after the stages closed.
PART II — The Music
As someone who regularly tours the electronic and jam band scenes, Maha Festival was a whole different scene for me. Did you know Omaha is home to one of the biggest hot spots for indie and hardcore? Neither did I. But it totally checks out considering Saddle Creek Records was founded here, bringing up notable national bands Bright Eyes, Spoon, Tokyo Police Club, Big Thief, and more.
Friday and Saturday each offered up their palette of sonic flavors, full of tasting nods to alternative, hardcore, and folk. After a heavy (and much-needed) rainstorm on Friday afternoon, the evening was filled with a horizon dusk-setting performance by Alvvays, who made attendees swoon with alternative dream pop renditions.
JENNA HYNEK
It was the closing night’s performance by Turnstile though that really shook things up. I’m not one to call a band “cool,” but that’s exactly what they were. Strolling onstage, the whispering indie tones of Alvvays were soon blown away by Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates’ infectious hardcore energy. Meg Mills – the group’s newest touring member – went into a full-fledged hair-flipping rock out throughout the whole set, shredding in what literally looked like Princess Peach’s best dress. It seemed as if the whole city came together to rage during this set. It was awesome.
Saturday was a whole different ball game. With the weather boasting a milder day, the festival was decorated with cheeky attendees ready for a full day of programming. Omaha Girls Rock made their annual mark on the Union Pacific Stage mid-afternoon, granting the opportunity to female city-bred youth to play the stage. The day continued to be decorated with a breezy and light concoction mixed with the heavenly vocals by Say She She, guitar ballads by Black Belt Eagle Scout, alternative anthems by Peach Pit, and the soothing, twangy folk closing performance by Big Thief.
BEN SEMISCH
PART III — Nebraska’s Greenest Event
With half a million people living in the city of Omaha and an attendance of 12,000 people throughout the weekend, Maha Festival maintained its Zero Waste designation – an accolade the event officially achieved in 2022. By Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) standards, “zero waste” occurs when 90% or more of waste has been diverted from a landfill or incinerator via responsible composting or recycling. A counted 2,543 pounds of waste generated on-site — 94% of the total figure of 2,688 — was diverted from a landfill.
Attendees utilized 15 Zero Waste Stations throughout the park to separate their food scraps for composting, recycle their drink cans, and generally limit items going into the landfill bin. Even excess materials were reduced, with all beverage and food vendors using standardized compostable or recyclable service ware onsite and the free use of reusable water bottles stations that translated to over 9,600 plastic water bottles being saved from landfill, making Maha Festival the greenest event recorded in the state of Nebraska.
MIKE MACHIAN
“Sustainability is all about innovating and making continuous improvements,” Maha Festival Co-Director Rachel Grace said. “It’s great to know that together we are capable of diverting 94% of waste and leaving only two standard trash bins after a weekend-long festival. We’re inspired by those results and look forward to maintaining this initiative and exploring new areas of sustainability in the future.”
PART IV — Where To Stay
While most of my festival attendance has seen me sleeping in tents and hammocks, Maha Festival takes place right in the city of Omaha. Because of this, I traded my sweat-fueled camping attire for a more primed and proper stay at the city’s newest hotel, The Farnam.
Walking in, I was invited into a warm and upscale aesthetic as soon as I stepped foot into this place. The hotel is in a prime location within the Old Market District and is close to a lot of the city’s favorite restaurants, bars, and a short drive to Aksarben Village.
MIKALA LUGEN
Ever since my trip to Spain, I’ve had somewhat high standards when it comes to hotel rooms. I was pleasantly surprised by the room I stayed in. While I wasn’t lucky enough to secure one with a view of the city, the mood within the space exuded high-end finishes with a blend of Nebraska’s Midwest charm and industrial details. The bathroom was probably the best part of the whole room, with the walk-in shower big enough to fit a whole group (if that’s your thing). I enjoyed the big space for myself, including the raindrop shower head.
Aside from the room itself, the hotel’s Dynamite Woodfire Grill was an exceptional place to fuel up for the day ahead of the festival. The interactive menu was helpful to see exact photos of what you’d be ordering, which helped make my decisions pretty simple:
Hot Tea: I’m a tea drinker through and through. Usually, when I order tea I’ll be lucky enough to be asked what kind I want or given a small selection to choose from. Not here. The server came over with a beautiful display of teas all within a wooden box that tickled my fancy for the morning. The heaping serving of honey was perfect as well.
Avocado Toast: You’ll never get avocado toast the same way anywhere you go. Because of this, most places like to jack up the price (this is why we apparently can’t buy a house). While this was expensive, it did fill me up for most of the day. I loved the toppings of radish, grape tomatoes, goat cheese, and cilantro with poached eggs on top.
Bagel & Lox: If I see Lox on any breakfast menu, I usually get it. This came as a whole smorgasbord to put together yourself, which I appreciated since there’s a fine line of how much cream cheese you can use before you hit a saturation level. The capers were insane. Perfectly air-fried and crispy, I asked for a separate side of them to munch on like a bag of chips.
Buttermilk Pancakes: My sweet tooth kicked in on this one and I shamelessly ordered them with bananas and chocolate chips. The bananas were cooked into the pancakes with the chocolate chips spread on top, which I thought should’ve been the other way around. Either way, I couldn’t even finish them because they were so huge and rich.
PART V — What To Do Within A 10-Minute Uber Of The Event
With the festival not opening its gates until the early afternoon, there was plenty of time to do some sightseeing and food tastings around the city.
Just three blocks from The Farnam is Block 16, a delicious garden-to-table restaurant that stands for all things Omaha. Each dish is prepared with local, humanely raised, and preservative-free ingredients, something that makes my mouth water just by hearing those words. Make sure to get the Crab Rangoon fries – they were perfectly crispy with a perfect topping of the sweetened Asian creamy sauce.
MIKALA LUGEN
From there, take a short drive and park at the National Park Service Midwest Region building and be in two places at once on the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. The 3,000-foot-long bridge is suspended in the air by mere cables and connects Iowa and Nebraska over the Missouri River. It’s a somewhat cheesy tourist attraction, but who doesn’t want to snap a photo of being in two states at once?
MIKALA LUGEN
Round out your day at Coneflower Creamery in the Blackstone neighborhood. You’ll most likely encounter a line out the door when you arrive, but make sure you wait it out as it’s the number one ice cream shop on Yelp’s list of 100 best ice cream shops in the country. The ice cream uses local ingredients and handcrafts its cones and sprinkles. Yes, even the sprinkles. You’ll find the classic flavors of vanilla bean, cookies and cream, and dark chocolate, but it’s the signature flavors of Tart Cherry Crumble, Grandma Millie’s Lemon Bar, and Blackstone Butter Brickle that had me swooning.
MIKALA LUGEN
Maha Festival has already announced its move to Omaha’s renovated Heartland of America Park at The RiverFront for next year’s 16th gathering. The festival’s new home, which will have large green lawn space and ample room for Maha to expand to three music stages, twice as many Community Village booths, and thousands of additional guests, is scheduled to open later this month. It’s looking to be lit and definitely has me eager to get back to Nebraska.
For more information on Maha Festival, the plans for 2024, and future years at the new Heartland of America Park at the Riverfront and more, visit Maha’s website.
Michael Protzman, a demolition expert from Washington state, has been largely leading the cult via his Telegram channel in 2021, using a bastardized version of Jewish numerology, gematria, to predict world events. In November of that year, Protzman claimed that the deceased son of the late president would reveal himself to be alive, having fought a secret war against the sex cabal currently running the country’s government from the shadows. JFK, Jr. was supposed to reappear at the spot his father was shot and declare Donald Trump president once more. That obviously didn’t happen, and when Protzman died from injuries sustained from a dirt bike accident in June of 2023, the family and friends of members of his cult hoped the group would disband and their loved ones would come home.
Instead, a pre-teen girl whom Protzman named his protege when he was still alive has taken up his mantle.
“Tiny Teflon” was named as an administrator to Protzman’s Telegram account months before his death but she rarely posted and only appeared in videos with Protzman where the two would use gematria to make wild predictions using everything from Smurf movies to Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2. Following Protzman’s death, the young girl has stepped in, hosting live chats on his channel and broadcasting her “decodes” to his tens of thousands of followers.
“It’s worrying to see this young girl be put on a pedestal by a bunch of adults after the passing of Protzman,” a researcher who goes by the alias Karma and has been closely monitoring the group told VICE.
Tiny Teflon has already stated her intention to recruit more children into the cult saying, “I definitely think I’m gonna have more kids involved in this. I definitely want to help out with kids and teaching gematria, it’d be so much fun. Maybe they could share more code, because I don’t want to be talking the entire time when I do this show in the future. So I’ll definitely think of having kids share codes and teach what they know too.”
Karma says platforming the young girl, and using her to indoctrinate children into the group, is a worrying new development they intend to pay even more attention to. “I believe it’s too early to see where she will fit into the group dynamics right now, it’s definitely something I will be keeping a close eye on,” they told VICE. “For a group who have claimed to be all about ‘saving the children’ using a child to push your own beliefs is disgusting and disturbing.”
Michael Protzman, a demolition expert from Washington state, has been largely leading the cult via his Telegram channel in 2021, using a bastardized version of Jewish numerology, gematria, to predict world events. In November of that year, Protzman claimed that the deceased son of the late president would reveal himself to be alive, having fought a secret war against the sex cabal currently running the country’s government from the shadows. JFK, Jr. was supposed to reappear at the spot his father was shot and declare Donald Trump president once more. That obviously didn’t happen, and when Protzman died from injuries sustained from a dirt bike accident in June of 2023, the family and friends of members of his cult hoped the group would disband and their loved ones would come home.
Instead, a pre-teen girl whom Protzman named his protege when he was still alive has taken up his mantle.
“Tiny Teflon” was named as an administrator to Protzman’s Telegram account months before his death but she rarely posted and only appeared in videos with Protzman where the two would use gematria to make wild predictions using everything from Smurf movies to Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2. Following Protzman’s death, the young girl has stepped in, hosting live chats on his channel and broadcasting her “decodes” to his tens of thousands of followers.
“It’s worrying to see this young girl be put on a pedestal by a bunch of adults after the passing of Protzman,” a researcher who goes by the alias Karma and has been closely monitoring the group told VICE.
Tiny Teflon has already stated her intention to recruit more children into the cult saying, “I definitely think I’m gonna have more kids involved in this. I definitely want to help out with kids and teaching gematria, it’d be so much fun. Maybe they could share more code, because I don’t want to be talking the entire time when I do this show in the future. So I’ll definitely think of having kids share codes and teach what they know too.”
Karma says platforming the young girl, and using her to indoctrinate children into the group, is a worrying new development they intend to pay even more attention to. “I believe it’s too early to see where she will fit into the group dynamics right now, it’s definitely something I will be keeping a close eye on,” they told VICE. “For a group who have claimed to be all about ‘saving the children’ using a child to push your own beliefs is disgusting and disturbing.”
Rudy Giuliani appears to have officially gone broke for Trump. According to CNN, the former New York City mayor is drowning in legal fees stemming from various lawsuits and federal investigations related to his attempts to help Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Things have gotten so bad that Giuliani’s attorneys have had to beg for mercy in court, telling a judge on Monday that their client “cannot afford to pay” his mounting bills and needs an extension from the court in regard to certain pending civil cases.
“He is having financial difficulties,” Giuliani’s lawyers wrote in a filing earlier this month, adding that he hasn’t been paying his attorney fees on time. “These are a lot of bills that he’s not paying. I think this is very humbling for Mr. Giuliani.”
Those bills include nearly $90,000 in sanctions from a judge in one of his defamation cases, a $20,000 monthly fee to a data hosting site responsible for storing important records related to his federal cases, $57,000 in unpaid phone bills, $89,000 in legal bills for two Georgia election workers who had to litigate in order to clear their names after Giuliani implicated them in his “Stop the Steal” campaign and the standard attorney fees for his legal team. A team that will be even busier in the coming months after Giuliani was named in a 100-page indictment accusing Trump and his inner circle of interfering in Georgia’s state elections.
While Trump’s campaign is financing his own legal bills — and those of some of his co-conspirators — the only financial help Giuliani seems to have received from his former partner in crime came from a Trump Super PAC which footed a $300,000+ bill Giuliani owed to his data hosting company. That company now refuses to give the former mayor any more credit, and he’s so strapped for cash that he’s been forced to put his Manhattan apartment up for sale.
Rudy Giuliani appears to have officially gone broke for Trump. According to CNN, the former New York City mayor is drowning in legal fees stemming from various lawsuits and federal investigations related to his attempts to help Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Things have gotten so bad that Giuliani’s attorneys have had to beg for mercy in court, telling a judge on Monday that their client “cannot afford to pay” his mounting bills and needs an extension from the court in regard to certain pending civil cases.
“He is having financial difficulties,” Giuliani’s lawyers wrote in a filing earlier this month, adding that he hasn’t been paying his attorney fees on time. “These are a lot of bills that he’s not paying. I think this is very humbling for Mr. Giuliani.”
Those bills include nearly $90,000 in sanctions from a judge in one of his defamation cases, a $20,000 monthly fee to a data hosting site responsible for storing important records related to his federal cases, $57,000 in unpaid phone bills, $89,000 in legal bills for two Georgia election workers who had to litigate in order to clear their names after Giuliani implicated them in his “Stop the Steal” campaign and the standard attorney fees for his legal team. A team that will be even busier in the coming months after Giuliani was named in a 100-page indictment accusing Trump and his inner circle of interfering in Georgia’s state elections.
While Trump’s campaign is financing his own legal bills — and those of some of his co-conspirators — the only financial help Giuliani seems to have received from his former partner in crime came from a Trump Super PAC which footed a $300,000+ bill Giuliani owed to his data hosting company. That company now refuses to give the former mayor any more credit, and he’s so strapped for cash that he’s been forced to put his Manhattan apartment up for sale.
Episode three of The Last of Us is arguably the most acclaimed episode of TV to air this year. “Long, Long Time,” a.k.a. the one with Bill and Frank (things would be easier if every show used the same episode titling as Friends) is up for multiple Emmys, including Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman, respectively.
It’s also the episode that made Steven Spielberg reach out to showrunner Craig Mazin. “He was so complimentary about the whole show, but that episode in particular,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “It was so lovely, and I shared it with all the folks who worked on the show.”
But it’s another episode from season one that has the scene Mazin is most proud of.
“I have a certain place in my heart for a scene in the last episode that I ended up shooting because our director had gotten COVID. It’s the scene where Joel reveals to Ellie why he has that scar on his head. She says, ‘Time heals all wounds.’ And he says, ‘It wasn’t time that did it.’ I’m particularly proud of that scene because, first, it’s simple — it’s two people talking, which is my favorite.”
Mazin loves “the performance that Pedro [Pascal] and Bella [Ramsey] delivered in that moment.” To be fair, they’re great in every episode, but this scene was on “the third-to-last day of shooting, so it was the culmination of a calendar year of shooting and the culmination of the work that they had done with each other as professionals, but also as human beings.”
Episode three of The Last of Us is arguably the most acclaimed episode of TV to air this year. “Long, Long Time,” a.k.a. the one with Bill and Frank (things would be easier if every show used the same episode titling as Friends) is up for multiple Emmys, including Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman, respectively.
It’s also the episode that made Steven Spielberg reach out to showrunner Craig Mazin. “He was so complimentary about the whole show, but that episode in particular,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “It was so lovely, and I shared it with all the folks who worked on the show.”
But it’s another episode from season one that has the scene Mazin is most proud of.
“I have a certain place in my heart for a scene in the last episode that I ended up shooting because our director had gotten COVID. It’s the scene where Joel reveals to Ellie why he has that scar on his head. She says, ‘Time heals all wounds.’ And he says, ‘It wasn’t time that did it.’ I’m particularly proud of that scene because, first, it’s simple — it’s two people talking, which is my favorite.”
Mazin loves “the performance that Pedro [Pascal] and Bella [Ramsey] delivered in that moment.” To be fair, they’re great in every episode, but this scene was on “the third-to-last day of shooting, so it was the culmination of a calendar year of shooting and the culmination of the work that they had done with each other as professionals, but also as human beings.”
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