{"id":1739673,"date":"2022-11-15T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739673"},"modified":"2022-11-15T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:18:17","slug":"feds-say-no-charges-for-giuliani-following-april-fbi-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-say-no-charges-for-giuliani-following-april-fbi-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Say No Charges for Giuliani Following April FBI Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeds-say-no-charges-for-giuliani-following-april-fbi-raid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739673&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/c19bff5f-8610-4702-9144-de722e78e538-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Back in April of last year, the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/20\/feds-seized-18-devices-during-raid-of-rudy-giuliani-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raided the offices<\/a> of Rudy Giuliani in New York City, seizing a total of 18 electronic devices, including phones and computers. They also seized the phone of one of Giuliani\u2019s close associates in Washington. The investigation was ostensibly focused on Giuliani\u2019s relationship with Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko and whether or not Lutsenko had been improperly causing trouble by feeding Rudy information about the Biden family\u2019s business dealings in his country. Whatever they found was brought before a grand jury that\u2019s been hearing all of the evidence for the past year. This week, however, the feds came back and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/14\/rudy-giuliani-avoids-indictment-in-nyc-feds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told a federal judge in Manhattan<\/a>\u2026 <em>never mind<\/em>. (NY Post)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rudy Giuliani won\u2019t face criminal charges in Manhattan, prosecutors revealed in a court filing Monday \u2014 a decision that comes more than a year after the FBI raided the ex-mayor\u2019s apartment and seized a <a id=\"reader.external-link.num-2\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/20\/feds-seized-18-devices-during-raid-of-rudy-giuliani-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trove of electronic devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An independent special master was appointed to review the seized material, and prosecutors and Giuliani\u2019s defense attorney have periodically submitted letters to keep a Manhattan federal court judge up to date on where the investigation stands.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, prosecutors wrote to let Judge Paul Oetken know criminal charges against Giuliani will not be coming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The prosecutors told the judge that there will be no charges against Giuliani forthcoming as a result of the grand jury\u2019s findings. Presumably, the matter is being dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Back when the original raids took place, Giuliania\u2019s attorneys protested the move, saying that their client was being treated \u201clike a terrorist or drug trafficker.\u201d It was also noted that the seizure of the devices likely violated attorney-client privilege. Giuliani denied any wrongdoing in the entire affair.<\/p>\n<p>That investigation must have come up pretty much entirely empty. After all this time and all of the files they must have gone through, if they could have come up with anything that had even a remote chance of sticking, don\u2019t you think they would have taken a shot at him?<\/p>\n<p>But this never looked like a case of \u201cseeking justice\u201d from the beginning. This was about generating the most corrosive headlines possible and finding a way to drag Donald Trump\u2019s name into the mix. Officials in New York from the Attorney General on down have been desperate to find something to pin on Trump since he was first elected as President. Since the last election, they have grown even more frantic, trying to find some sort of charge to stick on him that might disqualify him from running again. Their batting average from these fishing expeditions remains firmly stuck at zero to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye open for that sort of panic to ramp up further this week. Trump is expected to announce his next presidential campaign this evening from Mar-a-Lago (for better or worse). Only a decade ago, the idea of a person involved in multiple legal investigations jumping into a presidential race would have been unthinkable. Today, however, it\u2019s all part of the political circus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April of last year, the FBI raided the offices of Rudy Giuliani in New York City, seizing a total of 18 electronic devices, including phones and computers. 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