Attorney for Giuliani’s estranged wife claims that ‘pro bono’ work for Trump is a case of ‘SIDS — sudden income deficit syndrome’: report

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, once hailed as “America’s Mayor” and a northeastern Rockefeller Republican who appealed to many Democratic voters, has become a strident GOP partisan in recent years — relentlessly defending President Donald Trump and insisting that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was a sham. And Giuliani’s work on behalf of Trump, according to the Daily Beast’s Victoria Bekiempis, was discussed in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, when an attorney argued that his “pro bono” work for the president is coming at the expense of his estranged wife, Judith Nathan.

Nathan filed for divorce in April 2018, and the 75-year-old Giuliani’s finances were discussed during a divorce-related hearing on Thursday — when Bernard Clair, an attorney representing Nathan, argued that Giuliani’s work on Trump’s behalf is meant to lead the courts to “believe he somehow doesn’t have money.”

Clair, according to the Beast, told the Manhattan courtroom, “Not only is he working pro bono for the president, for this individual, but it’s costing him money. Not only does he work for free, but all of his expenses, every time he goes down to Washington, D.C., every time he travels for the president…. it comes out of his own pocket.”

View the complete July 26 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.