A former Watergate prosecutor based in Miami may have a big say in whether Rudy Giuliani complies with a subpoena from lawmakers conducting impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives.
Giuliani has tapped Miami-based veteran attorney Jon A. Sale, of counsel with Nelson Mullins, to represent him before the congressional inquiry into whether President Donald Trump improperly pressured Ukraine’s president for a political favor.
“This subpoena is very complex because it raises a lot of issues — including privilege and constitutional issues — so it requires serious analysis,” Sale said in a brief telephone interview Tuesday afternoon. “There’s a lot of work involved here.”
A former New York University law school classmate of Giuliani, Sale was a junior prosecutor during the Watergate probe and is often described as the dean of the white-collar defense bar in South Florida.
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The real question here is why didn't Trump hire Sale instead of Rudy from day one. Rudy is an over the hill gas bag who is drowning in debt due to his ongoing divorce war. I am a big Trump supporter but it is kind of sad to see Rudy every night on Fox throwing a temper tantrum.
ReplyDeleteTrivia challenge. Sale was partners in the 1980's with another white collar star. Name the firm- three named partners are in the name.
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ReplyDeleteI am a big Trump hater, but objectively, Rudy has been very good for Trump. That's because Rudy is very Trump-like. He is like a character in a reality series. He can make wild, unsubstantiated allegations, he can contradict himself, even in the same interview, and his antics muddy the water so much, it's tough for ordinary people to follow and discern truth from fiction or straight out lies. And nobody really calls him out on it because they just write it off as just Rudy being Rudy. I don't think you can blame Rudy because Trump really believes what he said during his campaign that he could walk down 5th Avenue, shoot someone dead, and get away with it.
"And nobody really calls him out on it because they just write it off as just Rudy being Rudy."
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Sonnet, Bierman, Shohat
ReplyDeleteRudy was talking crazy about a civil lawsuit alleging Congress is conspiring to violate civil rights. Surely that couldn't be a Sale idea, right?
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ReplyDeleteDead on balls accurate.
I was thinking of Sonnet Sale and Kuhene
ReplyDeleteSSK PA with attorneys tucker delao and barzee:-)
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ReplyDeleteNEAL SONNETT (not Sonnet).
BEN KUEHNE (not Kuhene).
You two must have gone to the Donald Trump school for spelling. Today Trump tweeted about building a MOOT around his wall on the border and putting alligators and snakes in the MOOT.
Denigrating Giuliani is terribly inappropriate. As a neurologist for many years, I can tell you that he is demonstrating certain tell-tale signs of dementia. Maniacal presentation with short term memory issues is part of the sequelae of dementia.
ReplyDeleteI was not denigrating him as much as (reluctantly) praising him. Or at least noting that in a role where you have to fill a 24hr news cycle and attempt to defend the indefensible, turn accusations on their heads so you can accuse the accuser, muddy the waters of veracity, spout Orwellian double-speak, do as he is told regardless of how unethical and unsavory and do it all in a halfway entertaining manner, then Rudy has done a good job. There are many Trump followers who still view him as America's Mayor and any attacks on him as being unfair. A real lawyer like Sale would not have had the same ratings.
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