Giuliani's laptops, cell phones seized by feds

FPI / April 29, 2021

FBI agents seized several of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani's electronic devices after executing a search warrant at his Manhattan apartment on Wednesday.

According to Giuliani's attorney Robert Costello, seven FBI agents arrived at the apartment at 6 a.m. and remained for roughly two hours. The agents seized several electronic devices including laptops and cell phones.

"This is totally unnecessary," Costello told Fox News, claiming that the raid was done to "make him look like he's some sort of criminal."

Federal investigators have been aggressive in their pursuit of former President Trump and his supporters in the years before, during and after his administration. Critics have noted that the Department of Justice has given a pass to illegal activities involving prominent Democrats including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other key officials in the Barack Obama administration.

Giuliani served as United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983. He led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

In April 2018, Giuliani joined President Donald Trump's personal legal team, putting him in the crosshairs of the media-political Left and the Department of Justice which launched an offensive against the former president and his supporters in 2016 which did not end even when Team Biden took power earlier this year.

Fox News reported that the warrant was based on suspicion that Giuliani violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in lobbying on behalf of Ukraine.

The New York Times reported that investigators are looking into Giuliani's alleged role in the recall of Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, who was removed from her post in spring 2019.

The Department of Justice reportedly lifted its objection to the warrant after leftist Merrick Garland was confirmed as attorney general.

USAF Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (Ret) noted in a Telegram post:

"100% related to Hunter Biden's laptop situation. Giuliani's electronic equipment has reportedly been seized. I am concerned about his cell phone being seized. I can confirm to you all Rudy Giuliani will not be prosecuted. This is another Matt Gaetz situation. Nothing can stop what's coming."

NBC News reported in December that federal prosecutors for the SDNY (Southern District of New York) were actively working to seize Giuliani’s electronic communications.

"Gestapo thugs for the SDNY have been working with DOJ officials in D.C. about gaining access to Giuliani’s emails and they need Washington’s stamp of approval before they can ask a judge for a search warrant," Gateway Pundit noted at the time.

“This looks like prosecutorial harassment of a political opponent,” GOP strategist Ford O’Connell told The Washington Times. “It seems to me the Biden administration is punishing Trump supporters.”

Ross Baker, a politics professor at Rutgers University, called the raid on Giuliani “tit-for-tat politics in its fullest flowering.” Baker added he expects to see grumbles about the lack of door-busting against politicos on the Left.

“The raid on Giuliani’s home and office,” he said, “is certainly going to set up a cry for forced entry into Hunter Biden’s laptop and an investigation into Hillary’s emails to Anthony Weiner or George Soros.”

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