Rudy Giuliani has spent the last few years facing a lengthy parade of investigations, allegations, and lawsuits that has resulted in the suspension of his law license in New York and Washington and made him the target of a criminal probe in Georgia for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election's results. But even by those standards, the new wide-ranging civil allegations against the personal attorney for former president Donald Trump, unveiled in a lawsuit filed on Monday, are deeply disturbing.
In brief, Noelle Dunphy alleges that over two years when the former mayor employed her in "secret," Giuliani engaged in "unlawful abuses of power, wide-ranging sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct." Amid other more salacious details, one that stands out is a claim that Giuliani at one point asked Dunphy "if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split." In a statement to NBC News, a Giuliani spokesman said the former mayor "unequivocally denies the allegations." But between Trump's abuse of the pardon power and Giuliani's constant scramble for a buck, there's a definite thread worth tugging on in the accusation.
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