A New York State judge this week ruled that Rudolph W. Giuliani must pay more than $1.3 million to lawyers who represented him in numerous criminal investigations stemming from his work for President Trump.
The ruling by the judge, Arthur F. Engoron, was the latest of many legal and financial misfortunes to befall Mr. Giuliani, the 81-year-old former New York City mayor. In the past two years alone, he has been indicted and accused of seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election; filed for bankruptcy under the strain of legal bills; been disbarred in New York and Washington and, last month, suffered a fractured vertebra in a New Hampshire car crash.
The Tuesday ruling by Justice Engoron came in a particularly painful proceeding for the former mayor. It was the result of a 2023 lawsuit filed by Mr. Giuliani’s former lawyer and friend, Robert J. Costello, and Mr. Costello’s former law firm, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron.
Neither Mr. Costello nor a spokesman for the firm immediately responded to a request for comment on Justice Engoron’s ruling, nor did a spokesman or a lawyer for Mr. Giuliani.
Mr. Costello represented Mr. Giuliani in various criminal investigations related to Mr. Giuliani’s work as a personal lawyer to President Trump. They included an inquiry by Manhattan federal prosecutors, another by Georgia state prosecutors and a third by Washington prosecutors looking into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Mr. Costello also defended Mr. Giuliani in more than 10 lawsuits, and represented him when his license to practice law was challenged in New York and Washington. In August 2023, The New York Times reported that Mr. Giuliani, with Mr. Costello’s assistance, was seeking to recover legal fees that he believed Mr. Trump owed him.
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