Global Courant 2023-05-16 09:01:55
A woman who said she worked for Rudy Giuliani for the past two years of the Trump administration alleged in an extensive lawsuit that Giuliani, the former president’s personal attorney, had sold presidential pardons and detailed plans to overturn the 2020 election results. to make, discuss.
In a Complaint of 70 pages Filed in state court in New York on Monday, Noelle Dunphy said after Giuliani hired her in January 2019, he sexually assaulted and harassed her, refused to pay her wages and often made “sexist, racist and anti-Semitic remarks,” claiming adding that she had recordings of numerous interactions with him.
Dunphy, who is seeking $10 million in damages and damages, said Giuliani hired her for $1 million a year in addition to expenses and pro bono legal representation for a domestic violence case against a former partner. But after she was hired, Dunphy claimed, Giuliani kept her job “secret” and only paid her about $12,000 and reimbursed some of her business expenses, owing her $1,988,000 in unpaid wages. She said she was fired in January 2021.
Giuliani denied the allegations through a spokesperson.
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani unequivocally denies Ms. Dunphy’s allegations,” Ted Goodman said in a written statement. “Mayor Giuliani’s life in public service speaks for itself and he will pursue all available legal remedies and counterclaims.”
Rudy Giuliani at a press conference at the White House on September 27, 2020.Chris Kleponis/Polaris/Bloomberg via Getty Images file
Dunphy claimed in her lawsuit that Giuliani was talking about a presidential pardon. She said Giuliani claimed to have “immunity” and told “her he sold a pardon for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split.” The lawsuit did not suggest that a pardon was being sold.
Justin Kelton, Dunphy’s attorney, said on MSNBC that there is no recording of the pardon call. “We do expect it to be confirmed in other ways.” He noted that the complaint alleges another person was present at that conversation — who Kelton said was Lev Parnas, an associate of Giuliani — and that Dunphy’s lawyers would like to speak with Parnas about it.
A spokesman for former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.
Hours before leaving office in 2021, Trump pardoned 74 people and commuted the sentences of 70 others.
Giuliani, who has denied allegations that he himself applied for clemency, told Dunphy she could refer pardon seekers to him as long as they didn’t go through “the normal channels” of the Office of the Pardon Attorney because they would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, according to the lawsuit.
Dunphy also claimed that Giuliani glimpsed plans to overturn the election if Trump lost, telling her “that Trump’s team would claim that there was ‘voter fraud’ and that Trump actually won the election the lawsuit said.
Giuliani’s New York law license was suspended in June after a state appeals court ruled that he made “demonstrably false and misleading” statements about voter fraud in the 2020 election. He attempted to defend himself against other election-related claims from a Washington, D.C., attorney disciplinary committee in December, which said he “used his law license as a weapon” in a failed 2020 election fraud lawsuit.
Last year, lawyers for Giuliani were told he was the target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. The prosecutor has said in that case that the indictment decisions will be announced this summer.
CORRECTION (May 16, 2023, 12:01 AM ET): An earlier version of this article misrepresented the nature of some of the conversations Dunphy said he had with Giuliani. She claimed Giuliani said he was selling pardons and discussed plans to overturn the 2020 election, but did not say those comments were included.
Vaughn Hillyard contributed.
