Trump Stiffed Giuliani, Georgia Co-Conspirators

Several of former President Donald Trump’s allies, including Rudy Giuliani, who are now facing criminal charges for helping him try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, were never paid by the Trump political operation for work they did in late 2020, Brian Schwartz reported for CNBC.

Photo Insert: Giuliani speaks at a Trump rally.

The failure to pay Giuliani and his team came up last week in a private interview between special counsel Jack Smith’s team and Bernard Kerik, a Giuliani associate, according to an attorney for Kerik.

Trump and his allies raised $250 million off false claims that were peddled nationwide by people including Giuliani and Kerik, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said.

That money is now helping Trump pay a small army of lawyers defending him against criminal charges.

Other lawyers who spearheaded Trump’s frenzied effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election also tried to collect payment from Trump but the defeated GOP candidate did not pay any of them, testimony to congressional investigators and Federal Election Commission records showed.

Trump and Giuliani had a handshake agreement that Giuliani and his team would get paid by Trump for their post-election work, said Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Kerik.

But the Trump campaign and affiliated committees did not honor that pledge, campaign finance records showed. Giuliani’s companies were only reimbursed for travel and not the $20,000 a day he requested to be paid.

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