N.Y. judge orders Rudy Giuliani to pay $1.36M in back legal fees
A New York judge on Wednesday ordered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to pay $1.36 million in legal fees to the law firm that represented him in several cases involving his dealings with President Donald Trump.
Rudy Giuliani attends a commemoration ceremony at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in New York City on Thursday. A New York state judge ordered Giuliani to pay legal fees for work done representing him in 10 cases involving his time as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer. Photo by Peter Foley/UPI UPI
Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A New York judge on Wednesday ordered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to pay $1.36 million in legal fees to the law firm that represented him in several cases involving his dealings with President Donald Trump.
In addition to the unpaid legal fees, New York County Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Giuliani to pay interest to the law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron starting from October 2023.
The unpaid fees are for work the former partner Robert Costello did for Giuliani between November 2019 and July 2023 on 10 lawsuits filed against him in state and federal courts as well as disciplinary proceedings involving his law license. The cases included the Jan. 6 committee investigation and the Fulton County, Ga., presidential election case.
The law firm, which filed its lawsuit against Giuliani in September 2023, said Giuliani paid $214,000 of nearly $1.6 million in legal fees. Giuliani said he never agreed to pay the firm for its work and that he never received any invoices.
Engoron ruled against Giuliani, saying the former mayor referenced an invoice number in one of the checks he did pay to the firm.
Ted Goodman, a representative for Giuliani, took issue with Engoron proceeding over the case. In 2024, the judge issued a $454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump after finding the president lied about his wealth and value of other assets to obtain better financial conditions.
"The idea that Judge Arthur Engoron is permitted to sit on a case involving President Donald Trump's good friend and former personal lawyer, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, flies in the face of justice and demonstrates the partisan political nature of this decision," Goodman said in a statement to The Hill.
