In Some Cases, Criminals Make Good Spokespersons

Here’s one from the “ya can’t make this (stuff) up” category.  It’s an ad warning folks about scammers who try to bamboozle homeowners into turning over the titles to their houses.  That’s all well and good until you realize that the celebrity spokesperson they chose is….wait for it….Rudy Giuliani.

Yes, this is the same Rudy Giuliani who directed Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman in an illegal attempt to pressure the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. “He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn’t do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president,” Parnas told Rachel Maddow in an interview.  This, of course, is the crime that brought the impeachment proceedings against Trump in late 2019.  U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoff Berman (or whoever takes his place) is managing the criminal investigation into their associate Giuliani.

If they manage to dodge this bullet, Parnas and Fruman are very likely to go to prison when they are tried for another crime, making $325,000 in illegal straw donations to a super PAC supporting President Donald Trump.

I wish I had been in the conference room when the decision was made to tap Giuliani for the role.  Damn, I always miss the good ones.  I would have stood up and said, “Look, I get the thinking here.  Crooks understand the criminal mind.  Fine.  But if this is how we’re playing this, let’s just get John Gotti, Jr.  He did six-and-a-half years on a racketeering conviction, but he’s out now.  He says he’s retired from the Gambino crime family, and if he really has gone straight, he’s probably looking for work.”