Rudy Giuliani turned to longtime allies to help pay his massive legal bills. He also saw help from supporters of Donald Trump.
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Rudy Giuliani was able to raise less than $1 million from just 13 donors, among them his friends and a group of former President
Donald Trump’s allies, to help pay off his legal fees as he faces a $146 million defamation judgment and a criminal prosecution, a new
Federal Election Commission filing reviewed by CNBC shows.
Giuliani’s political action committee raised just over $727,000 from August through December, according to the FEC
filing Thursday. His son Andrew Giuliani, who is helping run the PAC, did not return a request for comment on the haul.
The single biggest donation came from a Corona del Mar, California, woman named Caryn Borland, who donated $300,000, more than 40% of the total donations to Giuliani, the filing shows...
Last year, the Caryn L Hildenbrand Living Trust donated $1 million to a legal defense fund for Trump, which also was the single largest donation to that fund, which had raised $1.6 million, according to a disclosure filed to the
Internal Revenue Service.
Hildenbrand and her husband Michael, who donated more than $1 million in campaign-related contributions to Trump’ 2020 reelection bid, have shared memes and social media posts about the QAnon conspiracy theory according to T
he New York Times. The newspaper last month also reported that Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, had once canceled a fundraiser with the couple because of their QAnon posts.