Rudy Giuliani, once ‘America’s mayor,’ had a very bad year | Lloyd Green

The former federal prosecutor and presidential contender has morphed into a punchline, full-time defendant and deadbeat

Chalk up 2023 as Rudy Giuliani's annus horribilis. On the other hand, 2024 may even be worse. The man once known as America's mayor" faces financial ruin and criminal prosecution with no end in sight to his woes. The hair-dye dripping down his face at a 2020 press conference ominously presaged what would eventually follow. It took less than two decades for the former federal prosecutor and contender for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination to morph into a punchline, full-time defendant and deadbeat.

Back in the day, Giuliani garnered a reputation for crime-busting - perp-walking Wall Street bankers and sending mobsters to jail. In summer 2023, a Fulton county, Georgia, grand jury indicted him on state-law racketeering charges along with the 45th president and a host of supporting characters.