Rudy Giuliani

Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building on New York's Park Avenue, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. In the latest filings Friday, prosecutors will weigh in on whether Cohen deserves prison time and, if so, how much. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

January 18, 2019, 5:24 pm

Congress to probe report that Trump told Cohen to lie on Russia deal

Investigation comes after report by BuzzFeed News that US president told personal lawyer to lie to Congress about Moscow real estate project during 2016 election

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

In this August 1, 2018 photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for US President Donald Trump, addresses a gathering during a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

January 17, 2019, 6:04 pm

‘I never said there was no collusion,’ Trump lawyer says

Rudy Giuliani declines to defend campaign staff, but insists ‘not a single bit of evidence’ links the president to criminality

By Eric Tucker

Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for US President Donald Trump, speaks at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and Democracy in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2018. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik)

December 16, 2018, 8:26 pm

Giuliani: Mueller can interview Trump only ‘over my dead body’

Lawyer for US president categorically rules out possibility of interview with the special counsel over Russian election interference

By AFP

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila sits in a garden at his personal ranch on December 10, 2018 in Kinshasa. (John WESSELS / AFP)

December 11, 2018, 7:10 pm

Israeli firm said using US lobbyists to help Congo regime skirt new sanctions

Holon-based Mer was reportedly paid $8 million through its Trump-linked Washington contacts to help Central African country

By TOI staff

George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations as he arrives for a meeting in Brussels, April 27, 2017.
(AFP/OLIVIER HOSLET)

October 23, 2018, 6:32 am

Explosive device found in mailbox at George Soros’s New York home

Device detonated by sappers at residence of Jewish philanthropist, who is a favored target of right-wing groups; police say he was not home at the time

By TOI staff

In this file photo taken on July 11, 2018, activists of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) hold placards in front of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin reading 'Deliver the Iranian diplomat-terrorist to Belgium' during a demonstration calling for the extradition of an Iranian diplomat to Belgium over suspicions that he was involved in plotting to bomb an opposition Iranian group's conference in Paris. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)

October 11, 2018, 12:31 am

Belgium holding Iranian diplomat over alleged bomb plot at opposition rally

Assadollah Assadi extradited from Germany, questioned in Antwerp over plot to attack Paris rally, reportedly foiled by Mossad

By AFP and TOI staff

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giulliani during an interview to the Associated Press in Jerusalem, June 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

October 8, 2018, 11:56 pm

Rudy Giuliani shares tweet calling George Soros ‘anti-Christ’

Progressive Jewish financier has come under attack amid fierce Democratic protests against Kavanaugh appointment

By Gabe Friedman

October 1, 2018, 12:15 pm

Germany approves extradition of Iranian diplomat over alleged bomb plot

Hebrew media reported earlier this year that the planned attack on an opposition rally in Paris was thwarted by the Mossad

By AFP and TOI staff

September 23, 2018, 9:55 am

Giuliani: Sanctions creating the conditions for revolution in Iran

President’s personal attorney bucks Trump administration line, says ‘the people of Iran obviously have now had enough’

By TOI staff

This combination of file photos created September 4, 2018 show Associate Editor of the Washington Post Bob Woodward (L) speaking at the Newseum during an event marking the 40th anniversary of Watergate at the Newseum in Washington, DC June 13, 2012; and US President Donald Trump speaking during an event to announce a grant for drug-free communities support program, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 29, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGAN AND Jim WATSON)

September 11, 2018, 2:27 pm

As Trump fumes over leaks, Woodward pushes back on criticism

Veteran journalist staunchly defends his incendiary book, saying Mattis and Kelly ‘are not telling the truth’ when they deny making disparaging remarks about president

By Catherine Lucey and Jonathan Lemire

Donald Trump, right, and Rudy Giuliani pose for photographs as Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse on Sunday, November 20, 2016, in Bedminster, N.J.. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

August 24, 2018, 6:25 am

All the president’s lawyers: The small army defending Trump

From McCarthyite Roy Cohn to Israel defender Jay Sekulow, the president has always surrounded himself with litigators

By Jennie Matthew

Michael Cohen leaves Federal court, in New York, August 21, 2018. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

August 22, 2018, 11:51 am

Cohen case sheds light on race to cover up Trump’s racy past

Plea agreement of Trump’s former fixer has revealed details of an alleged system to suppress potentially damaging media stories during the election campaign

By Eric Tucker

August 21, 2018, 3:19 am

Trump attorney Giuliani walks back ‘truth isn’t truth’ remark

After comment widely mocked, former New York mayor says statement was ‘referring to the situation where two people make precisely contradictory statements’

By AFP

August 20, 2018, 5:12 am

‘Truth isn’t truth’ Giuliani philosophizes, defending Trump

Making case for why president should not testify to Mueller investigation, former New York mayor says truth is only someone’s version of it

By AP

US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, July 18, 2018; and Playboy model Karen McDougal in Miami Beach, Florida, February 6, 2010. (AFP/Getty Images North America/Nicholas Kamm and Dimitrios Kambouris, file)

July 25, 2018, 7:53 am

Trump recorded discussing paying for Playboy model’s story

CNN publishes part of tape in which the future US president can be heard talking about ‘financing’ for Karen McDougal payoff

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and Jonathan Lemire