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OK, friends, fans, and followers...it's thread time. This is a story about a "lawyer" named RudyGiuliani, who said “Nobody got killed, nobody got robbed… This was not a big crime” regarding using campaign contributions to keep #Individual1 's hookups quiet.
12:29 PM - Jul 21, 2023 (Edited)
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Once upon a time, RudyGiuliani was the mayor of New York. He also had a weekly call-in radio show. A man named James Schillaci called in to complain to #Giuliani that traffic cops were manipulating a traffic signal sensor in the Bronx in order to entrap drivers into tickets.
12:29 PM - Jul 21, 2023 (Edited)
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Giuliani ignored Schillaci's complaint. Schillaci then took video and pics of the cops rolling over the sensor to trigger the red light, and passed it on to NY media, including the NYDailyNews.
12:30 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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The Daily News, unlike RudyGiuliani, paid attention to Schillaci's complaint, running one of the pics on the front page, with a headline saying "GOTCHA!"
12:31 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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Remember above where I quoted Rudy Giuliani as saying funneling presidential campaign contributions to hush up Donald Trump's extracurricular activities was "not a big crime"? Well, it seems that exposing a police ticket trap WAS a big crime to Giuliani.
12:32 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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The morning after the story ran, two cops showed up to Schillaci's home and arrested him on a traffic warrant from 13 years earlier.
That's right, all of a sudden they were in a hurry to find him and haul him in.
12:33 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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At arraignment, the judge threw the warrant out immediately because it was too old to enforce. But #Giuliani and his band of petty, vindictive henchmen were just getting started.
12:33 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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An NYPD spokeswoman released his past arrest record to the media (which may have violated NY state laws regarding release of such info), and referred to Schillaci as a sex offender, *falsely* stating that he was convicted of sodomy (the case had been dismissed).
12:34 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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Then, Rudy Giuliani joined in on the smear job, saying “Mr. Schillaci was posing as an altruistic whistle-blower...Maybe he’s dishonest enough to lie about police officers.”
12:34 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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This targeted retaliation caused Schillaci to suffer a nervous breakdown, landing him in the hospital. He eventually sued NYC, winning a $290K settlement. However his life was ruined.
12:35 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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The moral of this story? It's "not a big crime" when Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, or Rudy Giuliani do it, but if a regular person dares to call them out on their actions, then it's on the level of crimes against humanity.
12:36 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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In closing, Rudy Giuliani is nothing but a hypocrite and a wannabe mobster. He fits in perfectly with the #trumpCrimeFamily .
12:36 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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Thanks to the NY Times, Salon, Vox, and the NY Daily News for the reporting and images on this story (links below).
12:38 PM - Jul 21, 2023
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