The news was not covered by the group’s English media but it was broadcasted in its Persian websites: The former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani and Maryam Rajavi the leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) addressed a meeting held by the group. However, the report was deleted from the front page of the group’s Persian speaking media in less than 24 hours.
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He is the former attorney of Donald Trump who is one of the most welcome speakers of the MEK-run events. Why does he choose to speak on behalf of a group which has almost no public support inside Iran? Why does he meet Maryam Rajavi who is the most hated Iranian opposition figure?
The answer lies in Giuliani’s background. In recent years, the man once celebrated as “America’s mayor” has fallen into disgrace. Just less than a month ago, Rudy Giuliani’s personal bankruptcy case was thrown out by a federal judge following nearly seven months of stalled progress, leaving the former New York City mayor without court protection from creditors owed more than $150 million.
Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy
Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, which has been marked by disputes with creditors over repeated failures to produce thorough financial records, can no longer continue, Judge Sean H. Lane of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Friday. Giuliani’s lack of transparency and failure to make meaningful progress over the course of his Chapter 11 justify dismissing the case, said Lane.
Rudy Giuliani had filed for bankruptcy, days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation lawsuit, in December 2023. Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy, acknowledging severe financial strain exacerbated by his pursuit of former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election and a jury’s verdict last week requiring him to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he defamed.
The former New York City mayor listed nearly $153 million in existing or potential debts, including almost $1 million in state and federal tax liabilities, money he owes lawyers, and many millions of dollars in potential judgments in lawsuits against him. He estimated he had assets worth $1 million to $10 million.
Giuliani had been teetering on the brink of financial ruin for several years, but the eye-popping damages award to former election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss pushed him over the edge. The women said Giuliani’s targeting of them after Republican Trump narrowly lost Georgia to Democrat Joe Biden led to death threats that made them fear for their lives. It is worth to know that the two election workers are black and Giuliani is accused of being racist too.
Is Rudy looking for a new financial resource?
The important fact is that Rudy Giuliani can’t use bankruptcy to skip out on $150 million in defamation damages, federal judge rules. However, he seems to be both financially and politically bankrupt as he never misses the hefty speaking fees, first-class fight to Paris and luxurious stay in French capital offered by Maryam Rajavi.
The MEK’s multi-million-dollar campaign has always been focused by western media. In September 2012 after group was removed from the terrorist list of the US State Department, the Guardian reported that the steady flow of funds to members of Congress, lobbying firms and former officials in support of the MEK ended to MEK’s delisting.
The Politico Magazine again highlighted the case when Guiliani was running Trump’s election campaign in 2016, by stating that Giuliani took money from the MEK. The author of the article referred to the MEK as “a group that killed Americans”.
According to Politico, the MeK has paid Giuliani handsomely for years—$20,000 or more, and possibly a lot more—for brief appearances before the group and for lobbying to have it removed from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), which occurred in 2012. MEK seems to be one of the most generous clients of former mayor of New York city and maybe the only entity who still gives credit to him by calling him “Mayor Giuliani”!
Maryam Rajavi’s bankruptcy
One of the dark points almost always repeated in reports on Giuliani’s background, refers to the MEK, his notorious client. His paid advocacy for the group and his meetings with the notorious cult leader, Maryam Rajavi, is frequently used as evidence for his moral, financial and political bankruptcy.
In October 2019, NBC NEWS reported that Giuliani’s work for Iranian group with bloody past could lead to more legal woes. NBC NWES published crucial questions that experts asked: “Lawyer? Lobbyist? Fixer? Rudy Giuliani’s overseas activities leave trail of questions”
The report revealed some of the overseas clients of Donald Trump’s former attorney in the past and present: “A Brazilian state bordering the Amazon jungle. A Russia-leaning Ukrainian mayor. A heavyweight boxing champion-turned-Ukrainian mayor. The government of Qatar. The government of Gabon. A Peruvian presidential candidate accused of campaign finance violations. A Romanian businessman accused of real estate fraud. A Turkish gold trader accused of laundering Iranian money. An Argentinian senator. A Chilean president. An Iranian dissident group once designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization.”
In September 2022, the NEW YORKER called the MEK as one of Giuliani’s sketchy clients: “After launching his career as a federal prosecutor and winning convictions of Wall Street inside traders like Ivan Boesky, Giuliani seems to have decided that riches were his due. Back in private practice, he began taking on all sorts of sketchy clients, from Purdue Pharma to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, an exiled Iranian militia group that, in collaboration with Saddam Hussein, had slaughtered Kurds.”
In January 2020, The Daily Beast titled an article as “Rudy Giuliani Calls Former Iranian Terrorists ‘My People’”. The article denounced Giuliani for being “on the payroll” of the MEK: “MEK-linked groups paid Rudy Giuliani to get them off the U.S. list of terrorist groups.”
The sinister union of bankrupts
The MEK works as a scale to prove Giuliani’s malicious background. Maryam Rajavi is a political bankrupt and Ruly Giuliani is a financial bankrupt. It’s not surprising to see Rudy Giuliani “a buckraker with few principles” by the side of Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the MEK destructive cult with no principals, with a huge background of cult-like attitudes and violence against her own members and other civilians. This alliance is so notorious that the MEK could not dare to run the news in its propaganda machine.
Mazda Parsi