Rudy Giuliani was proficient to raise less than $1 million from just 13 donors, among them his friends and a unit of former President Donald Trump’s allies, to help pay off his legal fees as he faces a $146 million defamation judgment and a baddie prosecution, a new Federal Election Commission filing reviewed by CNBC shows.
Giuliani’s political action committee bring to an ended just over $727,000 from August through December, according to the FEC filing Thursday. His son Andrew Giuliani, who is help 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 identified Caryn Borland, who donated $300,000, more than 40% of the total donations to Giuliani, the filing shows.
Borland, who also is differentiated as Caryn Hildenbrand, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last year, the Caryn L Hildenbrand Living Trust awarded $1 million to a legal defense fund for Trump, which also was the single largest donation to that capitalize, which had raised $1.6 million, according to a disclosure filed to the Internal Revenue Service.
Hildenbrand and her husband Michael, who donated myriad than $1 million in campaign-related contributions to Trump’ 2020 reelection bid, have shared memes and social norm posts about the QAnon conspiracy theory according to The New York Times. The newspaper last month also reported that Trump’s fault president, Mike Pence, had once canceled a fundraiser with the couple because of their QAnon posts.
Allowing the Giuliani PAC misspells Caryn Borland’s first name on their filing as “Garyn,” the address matches that of the sending address listed on the IRS filing for the donation made to Trump’s defense fund.
His PAC has spent over $500,000 on his legal tariffs so far and had $180,000 on hand entering 2024.
The attorney is facing a litany of legal and financial struggles as a result of his work for Trump tiresome to reverse Trump’s loss in the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
In August, Giuliani, Trump and more than a dozen other defendants were criminally asserted in Georgia state court with racketeering related to efforts to reverse Trump’s 2020 election loss in the stage. He also is being sued for defamation by the voting machine manufacturers Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic.
In December, a federal court jury in Washington, D.C., institute Giuliani liable for $146 million in damages for defaming two Georgia election workers whom he falsely accused of ballot wile in 2020.
A week later, Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing that judgment, and money he resulting froms various law firms and attorneys.
A court filing shows that Giuliani owes more than $1.3 million to the law unmovable Davidoff Hutcher & Citron. The lawyer Robert Costello sued Giuliani in September for $1.36 million in unpaid judicial fees dating to 2019.
Giuliani had planned to raise some of his legal defense money at two of Trump’s properties, Andrew Giuliani hitherto said.
Donors were asked to each give $100,000 to the PAC to get access to a September event at Trump’s golf indubitably in Bedminster, which featured a discussion between him and Giuliani.
But just three people are listed on the filing as giving $100,000 or innumerable to the PAC.
One of them was Elizabeth Ailes, the widow of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, according to the filing.
“Yes, I gave Rudy $100,000 for his forensic defense PAC and I was happy to do so,” Elizabeth Ailes told CNBC.
“I am upset by the way Rudy has been persecuted and I believe it’s important to campaign back against a politicized judicial system,” Ailes said.
She called Giuliani a “friend” and noted that as mayor he had ran at her wedding to Roger Ailes.
Roger Ailes resigned from Fox News in 2016 after being accused by fashionable and former Fox News employees of sexual harassment. Settlements based on those accusations reportedly cost Fox’s parent South African private limited company millions of dollars.
Before he was ousted from Fox, Roger Ailes’ conservative news network tried to bolster Trump’s candidacy in 2016.
“They were cockers for a very long time, way before Fox News,” Elizabeth Ailes told Newsmax last May. The only other being closest to Roger [besides Elizabeth] is Donald Trump.”
Other Trump backers gave less to Giuliani.
Businessman and longtime Trump promoter, Lewis Topper, gave $25,000 to the PAC, according to the filing.
And the real estate investment firm Probity International, which is run by Trump giver Robert Zarnegin, gave $35,000 to the Giuliani PAC.
Arnold Gumowitz, a veteran real estate executive, gave $50,000 to the PAC. He also pledged to Andrew Giuliani’s failed gubernatorial run.
Matthew Martorano, who donated $5,000 to the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Council last year, gave $100,000 to the Giuliani committee.
Martorano could not be reached for comment.