Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani admitted he could use the pension he never applied for.
Giuliani told the New York Post that he was “giving back to the city I love” when he declined to apply for a pension. From 1981 to 1983, he worked as the assistant United States Attorney General before becoming U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York until 1989 and serving as mayor from 1994 to 2001.
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“Although I would like to take it now,” Giuliani said of his pension. “I don’t know how to go about it.”
As a two-term mayor, Giuliani would have been eligible for $26,000 in annual pension payments after turning 62. At 79, Giuliani could have had $442,000.
The comment comes over a week after Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, listing estimated assets of between $1 million and $10 million along with liabilities of $100 million to $500 million. Earlier this month, a court ordered him to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss, whom he defamed by falsely claiming they colluded to steal the election.
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Giuliani has already been disbarred in New York. He remains the only other attorney formerly employed by Donald Trump to lose his bar license.
Giuliani is facing another legal battle in Georgia. He stands accused of attempting to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in Fulton County. He has pleaded not guilty along with former President Donald Trump, but four defendants involved have pleaded guilty so far.
