The former mayor practically invented the kind of prosecution he now faces.
The trials of the five families and the Wall Street insiders put Giuliani on the map. He ran for mayor, winning on his second bid in 1993, on the basis of his success as a crime-fighting crusader. The trials also legitimized RICO as a powerful prosecutorial tool against criminals who couldn’t easily be nabbed for their individual acts.
When terrorists struck the Twin Towers, Giuliani was at a personal low ebb. He had recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer and divorced his wife , who had kicked him out of Gracie Mansion. After 9/11, he roused himself into action, read Churchill’s memoirs for inspiration, rallied the city to recovery, and was acclaimed as “America’s mayor.
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