2y ago

People Are Losing It Over Footage Showing Rudy Giuliani Walking Into A Bail Bond Joint After Being Arraigned

uproxx.com Rudy Giuliani Spotted Going To Bail Bond Joint After Arraignment

People simply cannot believe how far the former ’America’s Mayor’ has fallen.

Not just ANY bail bond joint, "A 2nd Chance Bail Bonds" in Atlanta.

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People often say they're just waiting for him to flip on Trump. Giuliani is broke, Trump disdains him, etc...
The prosecutors aren't interested in what he has to say. There are better witnesses, more reliable witnesses who have corroborated all the facts already.
The prosecutors do not need this shell of a man to flip.
- Yeah, but it'll still be fun to watch all the worms turn on each other.
  
  If he flips it'll be hilarious watching him mouth vomit all the shit trump has told him.
- This. Trump is the main culprit and threat, so he's priority.
  But taking down a corrupt former mayor? That's a feather in anyone's cap too.
  
  Plus, Rudy isn't exactly a credible witness. He's told so many lies, so many different versions of events, and he has proven he's willing to say anything to save his own skin. The defense would tear him apart on the stand.
  The only way he gets a deal is if he can provide hard evidence the prosecution doesn't already have.
- At this rate they don’t need anyone to “flip”. At the end of the day these morons got busted doing illegal shit and there is more than enough evidence that they don’t need someone else’s testimony. Flip or not then are fucked.
  
  The guy who erased the footage already flipped...
  He had a trump lawyer and said it was never erased. Then he switched to a public defender and recanted his statement that it wasn't erased.
  Even if he didn't take a deal, that counts as "flipping"
- He won't flip, or else GRU will release the CP tapes.
- Plus I have to imagine that lawyers such as Jack Smith and those on his team have a deep loathing for corrupt attorneys like Giuliani and would love to see him brought to justice.
- Rudy is the "true believer." I dont think he'll ever turn on Trump.
  
  I don't think so. I think he's just an opportunistic weasel. But I could be wrong
  
  Lmao no, no one of his bootlickers believe in him. Not even Gaetz. When push comes to shove is everyone for themselves. Although, the Four Season Landscaping fiasco (still get a good laugh at that one) make me question his sanity.
- To quote Giuliani himself, He has insurance, and knows where the bodies are buried. There are likely ~~extemporaneous~~ contemporaneous notes of items of interest

Should’ve chosen Four Seasons Bail Bonds.
- That only offers bail bonds for landscapers

He deserves all the ridicule in the world for this, as well as anyone else involved in this scheme to overthrow a duly elected government. I will gleefully watch this trial and not feel bad about enjoying it whatsoever.

If he really has to use bonds man, things are not looking too good for him. At this point he has to consider whether cooperating is the better option or not, right?
It seems to me that this will escalate rather quickly between them.
- Yeah, he's out of money. Trying to sell a house for 6.5 mil. Begging Trump for cash which isn't coming.
  Only a matter of time...
- Prosecution doesn't need him. Rudy has lied and contradicted himself so often you simply couldn't put him on the stand. His testimony would be impeached within minutes. So his only value would be if he could provide background information that wasn't available through other means. Well they have all of his electronic devices (18 from his apartment alone!), all of his texts and emails, what else can he offer?
- At this point he has to consider whether cooperating is the better option or not, right?
  That would be the smart option, not the Republican one.

Uh-oh. He isn't rich anymore. According to Trump, that means he's automatically a loser. Guess he won't be getting any support from the orange guy anymore, not that he was getting much.

As someone not from America, and having never gone to jail, what is this?
- Someone has already explained the mechanics of bail to you but from a cultural perspective it's important to note that someone going to one of these storefront bail bondsmen is interpreted as a sign that you are
  in an awful lot of trouble
  probably a person to avoid because your problems will have a tendency to become my problems
  broke enough that you're willing to pay punitive interest in order to stay out of jail
  Normally I'd be all on my soapbox about how the bail system essentially means that poor people get punished more for the same crimes and shit like that but this guy really is an absolute monster. Back in the 90s everyone loved him for "cleaning up New York City" using the twin powers of aggressively racist policing and violence against homeless people. After 9/11 they all but made him a saint, started calling him "America's Mayor" and shit like that, but those of us who had been paying attention knew that he was a shit leader and a shit person who was benefiting from the fact that we needed someone to rally behind after the tragedy that was the 9/11 attacks. Watching him be exposed for the grifter and criminal that he always was has been cathartic for a lot of people.
  
  To expand on why this isn't a good look - bail bondsmen typically charge a non-refundable 10% of bail. So if you're a former mayor who shit on your own legacy by trying to overthrow the government and your bail is set at $150,000 that means you're paying a bail bondsman $15,000 that you won't get back ever. That $15,000 is a fee that they apply in case they need to hire a bounty hunter to drag your delinquent ass to court.
  A person usually tries pretty hard to raise bail without paying a bondsman because they don't want to lose that 10%. So this is basically the equivalent of Giuliani going to a Payday Loans lender to get an advance on his paycheck at a predatory rate.
  
  Ah thanks. So this is like a pay day loan lender but for bail bonds?
- Basically, if you are deemed not a risk to the community/flight risk(all arguable in this case but they did set them bail amounts), the courts give you a sum based on your accused offense you can pay to get out of jail till the trial date. If you show up to trial you get the bail amounts back, if you don't you get a warrant and the courts keep your money. Where bail "bonds" come into play, is they are companies acting as pseudo banks who will lend you money to make bail with interest obviously. It's very predatory because the only people who generally have to use these are poor people and the states don't care about poor criminals enough to make it not so predatory.
  
  I haven’t seen bonds work like that (but I don’t doubt some do). The way they work around me is:
  You get a bond for $2000
  You go to a bail bondsman and give them the paperwork
  You pay 15% of your bond to them ($300 in this case)
  That’s it. They keep your $300 and they post your $2000 bail. You don’t get your $300 back when you go to court. But you also don’t get hunted down by a bounty hunter and you don’t get additional charges ~~for skipping~~ as long as you show up for your court date.
  edit: my brain stopped working on point 4 as pointed out by @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
  
  Cheers, definitely predatory. Not a good look for him then.
- If you have a lot of money/property you put that up for 100% of the bail amount, which you get back if you show up to court.
  If you don't have enough money/property, you go to a bondsman, pay the 10% and they put up the other 90%. You never get your 10% back even if you show in court.
  So if you're gonna run, you just pay the 10%, which over the decades resulted in bail amounts 10x higher than they should be.
  It's basically a "poor tax" that Rudy apparently has to pay.
  
  So the bail bondsman isn't going to come after you to get back the 90% he lost when you didn't show up for court?

And yet he still had the resources to fly in on a private jet...

He's no dummy. He doesn't want to forfeit his own money if he decides to skip out...

I mean it is a big deal, oddly though I don't feel all that satisfied I'm just trusting that the professionals are handling it and I trust that the right outcome will eventually prevail