How Two Lawyers Made Their Careers Helping Trump.

I was a securities broker for a Wall Street firm in the 1980’s when Rudy Giuliani prosecuted some of the worst shysters to ever work in the securities industry, the names Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken spring to mind.

But at the same time that Giuliani was making a name for himself as a federal attorney bringing down crooks like Boesky and Milken who gave the whole brokerage industry a bad name, he also went after a lot of other Wall Street types who hadn’t done anything that was wrong, but every indictment and every ‘perp walk’ led by Giuliani helped propel him into a more politically active and politically visible role, which is where he wanted to be.

I had a friend, a securities broker in another Wall Street firm, whose name came up in one of the investigations conducted by Giuliani against another broker in my friend’s firm. The result was that my friend, who refused to talk to Giuliani about the other guy in his firm, was hounded endlessly and mercilessly by Giuliani to the point that he lost his job, which led to a marital breakup and the eventual attempt (unsuccessfully, thank God) by my buddy to take his own life.

I haven’t spoken to this former financial consultant in years, but the last I heard, he was working as a helper on someone else’s garbage truck.