Rudy Giuliani Isn’t the Only Shady Lawyer in the Trump-Ukraine Scandal
Meet Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, tied to almost every foreigner in the impeachment saga, including an indicted oligarch
For the past few months, Rudy Giuliani has chewed up screen time and headlines at a rate he hasn’t seen in nearly two decades. With every development surrounding President Trump’s unprecedented efforts to strong-arm Ukraine, there’s Giuliani, keening on cable news, pushing outlandish claims about Joe Biden’s supposed corruption in Ukraine, pumping out conspiracies and butt-dials alike. Indeed, no American this side of Trump has played such a central role in the unfurling impeachment saga as Giuliani.
But Giuliani’s not the lone American spearheading the smears against Biden. He’s had help from Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, a husband-and-wife lawyer team directly connected to every other major player in Trump’s impending impeachment, including a man the United States previously described as an “upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime.” And like Giuliani, they have avoided registering any of their recent foreign work with the Justice Department. Understanding their role—and their spiraling relationships with all the other major players on both sides of the Atlantic involved…
