Rudy Giuliani bottoms out with “2nd Chance Bail Bonds” debacle
The Rudy Giuliani jokes just write themselves these days. When he showed up to surrender himself for arrest in Fulton County, Georgia on Wednesday, would he end up at Fulton County Total Landscaping? Would he show up for his arraignment at Courtyard by Marriott? After all, the guy is bottoming out cognitively even as his life falls apart.
It turns out Giuliani did give us a good punchline on Wednesday. This apparently wasn’t due to senility, but instead because he’s broke. People with assets tend to make bail by putting up their assets as collateral. Apparently Giuliani really does have no viable assets, because someone in the media saw him walking into a place called “2nd Chance Bail Bonds” in Atlanta on Wednesday. No really, this happened.
This comes even as Rudy recently put his New York City home up for sale. Perhaps that kept him from being able to use it as collateral on his bail. But that brings us back to the question of why he’s selling his primary residence to begin with. He obviously needs the cash, and perhaps expects to lose his home in the civil proceedings against him anyway. And come to think of it, you don’t really need to own a home if you’re going to prison for the rest of your life.
But this is still surreal. Imagine going back a decade or two and trying to convince your past self that at some point Rudy Giuliani would mistakenly do a press conference in the parking lot of a landscaping company in Pennsylvania that would help lead to him being arrested for racketeering in Georgia. This guy used to be the Mayor of New York City. Now he’s reduced to wandering into a place called “2nd Chance Bail Bonds” and asking for help.
