Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has hired two new lawyers to represent him in the case related to the FBI raid of his apartment last month, court records show. The two New York-based attorneys previously helped defend former film producer Harvey Weinstein, who is now serving a more than two-decade prison sentence after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.
Attorneys Arthur Aidala and Barry Kamins notified the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that they were appearing on behalf of Giuliani, according to court filings published Wednesday.
After losing the high-profile case against Weinstein, Aidala and Kamins now appear to be working on behalf of Giuliani, who is the subject of a federal probe into the former New York City mayor’s dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs while working for former President Trump.
As noted by Forbes, Aidala frequently spoke to the media on behalf of Weinstein while defending him and after the 2020 verdict told NPR, “Nobody on [Weinstein’s] defense team is happy that Harvey Weinstein is not sleeping in his own bed.”
The news outlet also reported that Kamins, a retired New York State Supreme Court justice, previously served as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn.
John M. Levanthal, another attorney from the New York-based law firm Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, also appeared in court Wednesday on behalf of Giuliani, according to Forbes.