Broke Rudy Giuliani explains first-class trip to RNC that infuriated creditors

Cash-strapped ex-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani confirmed he flew first-class to the Republican National Convention — but not at his own expense, according to a new court filing.

The judge in Giuliani’s bankruptcy case ordered the Chapter 11 case to be dismissed on July 12, while the terms of the dismissal have not yet been finalized.

Lawyers for hisbankruptcy creditors learned at a July 17 hearing that the disgraced former mayor had blown through$30,000 in a one-week span. A statement for one bank account, which had $60,000 on July 10, showed that he had spent tens of thousands on his two properties as well as an unknown amount at the RNC in Milwaukee.

CNN had reported that Giuliani had flown first-class with a personal assistant on a Delta flight from New York to Milwaukee, where he took a tumble.

One day after the hearing, Rachel Strickland, a lawyer for the defamed election workers Giuliani owes nearly $150m, wrote a letter to the judge citing the report: “In light of the Debtor’s claims of limited access to cash and new reports of the Debtor, his assistant, and his companion flying first class this week”...the creditors have requested “additional disclosure from the Debtor regarding his recent expenditures.”

Giuliani’s lawyer Gary Fischoff in a July 23 letter blasted the claim as an “unsubstantiated rumor.”

Fischoff attached a letter signed by the president of FrankSpeech — Mike Lindell’s broadcasting platform that recently hired Giuliani to host a TV program — writing that the company “entirely covered” the former mayor’s flight and hotel in Milwaukee from July 14 through the 20, the letter says.

At the last hearing, Strickland said draining half of his bank account is evidence that the former mayor “is up to