Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani raises less than $1 million from 13 donors in legal defense fund

• Rudy Giuliani raised less than $1 million from just 13 donors, among them his friends and a group of former President Donald Trump's allies, to help pay off his legal fees.
• Giuliani faces a $146 million defamation judgment and a criminal prosecution, among other legal problems.
• Giuliani's political action committee dedicated to helping him pay his legal bills raised over $740,000 throughout the past six months on the backs of some of Trump's backers and longtime associates.
• Elizabeth Ailes, the widow of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, donated $100,000 last year to the Giuliani legal defense PAC, according to the filing.

Rudy Giuliani was able to raise less than $1 million from just 13 donors, among them his friends and a group of former President Donald Trump's allies, to help pay off his legal fees as he faces a $146 million defamation judgment and a criminal prosecution, a new Federal Election Commission filing reviewed by CNBC shows.

Giuliani's political action committee raised just over $727,000 from August through December, according to the FEC filing Thursday. His son Andrew Giuliani, who is helping run the PAC, did not return a request for comment on the haul.

The single biggest donation came from a Corona del Mar, California, woman named Caryn Borland, who donated $300,000, more than 40% of the total donations to Giuliani, the filing shows.

Borland, who also is known as Caryn Hildenbrand, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Last year, the Caryn L Hildenbrand Living Trust donated $1 million to a legal defense fund for Trump, which also was the single largest donation to that fund, which had raised $1.6 million, according to a disclosure filed to the Internal Revenue Service.

Hildenbrand and her