The new attorney hired by Rudy Giuliani to defend him in the Georgia election racketeering case compared himself to a famous example in American history of a lawyer representing an unsavory client, according to the Wall Street Journal — John Adams defending the troops who staged the Boston Massacre.
L. Allyn Stockton Jr., according to the report, "only hesitatingly calls himself a Republican" and says there have been "not infrequent" occasions when he disagrees with his party and votes for Democrats instead. But he thinks that the racketeering charges in this case are on "shaky ground," however unpopular it might be to represent Donald Trump's inner circle.
“I kind of feel like when John Adams defended the British soldiers,” said Stockton. “Everybody gets a defense, and the government is not always right.”
Giuliani is one of 18 co-defendants charged alongside the former president in the plot to overturn the Georgia election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis claims the scheme involved seating fake electors, threatening Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into "finding" extra votes, and harassing and intimidating election workers from Atlanta.
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Previously, Giuliani — a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City who helped push Trump's election fraud claims — was represented by Robert Costello, who has now turned on him in a lawsuit alleging that he's owed $1.36 million in unpaid legal fees.
Giuliani is reportedly in a dire financial situation, as he faces not just that lawsuit but another suit brought by poll workers he harassed that was already decided against him in summary judgment.Trump recently held a fundraiser for him at his Bedminster club.
Stockton has said that he and Giuliani have an "arrangement that I'm satisfied with" for how to pay for his legal services.
