Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer says former NYC mayor may have a lung disease related to

• His lawyers claimed the ‘possible’ condition may limit ‘future earning capacity’

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is suffering from a ‘possible’ lung disease related to 9/11, his lawyers have claimed in a new court filing.

Attorneys Gary C. Fischoff and Joan A. Keely, acting on behalf of Giuliani, alleged in a 17-page court filing that the politician’s potential condition could limit his ‘future health’ and ‘future earning capacity’.

It comes after creditors last month requested that a bankruptcy judge immediately appoint a trustee to oversee the ex-mayor’s finances after he filed for bankruptcy in December 2023 amid mounting legal issues.

The document, filed on Monday in New York, objected the plans to appoint a trustee to manage his debts and argued that the 80-year-old has not been hiding assets or misleading creditors about his income.

Also on Monday, authorities in Arizona released a mug shot of Giuliani in connection to his indictment in the state’s ‘fake electors’ case, which he is accused of pressuring election officials to change the results of the 2020 election.

Giuliani filed for bankruptcy in New York in December last year with staggering debts of $153million owed to creditors including two Georgia election workers he defamed, lawyers, the IRS, and Hunter Biden.

The NYC leader, who became known as ‘America’s Mayor’ in the wake of 9/11, filed court documents showing he had less than $10million in assets.

His bankruptcy filing came after a jury ordered him to pay $148million in damages to election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss for claiming they tried to rig the vote for Joe Biden. 

Lawyers for his creditors on May 28 argued in a court filing that a bankruptcy trustee should take over his assets, alleging Giuliani repeatedly lied and deceived creditors about his finances to avoid paying his debts.

But Giuliani’s lawyers hit back on Monday, claiming that there ‘there is nothing new or unusual about the manner in which [he] operates.’  

Fischoff and Keely, in the court filing obtained by DailyMail.com, argued that adding a trustee to his accounts would ‘add a new expensive layer of administration’ for Giuliani – which they claim would not improve the prospect of repayment for creditors or expand his income.

They claimed that since he has been barred from practicing law, Giuliani’s ‘only source of employment income is generated from his personal services’.

Citing business ventures including his brand Rudy Coffee and podcast America’s Mayor Live, the attorneys argued that the funds currently coming into his estate are ‘modest’.

The filing alleged that he is currently employed by his own firm, Giuliani Communications LLC, and that his ‘gross income for his services are deposited into the entity’. 

It also claimed that in the past, ‘when the business revenue was insufficient to cover the business expenses’, Giuliani used his ‘personal funds’ to cover the company’s expenses.

‘There is nothing new or unusual about the manner in which [Giuliani] operates,’ the filing states. ‘He has always used the income he generates to pay business expenses and then use any remainder to cover personal expenses.’ 

His attorneys further argued that, however, at the conclusion of ‘most months’, his company’s gross revenue does not exceed its expenses and therefore he receives ‘no personal income’.

They also denied the allegations by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, who have sought for a trustee to manage his accounts, that Giuliani ‘improperly paid $28,000’ for his ex-mother-in-law’s nursing home care.

Citing the alleged agreements of his divorce, Fischoff and Keely claimed that Giuliani agreed to ‘continue to pay expenses for [his ex’s] mother’ as he had been doing during the divorce case.

His membership at the Palm Beach Yacht Club, the Metropolitan Club in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were also scrutinized by the Committee. 

His lawyers, hitting back once again, claimed the fact that Giuliani ‘may frequent from time to time a club he is or was a member of’ does…