Earlier this month, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, parted ways with his own lawyer, claiming the guy’s services were unnecessary. Fast-forward less than two weeks, and the ex-mayor is now reportedly shopping around for new representation. And based on his own personal legal situation, it’s easy to see why!

In addition to being under criminal investigation by the Southern District of New York, regarding his business relationship with Ukraine associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were arrested and charged with conspiracy and who allegedly played a valuable role in Giuliani’s attempt to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, Trump’s personal lawyer is said to be under investigation by the Department of Justice’s criminal division (Parnas and Fruman have pleaded not guilty). That makes things awkward not only for Giuliani, in that he’d presumably like to stay out of prison, but also for numerous members of the government with whom he worked on his Ukraine scheme, as well as, of course, for the president. “He appears to be a subject, if not a target, of an active investigation. So to have him be a part of the legal team would be troublesome, to say the least,” Greg Brower, who worked as the FBI’s top liaison to Congress until 2018, told Politico. “At best it’s a messy situation and more likely it’s just completely dysfunctional.” According to reporter Darren Samuelsohn, Giuliani was notably absent from the White House this week when Trump’s other lawyers huddled with him for an impeachment strategy session.

Giuliani has also been notably absent from the TV circuit of late, which suggests a rare prudence for a man who has had no problem incriminating his presidential client on television before. In recent days the anti-ferret activist turned presidential attorney’s only public comment has been a tweet that read, “With all the Fake News let me make it clear that everything I did was to discover evidence to defend my client against false charges. Dems would be horrified by the attacks on me, if my client was a terrorist. But they don’t believe @realDonaldTrump has rights. Justice will prevail.” Per Politico, a “back channel effort has been underway for more than a week” to help Giuliani lawyer up, and potential charges include “everything from violating federal statutes dealing with bribery, foreign lobbying registration, and disclosure to making false statements to government officials.”

Meanwhile, at the White House, Trump’s longest-serving legal adviser, Jay Sekulow, is apparently totally unconcerned about one of Trump’s lawyers being part of two ongoing investigations. “We have no concerns about any of that,” Sekulow told Politico. “He’s a member in good standing of the president’s legal team.”

In other Giuliani news, it turns out that he and Hunter Biden both did legal work for the same Romanian real estate tycoon charged with corruption. Synergy!

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Rudy Giuliani could use some money

We know this because he butt-dialed NBC News reporter Rich Schapiro and said so, among other things, on the guy’s voicemail while talking to someone else. Awkward!