Rudy Giuliani indicted under racketeering laws he famously used to take down mob bosses

Rudy Giuliani — once the most feared federal prosecutor in America for using RICO laws to take down Mafia bigs — just got indicted under the same statutes in Georgia for alleged election tampering.

“You couldn’t invent such irony,” Ken Frydman, who was campaign press secretary for Giuliani’s successful 1993 comeback campaign for New York City mayor, told The Post on Tuesday.

Giuliani, 79, famously pioneered the use of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations laws in landing convictions against Mafiosi and other crooks in the 1980s as a federal prosecutor.

But the statutes came back to bite him Monday, when he was indicted along with buddy and former President Donald Trump under Georgia’s state RICO laws for allegedly trying to overturn the Peach State’s 2020 presidential election results.

Both Giuliani and Trump have denied any wrongdoing.

Frydman said, “Rudy has been hoisted on his petard.

“He brought this on himself.”

Giuliani, the former US attorney for the Southern District, touted his law-and-order credentials as a federal prosecutor to first sweep into City Hall in 1994 during an era when voters were fed up with high crime, including 2,000 murders a year.

Giuliani later became known as “America’s Mayor” for helping New York City recover from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008.

Frydman, a fan-turned-critic of his former boss, previously produced a four-episode docu-series called “Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor.”

“Rudy as a prosecutor was considered the cream of the crop — the best of the best,” Frydman said. “He was considered the best litigator, legal strategist and tactician.”

Giuliani was the first prosecutor to aggressively use RICO laws to prosecute and convict numerous mob bosses in the famous Mafia Commission case.

His office won convictions against eight top members of La Cosa Nostra in New York in 1986, including three bosses of crime families:  Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno of the Genovese crime family, Anthony “Tony Ducks” Corallo of the Lucchese group and Carmine “Junior” Persico of the Colombos. The RICO charges included murders, loan-sharking, labor union payoffs and massive extortion in the construction industry.

One of the defendants, Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano, was assassinated before trial.

“It was the most sweeping use of the RICO statute,” said a federal prosecutor who worked under Giuliani. 

Giuliani also used the civil RICO laws to put the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, accused of being controlled by organized crime, under federal oversight for decades.

In a statement early Tuesday on X, formerly known as Twitter, Giuliani ranted that the grand jury indictment obtained by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is an abuse of Georgia’s state RICO law.

“This indictment is an affront to American Democracy and does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system,” Giuliani said.

“It’s just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of framing President Donald Trump and anyone willing to take on the ruling regime. [Foes] lied about Russian collusion, they lied about Joe Biden’s foreign bribery scheme, and they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive proving 30 years of criminal activity.

“The real criminals here are the people who have brought this case forward both directly and indirectly,” Giuliani said.

Former Republican US Attorney Al D’Amato, who recommended that Giuliani be appointed US attorney by then-President Ronald Reagan but later had a falling out with him in a political dispute, sided with the former mayor and Trump on the Georgia indictment.

“It is ironic that Rudy is being indicted under RICO. But Rudy used the RICO statute correctly. He used it appropriately,” D’Amato said.

“This case brought in Georgia is a witch hunt that is making the nation a laughingstock. These are political charges that shouldn’t be brought in state court.”