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Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former U.S. attorney general can work as lawyers for Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who is facing criminal charges in the U.S., a judge said June 1. 

Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey have penned two fresh affidavits explaining their role in representing a wealthy Turkish-Iranian gold trader accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. However, the government told a New York federal judge on May 22 that more information is needed to rule out a conflict of interest.

A U.S. judge on May 1 said he wanted to know whether Iran employs any lawyers for a wealthy Turkish-Iranian gold trader accused of helping that country evade U.S. sanctions, a team that includes former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

A U.S. judge on April 5 ordered that he be given more detail about former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and another lawyer's representation of a Turkish gold trader, Reza Zarrab, charged with conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran.

A Turkish gold trader's decision to hire former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to represent him, as he defends against charges he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran, raises a potential conflict of interest, prosecutors said.

Eliot Engel has confirmed that the United States is currently opposed to the establishment of an army in Kosovo.

However, the ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Congress urged a change of this position as soon as possible.

The Megaron Plus lecture series continues on Monday, March 20, with David Harvey, a distinguished professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

It turns out that the Russian were best at predicting who would win the U.S. presidential elections. According to research by Ipsos, only two other countries, or rather a majority of respective citizens, were giving Trump the thumps-up before the race for the White House had started. The rest of the world was convinced that Hillary Clinton would win.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is now "a leading candidate to be U.S. secretary of state" in the administration of President Donald Trump.

Reuters reported this on Monday quoting "a source familiar with the situation."

Even scarier than the thought of Donald Trump as America’s 45th president — in an election whose outcome has shaken liberals and conservatives alike — is that of who will fill his cabinet come January 20, 2017.