Former Giuliani Colleagues Fear He Could Be Prosecuted

Former colleages of Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a close adviser to President Donald Trump, now fear he could be named in a future indictment connected to the mushrooming impeachment scandal.

A whistleblower's complaint released this week details a trip in late July in which Giuliani traveled to Spain to meeting an adviser to the Ukrainian president about a plan to investigate Joe Biden.

Several former Giuliani colleagues told NBC News they believe it should appear in a future indictment.

Several legal experts who used to work with the former U.S. attorney-turned New York City mayor-turned chief President Donald Trump defender told NBC News they believe his conduct likely broke the law.

"This is certainly not the Giuliani that I know," Jeffrey Harris, who worked as Giuliani’s top assistant when he was at the Justice Department in the President Ronald Reagan administration, told NBC. "I think the Giuliani that I know would prosecute the Giuliani of today."

Other ex-DOJ attorneys told NBC that they believe Giuliani has potentially exposed himself to a range of offenses — from breaking federal election laws to bribery to extortion — through his efforts to assist the Ukrainians in probing Biden, Trump’s top political opponent.

"There’s a whole apparatus of the United States government that’s set up to deal with foreign officials and Rudy Giuliani’s not one of them," said Harris, now a lawyer in private practice in Washington D.C.

"To the extent that you could look at this as using government resources for your benefit, there are a number of crimes that this conduct would answer to."