**Rudy Giuliani, according to FEC filings, is worth as much as $70 million.

**Note that when news broke this summer that Giuliani had resigned from the blue ribbon Iraq Study Group, it was because he was too busy collecting six-figure checks for his guest speaking gigs, the ones that sprouted up in the wake of the 9-11 attacks and the ones that earned him nearly $11 million in 2006; $1.7 million in just one month.

Post 9/11 mindset defined: "How can I milk this fucking disaster (to which my own incompetence contributed) for fun, profit and power?"
- mark 8-29-2007 9:54 pm

On Dec. 7, 2001, nearly three months after the terrorist attack that had made him a national hero and a little over three weeks before he would leave office, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani took the first official step toward making himself rich.