Why did a young Rudy Giuliani have tea with Haiti's dictator in 1982?

To answer that question, we’ll have to go back to 1968 when a 24 year-old Giuliani was just graduating from law school. He was a young, driven lawyer whose sight was set on a political career with the Democratic Party. 

But in just 7 years, Giuliani would change cities, change jobs, change political parties and establish what we now call: immigration detention centers. 

You're listening to Episode 2: "Ambition is a Beast."

By: Leonardo Bevilacqua and Dante Dallago

Giuliani: The Unraveling – Episode 3: The GODFather

Shoe Leather is an investigative podcast that goes behind the scenes of forgotten stories that shaped New York City. Go along with the team as they knock on doors and track down the people who were at the center of the news.

This season, we're going to 1970 Greenwich Village. A townhouse suddenly explodes. And authorities find out that it’s ground zero for the operations of the Weather Underground: a radical group of young revolutionaries who use violence to "bring the war home." Three members are killed in the explosion, two others escape. Police would later describe the townhouse as a “bomb factory.” What pushes a protest movement toward violence? What makes a group of mostly middle-class, college-educated young men and women decide to build a bomb?