Rudy Giuliani should be embarrassed by his decision to support corrupt Romanian kleptocrats in return for wads of cash.

Giuliani, a former New York City mayor with an honorable if controversial record of public service, has provided his support with a letter to various Romanian politicians expressing “my concern about the continued damage to the rule of law in Romania, committed under the pretext of law enforcement.” Giuliani argues that the law has been “undermined by the excesses of Romania’s National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) under the leadership of former Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi.”