Mukasey has been gone from DOJ since 2005. The article quotes him as saying:

Mukasey was in the U.S. Attorney’s Office when the office indicted druglord J oaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo.

“There is going to be a dog fight between New York and Miami and Arizona [to try the case]. Texas has a claim, Washington does,” Mukasey said. “It’s not going to be much of a prosecution, because he essentially confessed to Sean Penn.

The Arizona Indictment was dismissed against El Chapo in 2012. I published the dismissal order here and wrote about it here and here. The two districts which have obtained Mexican arrest warrants for extradition (now on hold due to amparo writs) are Southern California and the Western District of Texas. Could other requests be pending or agreed to? Of course, but presently there is no unsealed Indictment pending in Arizona. When did Washington (either D.C. or a federal district in WA state) indict El Chapo? (Zambada-Garcia was indicted in D.C. along with his brother and son in 2003, but not El Chapo. ) Mukasey doesn't even mention Chicago, which arguably has a good case against him and is now on its 9th Superseding Indictment charging him.

Here's Rudy on criminal defense. Laugh out loud funny in an "eyes wide shut" kind of way.

“Assistant U.S. Attorneys, SEC lawyers, IRS people, these are the kinds of people that are really the ones that best understand how to defend you when you’re in trouble with the government,” Giuliani said.

He brags about kidnapping suspected Colombian drug traffickers without getting an extradtion order:

“Colombia has made a complete turn around, but in those days, we used to extradite Colombian drug cartel people by a more informal method of extradition. We put them on an airplane and sent them to Kennedy [airport,]” Giuliani said.

Rudy still loves to hob-nob with the rich and famous: He loves Palm Beach and Boca Raton:

“I’m in New York today. This weekend I’m going to Switzerland, but I’d probably be in Florida if I wasn’t. [Maybe] next weekend,” Giuliani said. “Some of my best friends live in Miami, Boca and Palm Beach… we know Florida, we enjoy Florida because we have so many friends there.”

And then there's Mukasey's odd comment about trying to get a mortgage.

When purchasing a residence in South Florida, even a former federal prosecutor can’t catch a break.

“The anti-money laundering check and background work took a long time. Actually they checked through every terrorist watch list, they checked every suspicious banking activity. They really put you through the ringer,” Mukasey said.

“But the idea that, in a potentially multi hundred million or billion transaction, we need to know who is buying and who is selling and where the funds are coming from, in general is very smart,” he added.

Is he talking about a personal mortgage or a huge commercial development? If it's the former, I'm not buying buying it. It seems like the latter, in which case the quote about residential mortgages is just misinformation. I highly doubt he tried to buy a personal residence in the multi-hundred million dollar range.

The country is such a nicer place when we don't have to read news and press releases about Rudy Giuliani.