By Christian Martinez
LOS ANGELES, May 6 (Reuters) – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was released from the intensive care unit but will remain in the hospital for recovery, his spokesperson Ted Goodman said Wednesday.
• Giuliani, 81, was hospitalized in critical condition and was recovering from pneumonia, Goodman said.
• “The mayor and his family appreciate the outpouring of love and prayers sent his way,” Goodman said.
• Giuliani came to global prominence in 2001 as he led New York’s recovery from the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers, which his spokesperson said led to him developing restrictive airway disease.
• Giuliani’s later failed quest to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat tarnished his image as “America’s Mayor”, earned for his 2001 response to the al Qaeda attack.
(Reporting by Andrew Goudsward and Christian Martinez; Editing by Kim Coghill)
