Rudy Giuliani's former deputy pleads for NYC's top lawyer position at brutal City Council hearing

Rudy Guiliani's former deputy mayor implored lawmakers to hire him as the Big Apple's top lawyer – as he tried to revive his seemingly dead candidacy during a brutal hearing Tuesday.

“Madam Speaker, I would be the best lawyer ever, just give me the chance, I beg you,” Randy Mastro pleaded with City Council members about his dream job. “I will earn your trust.”

Mayor Eric Adams' controversial nominee for corporate counsel endured hours of grueling questioning by combative council members who tore into the past 30 years as a trial lawyer.

During the heated debates in the council chamber, Mastro had to defend every aspect of his resume – from his time in the Giuliani administration to his work in exonerating former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the Bridgegate scandal to his recent lawsuit over New York's congestion charge.

“How can this council trust that you will faithfully represent the interests of all city departments, not just the mayor?” Council Speaker Adrienne Adams pressed Mastro several times.

“I have been doing this for 30 to 40 years, advocating for civil rights, constitutional rights and racial justice,” the experienced lawyer defended his resume.

“I have stood up to mayors, governors and presidents,” he said later when pressed again. “I will call the balls and punches of those I believe are in the right.”

“I am ready to serve. I don't know why my confirmation is so controversial.”

Mastro was first proposed as the mayor's nominee to head the law department earlier this year as the administration was planning to fire Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix.

Hinds-Radix has been at loggerheads with City Hall over a number of legal disputes, including after she raised questions about the city's representation of Adams in a decades-old sexual misconduct lawsuit.

Mastro's nomination faced a seemingly hopeless battle from the start, as relations between the legislators and the mayor's office were already strained – and Hinds-Radix, who was very popular with the city council, resigned in ignominy.

The vast majority of parliamentarians opposed Mastro almost immediately after the mayoral election was announced in April.

“If the mayor had worked better with the council, confirmation would have been easier,” a council source told the Post.

“The mayor knows how to get people to oppose him.”

The position of corporation counsel, the chief counsel for all city agencies, is one of the few positions in New York City government that requires the approval of a majority of the Council.

Mastro tried to make his case Tuesday for the prestigious post he has been looking forward to for years, pointing to his role as a federal prosecutor who went after the Mafia and repeatedly citing dozens of high-ranking lawyers and politicians who have testified in support.

He even argued that his successful lawsuits against the city benefited New Yorkers.

“I could help you draft a bill that is unassailable,” said Mastro when confronted with his legal arguments against the controversial city toll in New York.

The committee hearing was the culmination of a series of closed meetings in which Mastro secretly offered his services to council members.

Nevertheless, his chances of being confirmed at the next official meeting do not seem to be any better than they were months ago.

“I think it's very clear the votes aren't there,” said a city council source. “I'm not sure why the mayor nominated him.”

“Poor guy,” joked the source.