Rudy Giuliani expresses regret that he didn't take a pension in wake of bankruptcy

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani admitted he could use the pension he never applied for.

Giuliani told the New York Post that he was "giving back to the city I love" when he declined to apply for a pension. From 1981 to 1983, he worked as the assistant United States Attorney General before becoming U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York until 1989 and serving as mayor from 1994 to 2001.

"Although I would like to take it now,” Giuliani said of his pension. “I don’t know how to go about it.”

As a two-term mayor, Giuliani would have been eligible for $26,000 in annual pension payments after turning 62. At 79, Giuliani could have had $442,000.