Rudy Giuliani: Lawyer says ex-NYC mayor ‘hid’ property from poll workers who wins $148M judgment

On Election Day 2024, Rudy Giuliani cannot escape the consequences of his defamation of two Georgia poll workers after Election Day 2020.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the former New York City mayor to appear in court later this week to explain why he allegedly “hid” his property and did not transfer anything into the custody of former poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, as he was ordered to do last month to satisfy a $148 million judgment.

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A judge found last year that Giuliani defamed the mother and daughter when he falsely accused them of committing voter fraud while counting ballots in Georgia’s Fulton County on Election Day 2020.

Two weeks ago, Giuliani was ordered to transfer personal property “including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys’ fees and his interest in his Madison Avenue condo” to Freeman and Moss, as part of the decision. .

When the bailiffs controlled by the two election workers finally gained access to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment, they discovered that Giuliani had “moved out virtually all of his contents about four weeks ago—something neither the defendant nor the defendant’s attorney knew about.” -they tired to mention him”. The election workers’ attorney, Aaron Nathan, said in a letter to the court.

“Neither the defendant nor his attorney thought to mention that the receivership property contained in the apartment was classified,” Nathan said in the letter.

“More troubling,” the attorney told the judge, “the defendant and his attorney refused or were unable to answer basic questions about the location of most of the properties subject to judicial review.”

“Except for a few rugs, a dining table, a few stray pieces of small furniture and cheap wall art, and a handful of smaller items such as dishes and stereo equipment, the apartment was emptied of all its contents,” it said in Nathan’s letter. “Remarkably, this includes the vast majority (if not all) of the receiver’s valuable property that was known to be stored there, including art, sports memorabilia, expensive furniture and other items not visible enough to appear in photographs listed”.

When recipients asked Giuliani’s representatives where the items were, Nathan said those questions were “mainly met with evasion or silence.”

A Giuliani spokesman said in response that “Mayor Giuliani made his properties and assets available as directed.”

“A number of items have been shelved over the past year and everything else that has been removed has been related to its two live programs which air every night of the week on its social media platforms,” ​​the spokesperson said. “Opposing councilors, acting either negligently or deliberately in a deceptive manner, are simply trying to further bully and intimidate Mayor Giuliani until he is penniless and homeless.”

Giuliani is scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon.

His lawyer had asked if Giuliani could appear by phone because he was scheduled to appear on a live radio show, but the judge wouldn’t allow it.