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Reuters reports:
A federal judge on Thursday threatened to hold former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for failing to surrender his luxury apartment and other belongings to two Georgia election workers he defamed and owes $148 million.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan had on Oct. 22 ordered Giuliani, formerly a U.S. Attorney and personal lawyer to President-elect Donald Trump, to hand over the property to Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss within seven days.
The Associated Press reports:
Aaron Nathan, an attorney for the election workers, wrote in a letter to Liman that the residence was already “substantially empty” when representatives for his clients visited with a moving company official to assess the transportation and storage needs for the property Giuliani was ordered to surrender.
He said the group was told most of the apartment’s contents, including art, sports memorabilia and other valuables, had been moved out about four weeks prior and that some of it had been placed in storage on Long Island.
At the hearing, Nathan complained that efforts to get assets were met by “delay and then evasion.” Giuliani spoke directly to the judge at one point, saying he’d been “treated rudely” by those trying to take control of his assets.
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#BREAKING Rudy Giuliani stops to talk with me on his way into federal court in Lower Manhattan
Says former GA election workers are lying about him removing his valuables from his NYC home that a judge ordered him to surrender to the women after they won defamation lawsuit… pic.twitter.com/5aAX2n6WXg
— Linda Schmidt (@LSchmidtFox5) November 7, 2024