NYC judge blasts Rudy Giuliani for claiming he doesn’t know location of assets owed to Georgia election workers

Rudy Giuliani was blasted by a Manhattan national tribunal justice Thursday, telling the erstwhile politician his claims helium didn’t cognize the determination of assets helium was ordered to crook over to the Georgia parent and girl predetermination workers helium defamed was “farcical.”

“The conception that your lawsuit doesn’t person immoderate cognition of wherever his assets are located is farcical,” Judge Lewis Liman scolded Giuliani and his defence team.

Giuliani, 80, was told much than two weeks agone to crook implicit his multi-million dollar Upper East Side co-op apartment, on with its contents, his currency accounts, sports memorabilia, furniture, jewelry and different valuables to partially fulfill the $148 cardinal judgement a national assemblage ordered him to wage Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss for falsely accusing them of ballot fraud during the 2020 predetermination Donald Trump mislaid to Joe Biden.

More than a week aft the Oct. 29 deadline has passed, Giuliani was summoned to tribunal aft Moss and Freeman’s lawyers alerted the judge that he’d emptied his E. 66th St. flat astir a period ago. Giuliani’s squad aboriginal informed them that items had been moved to a Long Island retention installation without specifying which ones. 

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Former Georgia predetermination workers Wandrea Moss is comforted by her parent Ruby Freeman, right, astatine the Capitol successful Washington, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Liman besides learned that Giuliani had been photographed successful his 1980 Mercedes-Benz, once owned by Lauren Bacall, astatine a Florida polling tract connected Election Day that’s besides connected the database of things helium indispensable springiness up.

On Thursday, Giuliani stood up successful tribunal and said the radical trying to instrumentality power of his assets had treated him “rudely.”

Sounding exasperated, Liman threatened to clasp the erstwhile politician successful contempt. “If helium doesn’t comply, I’m definite I’m going to get a question for contempt.”

Saying their queries had been “deflected oregon ignored,” Moss and Freeman’s lawyer, Aaron Nathan, asked the justice to either caution Giuliani oregon springiness him a clip and a spot to driblet disconnected his stuff. 

Giuliani’s lawyer, Ken Caruso, said everything helium had to springiness up was successful Palm Beach, a retention installation successful Ronkonkoma, L.I., and his E. 66th St. apartment. Liman told Freeman and Moss to fto Giuliani cognize by Monday wherever and erstwhile to driblet disconnected the items helium indispensable forfeit. Giuliani agreed to portion with Bacall’s car, watches, and different items sought by adjacent week. 

This photograph provided by the Financial Times shows Rudy Giuliani successful the rider spot of a Mercedes convertible astatine the aforesaid polling spot wherever Donald Trump formed his ballot connected Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, successful Palm Beach, Fla. (Alex Rogers/Financial Times via AP)

Earlier successful the hearing, Nathan said important issues astir Giuliani’s currency accounts besides needed to beryllium resolved. He said Giuliani’s broadside this week revealed for the archetypal clip slope accounts he’d opened successful July containing astir $40,000 and that helium and his associates had formed an LLC connected Aug. 30, Standard USA LLC, successful which helium has much than an 80% stake.

“Suffice it to say,” Nathan said, “it’s troubling that we learned astir it connected Monday for the archetypal time.”

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves tribunal successful New York, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

After Freeman and Moss were awarded the monolithic sum successful December, Giuliani filed for bankruptcy extortion successful Manhattan successful a substance thrown retired aft the justice recovered helium was not being forthcoming astir his finances. The parent and girl past brought the ongoing postulation effort.

The suit is 1 of respective Giuliani faces successful summation to transgression cases successful Georgia and Arizona stemming from his alleged predetermination subversion efforts. 

At a chaotic property league extracurricular the courthouse, Giuliani said, “They tin person each my property, but they’re not going to get maine to backmost disconnected from what I judge in.”

He empathically said “No!” erstwhile asked whether helium regretted defaming Freeman and Moss, prompting Caruso to leap successful beforehand of the mic to accidental the substance was being addressed connected appeal. Giuliani’s lies astir the 2 women forced them to fly their homes and discontinue their jobs. 

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves tribunal successful New York aft appearing earlier the national justice to explicate wherefore helium hasn’t surrendered his valuables arsenic portion of a defamation judgment, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Speaking astir his debunked claims that the past statesmanlike predetermination was rigged, Giuliani said, “I argued the lawsuit for Donald J. Trump due to the fact that I believed successful him. He’s entitled to person lawyers that judge successful him. That close was taken distant from him.”

“Someday your rights whitethorn beryllium taken distant from you if you proceed to fto this spell on,” Giuliani threatened journalists, past derided the Manhattan judges who presided implicit Trump’s “stupid” trials.

Asked whether he’ll question President-elect Trump’s assistance getting retired of the monolithic judgement helium indispensable wage Freeman and Moss, Giuliani said, “Mr. Trump doesn’t person to assistance maine get retired of it. All helium has to bash is straighten retired the ineligible system.”

Giuliani said he’d spoken with Trump since his triumph against Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I’m not going to archer you,” helium said erstwhile asked what they discussed.