A.G. Gancarski
A federal judge is signaling that Rudy Giuliani’s contempt hearing next Friday might not end so well for the former New York City mayor and onetime personal lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump as two Georgia election poll workers try to collect a $148 million defamation award they won against him.
Judge Lewis J. Liman in Manhattan issued an order Friday in which he was dismissive of what he described as attempts by Giuliani and his lawyer to dodge providing information to the election workers’ lawyers.
And he said the litigants should be ready at the contempt hearing to explain why he should not grant a request by lawyers for the two election workers that he make adverse inferences from evidence in the case that would put Giuliani’s Palm Beach, Florida, condominium in danger of being surrendered to satisfy the defamation award.
The judge also said he may rule on the contempt request at the hearing.
Giuliani has maintained that the Palm Beach property is his personal residence now and should be shielded from the judgment. He faces a Jan. 16 trial before Liman over the disposition of his Florida residence and World Series rings.
Lawyers for the election workers filed the contempt request after saying Giuliani had failed to turn over a lease to his Manhattan apartment, a Mercedes, various watches and jewelry, a signed Joe DiMaggio shirt and other baseball momentos. The judge ordered Giuliani to turn over the items in October.
Giuliani’s lawyers have predicted that Giuliani will eventually win custody of the items on appeal. A request for comment was sent to a lawyer for Giuliani, who was supposed to be deposed on Friday.
The contempt hearing follows a contentious November hearing in which Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, became angry at the judge and said Liman was treating him unfairly.
Giuliani was found liable last year for defaming the two Georgia poll workers by falsely accusing them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
The women said they faced death threats after Giuliani falsely claimed they sneaked in ballots in suitcases, counted ballots multiple times and tampered with voting machines.
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Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
17 comments
MH/Duuuval
December 28, 2024 at 5:53 pm
Come to Florida and protect your multimillion-dollar residence from a legal judgment. (Sometimes referred to as the Bowie Kuhn exception.)
Lock him up!
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Red Storm
December 29, 2024 at 11:00 am
I always thought it was known as the OJ Simpson exemption.😜
MH/Duuuval
December 29, 2024 at 2:59 pm
Black folks doing wrong is your default position. Kuhn came to Florida two decades before OJ.
Victoria Olson
December 28, 2024 at 6:59 pm
Why is it Republicans from Trumps Corrupt administration who have been sued & lost refuse to pay up . No one is above the law, if an example was made of st least one of these losers get sent to jail for non-payment this nonsense would end.
Earl Pitts American
December 28, 2024 at 7:04 pm
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So 8 years ago America,
Thank you America,
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The Cat In The MAGA Hat
December 29, 2024 at 7:36 am
It been actually 4 years
Paul Passarelli
December 28, 2024 at 7:41 pm
I remain reasonably certain that the poll workers lied, or were at the very least aware of foul play, and are probably guilty of the accusations.
It is beyond comprehension that two poll workers could be awarded $148 Million dollars!
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December 31, 2024 at 9:38 am
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PeterH
December 28, 2024 at 8:53 pm
One time 9-11 hero….. now a national disgrace.
Ocean Joe
December 29, 2024 at 12:50 pm
America’s mayor, who went from locking up the mob in NYC, to briefly presidential front runner, to SNL guest, to possibly deranged Trumper, outcrazied only by the My Pillow guy, willing to say or claim anything in order to help a guy who then stiffed him. Willing to ruin the lives of two election workers. And now that Trump won, we all know the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. It was all a lie.
Poor Rudy did it all for nothing.
Cindy
December 29, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Accusations never became defamation loads of innocent people behind bars.the. accused and the acusser
Cindy
December 29, 2024 at 6:27 pm
So if accused of a crime and no evidence of so. Is that defamation that just ruined your reputation
Cindy
December 29, 2024 at 7:11 pm
Julie should have left that in N.Y I read they only fine 5000 or less..millions someone just hit 🎯.
I would see that in a life time worth
MH/Duuuval
December 30, 2024 at 10:33 am
There was plenty of evidence that the persons G accused of crimes were not guilty, but G kept perpetuating his lie..
“Giuliani was found liable last year for defaming the two Georgia poll workers by falsely accusing them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
“The women said they faced death threats after Giuliani falsely claimed they sneaked in ballots in suitcases, counted ballots multiple times and tampered with voting machines.”
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