A federal decide in New York on Monday held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of courtroom for failing to show over private property and data to 2 Georgia election staff he was discovered to have defamed.
Choose Lewis Liman sided with Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who mentioned Giuliani has “not turned over a single greenback” to fulfill the $148 million judgment in opposition to the previous New York Metropolis mayor.
The election staff mentioned Giuliani didn’t relinquish “a signed Joe DiMaggio shirt, signed Reggie Jackson image, signed Yankee Stadium image, or most of the numerous family items or furnishings that he valued at $20,000 and which public pictures present he possessed in his New York Condo.”
Giuliani was discovered liable in 2023 for defaming Freeman and Moss by falsely accusing them of tampering with the 2020 presidential vote in Georgia.
Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media exterior Manhattan federal courtroom in New York after testifying in a contempt listening to, Jan. 3, 2025.
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In a press release, Giuliani consultant Ted Goodman mentioned that attorneys “is perhaps comfortable to struggle to remove Mayor Giuliani’s most cherished private belongings together with his signed baseball jersey of his childhood hero and his grandfather’s pocket watch, however they’ll by no means take away his extraordinary file of public service.”
