Rudy Giuliani plays hide and seek with “the vast majority” of his belongings he was ordered to hand over the mother and daughter to Georgia he was found guilty of defamation, the women’s lawyers said in court filings Tuesday.
About four weeks ago, Giuliani emptied his multimillion-dollar apartment on E. 66th Street, except for “a few rugs, a dining room table, some small misplaced furniture and some artwork inexpensive wall hangings, as well as a handful of smaller items, like dishes and stereo equipment,” according to the legal team of Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and Ruby Freeman.
A Manhattan federal judge two weeks ago I ordered Giuliani to cede control of his stake in the Upper East Side co-op apartment, as well as its contents, cash accounts, sports memorabilia, furniture, jewelry and various other valuables , to Freeman and Moss, to satisfy the $148 million judgment entered against Washington, DC. , a federal jury ordered him to pay for falsely accusing the two men of election fraud.
The women’s lawyers made the startling discovery on Halloween, after trying to gain access to the unit for two hours. The former New York mayor, Donald Trump’s lawyer and his attorney “have not provided any information on when this property was moved, where it was taken, or the conditions in which it is stored,” wrote Moss and Freeman’s attorney, Aaron Nathan.
Days after Giuliani said he would comply with the order, Freeman and Moss’ demands “were met primarily with evasions or silence,” Tuesday’s filing said. Giuliani informed them that “he doesn’t actually know” where the stock certificates or the apartment’s owner’s lease are; he said the items had been moved to a storage facility on Long Island – the aptly named “The America First Warehouse” – although he did not specify which ones.
Shortly after hearing about the hide-and-seek game, Manhattan federal judge Lewis Liman ordered Giuliani to appear before him on Thursday, rejecting Giuliani’s request to reschedule him so he could tape a show from Palm Beach.
In a document filed later Tuesday, Nathan reported to Liman that Giuliani was photographed in the 1980 Mercedes-Benz that belonged to Lauren Bacall – which Giuliani also had to renounce – at the Trump voting site on the morning of ballot. The former mayor’s lawyers told Freeman and Moss that the vehicle was in Florida — but not exactly “where it’s parked.”
“This latest revelation indicates that either he does not understand [his] obligations or, more likely, knowingly ignores them,” Nathan wrote.
Giuliani spokesman Ted Goodman, who was with him in Palm Beach, told the News Tuesday that Giuliani was waiting for documents from Moss and Freeman’s lawyers to transfer the car “and [we] I didn’t get a response.
“This is yet another attempt to make Mayor Rudy Giuliani – a man who has improved the lives of more people than almost any other living American – penniless and homeless,” Goodman said in a follow-up release.
Giuliani also made excuses for not transferring money owed from his cash accounts, the women’s lawyers said in their initial letter Tuesday. His lawyers told Moss and Freeman that a cease-and-desist notice on his Citibank account only allowed the transfer of $3,907.99.
Nathan disputed the excuse and said it raised “important questions about the location of other cash.”» in light of the five-figure funds withdrawn from the same account in July and August.
Judge Liman is still considering whether to force Giuliani to give up his $3.5 million Palm Beach condo, where Giuliani claims to liveand his Yankees World Series rings, which his son, Andrew, claims Giuliani gave him and which Andrew is suing to keep. The former mayor appeared to be wearing at least one of the rings during a virtual hearing last week in his sexual assault trial. in the presence of the Daily News.
Giuliani was ordered to pay Atlanta election workers a staggering sum in December after a judge found him responsible for repeated, malicious crimes accusing both women of corruptly attempting to help Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Her lies sparked a deluge of racist death threats that forced the mother and daughter into hiding.
“America’s Mayor” filed for bankruptcy following the ruling, but that case has since been dismissed, in part because Giuliani failed to disclose his finances and disobeyed court orders. After the bankruptcy proceedings were dismissed, Freeman and Moss initiated the current enforcement action.
Also this year, Giuliani was stripped of his law licenses in New York and Washington, D.C., due to his efforts at electoral subversion. He also faces a dizzying pile of lawsuits stemming from a wide range of allegations and two criminal cases in Arizona and Georgia relating to his election fraud claims, in which he has pleaded not guilty.
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