Giuliani turns over some assets to Freeman and Moss as he fights to keep others
After weeks of delay, Rudy Giuliani has finally turned over the first of his assets to two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him, his lawyer said Friday.
Joseph Cammarata, who took Giuliani’s case on Friday after his previous attorneys sought to remove themselves as his legal representation earlier this week, told a federal judge that Giuliani has surrendered his luxury watches, a diamond ring and a 1980 Mercedes-Benz to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss that morning.
The ring and watch collection were delivered to Georgia via FedEx, and the car was delivered to a location in Florida at the request of Freeman and Moss’ counsel, Cammarata said in his filing.
In a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman dismissed Giuliani’s claim that he did not know where his assets were and threatened to hold him in contempt if he did not turn his property over to the women by Nov. 11. Freeman and Moss, who testified about the enduring harm caused by Giuliani’s lies about them after the 2020 election, have waited for nearly a year to collect on the defamation judgment against Giuliani.
The women’s legal team has accused the disgraced lawyer of using various tactics to obfuscate and delay their ability to collect. Cammarata suggested in turn that Freeman and Moss are being “very overly aggressive.”
This week, even as he handed over some of his assets, Giuliani sought to explain why he hadn’t relinquished other possessions. In the filing Friday, Cammarata said that other assets Giuliani owes the women are in a storage facility and cannot be moved due to the judge’s restraining order. (Giuliani has also claimed he has no access to the storage facility.) Cammarata claimed that other items are exempt from the judgment, including “wearing apparel,” household furniture, tableware and cooking utensils.
In a video on X on Thursday, Giuliani’s spokesperson, Ted Goodman, displayed the watches and the ring that were shipped to Georgia. He lamented that Giuliani was being compelled to hand them over to Freeman and Moss, suggesting again that the judgment represented the weaponization of the justice system against the former New York mayor.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
