On Election Day 2024, Rudy Giuliani cannot escape the consequences of his defamation of two Georgia poll workers in the aftermath of Election Day 2020. A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the former New York City mayor to appear in court later in the week to explain why he allegedly "secreted away" his property and failed to transfer anything into the custody of former election workers Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, as he was ordered to do last month to fulfill a $148 million judgment. A judge last year found that Giuliani had defamed the mother and daughter when he falsely accused them of committing election fraud while they were counting ballots in Georgia's Fulton County on Election Day in 2020.
MORE: Giuliani must turn over luxury items, apartment to cover judgment in Georgia poll worker case Two weeks ago, Giuliani was ordered to transfer personal property "including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys' fees, and his interest in his Madison Avenue co-op apartment" to Freeman and Moss as part of the judgment. When the receivership controlled by the two election workers was finally granted access to Giuliani's Manhattan apartment, they discovered Giuliani "had moved virtually all of its contents out approximately four weeks ago--something that neither Defendant nor Defendant's counsel had bothered to mention," the poll workers' attorney, Aaron Nathan, said in a letter to the court. "Defendant nor his counsel thought to mention that the rece.