Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has until the end of next week to give the lawyers of the women he defamed the keys and title of his classic car, and ship them two dozen watches, furniture and sports memorabilia, or else face contempt sanctions, a federal judge said Thursday. At a lengthy court hearing in Manhattan, Giuliani grumbled frequently from the defense table and was given firm new orders by the district Judge Lewis Liman on how he must respond to the Georgia election workers to whom he owes nearly $150 million. Giuliani previously was told by the judge he was to provide Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgians he defamed after the 2020 election, many of his most valuable and sentimental possessions by last Tuesday.
His lawyer has tried to argue he was ready to provide the items and just didn’t know how. In court, Liman warned that Giuliani could be held in contempt and sanctioned “if he hasn’t delivered and there’s a way in which he could have delivered.” “The law is the law.
I don’t apply it differently to your client,” Liman said to Giuliani’s attorney, Kenneth Caruso. Several times the judge asked Caruso to speak with Giuliani, who sat at the defense table, hunched over, shaking his head and whispering exasperations loudly enough to be heard on the microphone in front of him. Caruso prompted a tense moment with the judge after he accused Moss and Freeman of being “vindictive” of winning Giuliani’s grandfather’s watch as p.