turned up to vote in for Tuesday’s presidential election in a Mercedes Benz convertible that a court had ordered him to surrender more than a week ago as part of a to two Georgia poll workers he defamed. The 1980s car, once owned by the actor Lauren Bacall, is among the assets of the disgraced former New York mayor and vocal acolyte that Giuliani is deliberately hiding from their reach, their attorney, Aaron Nathan, sent to the judge in the case. Additionally, Nathan said, the contents of Giuliani’s $5m Manhattan apartment to which the pair are also entitled were stripped out some weeks ago in contravention of the judge Lewis Liman’s receivership order.

Nathan said Giuliani had deliberately ignored the court’s deadline for handing over the assets. “[Giuliani] has yet to reveal where the vast majority of the receivership property is actually located, despite repeated requests to his counsel,” said the letter, sent on behalf of the poll workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss. “That silence is especially outrageous given the revelation that the defendant apparently took affirmative steps to move his property out of the New York apartment in recent weeks, while a restraining notice was in effect.

Furthermore, despite the cooperative pose [he] put on in his letter of October 29, the receivers’ inquiries since that time have been met predominantly with evasion or silence.” In addition to the Upper East Side apartment, Giuliani was ordered to turn over se.