A federal judge chastised Rudy Giuliani on Thursday for offering a “farcical” explanation of why he hasn’t complied with a court order to turn over valuables to former Georgia election workers he defamed after the 2020 presidential campaign. U.S.
District Judge Lewis Liman made the remark in a New York courtroom after Giuliani's attorney claimed that the former mayor wasn't sure where some of his belongings are. “The notion that your client doesn’t have any knowledge of where his assets are located is farcical," Liman told Giuliani lawyer Ken Caruso. Giuliani, a one-time personal attorney to President-elect Donald Trump, had been ordered to transfer personal property “including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables" to former election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss by Oct.
29 in order to begin complying with the $146 million defamation judgment against him. The judge ordered Thursday's hearing after attorneys for Freeman and Moss said Giuliani had failed to turn over any of the items he was expressly ordered to surrender, which include a signed Joe DiMaggio jersey, a luxury watch collection and jewelry. Lawyer Aaron Nathan said that when they entered Giuliani's New York apartment last week, they found that the valuables and some furniture had been removed.
Giuliani told reporters Thursday that "they lied" about items being moved. In a court filing, Nathan noted that a real estate listing for the $5.7 million apartment, which Giuliani has to turn o.
