NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani cleared out valuables from his Manhattan apartment weeks before a court deadline to surrender his belongings as part of a $148 million defamation judgment , according to a letter filed in federal court Monday. Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss — the two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgement — also said in their Manhattan court filing that Giuliani and his lawyers have refused to answer basic questions about the location of most of the valuables subject to the court order. “That silence is especially outrageous given the revelation that 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 and while a turnover motion was pending with respect to that property,” wrote Aaron Nathan, an attorney for the election workers.
The letter to U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman comes after the deadline for the former New York City mayor and legal adviser to Donald Trump to surrender items passed last week without any assets changing hands.
Lawyers for the women were given access to the Upper East Side apartment Thursday in order to assess, along with a moving company representative, the transportation and storage needs for the property meant to be turned over. Nathan, in his letter, said the residence was already “substantially empty” when the group arrived and that they were told.
