Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani in 2023 asked a court on Friday to award them his apartment in Manhattan and property such as New York Yankees’ memorabilia, including three World Series rings.
Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss asked a judge in New York City to order Giuliani to give up the assets in order to pay off his debt to them.
Freeman and Moss also sought to claim around $2 million that Giuliani has said is owed to him by Donald Trump‘s 2020 presidential campaign. Additionally, they aimed to seize control of Giuliani’s Palm Beach, Florida, condominium through a legal mechanism known as receivership, as well as his Mercedes-Benz and more than two-dozen luxury watches.
Giuliani declared bankruptcy in December 2023 after a jury awarded $148 million to Freeman and Moss. As an attorney for Trump in 2020, Giuliani falsely accused the mother and daughter duo of adding ballots for Joe Biden, who won the state.
Freeman and Moss are seeking to collect what the former mayor owes them following the collapse of his bankruptcy case last month, which had temporarily halted their efforts.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is seen at a designated protest area near the United Center, which hosted the Democratic National Convention (DNC), on August 20, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. On Friday, two former Georgia election workers requested that a judge order Giuliani to hand over his homes and New York Yankees memorabilia to pay off a debt he owes them.
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Lawyers for Moss and Freeman said that if the former New York City mayor does not relinquish his properties to them, they will begin to seek other options, citing Giuliani’s history of “evasion, obstruction, and outright disobedience.”
“That strategy reaches the end of the line here,” lawyer Aaron Nathan wrote.
In a statement to the Associated Press (AP), a spokesperson for Giuliani, Ted Goodman, said the filing by the former election workers is “designed to harass and intimidate the mayor” while he seeks to appeal the “objectively unreasonable” ruling.
“This lawsuit has always been designed to censor and bully the mayor, and to deter others from exercising their right to speak up and to speak out,” Goodman said. He contends that the “the justice system has been weaponized” against Giuliani “and so many others for strictly partisan political purposes.”
In addition to his bankruptcy case, Giuliani was also disbarred earlier last month from practicing law in New York for repeatedly lying that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
Goodman previously said that Giuliani did nothing wrong in connection to the 2020 election and said that the disbarment was “directly connected to the Biden regime’s ongoing efforts to take down President Trump and anyone willing to stand up against them.”
This article includes reporting from the Associated Press.
