Giuliani to appear in a NYC court after missing a deadline to surrender assets

Rudy Giuliani will look successful a New York City courtroom connected Thursday to explicate to a national judge why he hasn’t surrendered his valuables arsenic portion of a $148 cardinal defamation judgment

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani will look successful a New York City courtroom connected Thursday to explicate to a national judge why he hasn't surrendered his valuables arsenic portion of a $148 cardinal defamation judgment.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ordered nan erstwhile New York City politician to study to tribunal aft lawyers for nan 2 erstwhile Georgia predetermination workers who were awarded nan monolithic judgement visited Giuliani’s Manhattan flat past week only to observe it had been cleared out weeks earlier.

The judge had group an Oct. 29 deadline for nan longtime state of once-and-future President Donald Trump to surrender galore of his possessions to lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.

The possessions see his $5 cardinal Upper East Side apartment, a 1980 Mercedes erstwhile owned by movie prima Lauren Bacall, a garment signed by New York Yankees fable Joe DiMaggio, dozens of luxury watches and different valuables.

Liman primitively scheduled a telephone convention astir nan situation, but he changed it to a proceeding successful Manhattan national tribunal that Giuliani must be aft nan judge learned astir nan sojourn to nan erstwhile mayor's apartment.

Aaron Nathan, an lawyer for nan predetermination workers, wrote successful a missive to Liman that nan residence was already “substantially empty” erstwhile representatives for his clients visited pinch a moving institution charismatic to measure nan proscription and retention needs for nan spot Giuliani was ordered to surrender.

He said nan group was told astir of nan apartment's contents, including art, sports memorabilia and different valuables, had been moved retired astir 4 weeks anterior — immoderate of it placed successful retention connected Long Island.

Representatives for Giuliani did not respond to an email Wednesday seeking comment.

They person truthful acold based on unsuccessfully that Giuliani should not beryllium forced to move complete his belongings while he appeals nan judgment.

Liman besides denied a petition from Giuliani's ineligible squad to postpone Thursday's tribunal quality to adjacent week aliases clasp it by phone, arsenic primitively planned.

A Giuliani spokesperson, meanwhile, dismissed nan ineligible wrangling arsenic intimidation tactics.

“Opposing counsel, acting either negligently aliases deliberately successful a deceptive manner, are simply attempting to further bully and intimidate Mayor Giuliani until he is rendered penniless and homeless,” Ted Goodman, his spokesperson, said earlier this week.

Giuliani was recovered liable for defamation for falsely accusing Freeman and Moss of ballot fraud arsenic he pushed Trump's unsubstantiated predetermination fraud allegations during nan 2020 campaign.

The women said they faced decease threats aft Giuliani accused nan 2 of sneaking successful ballots successful suitcases, counting ballots aggregate times and tampering pinch voting machines.