Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former attorney, will be asked further questions after being grilled during a contempt-of-court hearing last week for failing to turn over valuables to pay a $146 million defamation judgment against him.
In contrast to Friday’s court, Giuliani will testify virtually on Monday and answer questions from his counsel rather than the attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Shaye Moss, the two former Georgia election workers he was found guilty of defaming.
The question at hand is whether Giuliani should be found in contempt for refusing to turn over valuables, such as a New York Yankees jersey that Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio signed.
For not turning over the jersey and other artifacts meant to support their $146 million judgment against Giuliani, Freeman and Moss have requested U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman to put Giuliani in civil contempt.
The amount was given to the couple in their defamation case against Giuliani, who they said had disseminated false information regarding Trump’s 2020 election defeat, which led to a barrage of racial and violent threats directed at them.
After Giuliani regularly missed deadlines to turn up assets and financial data, their lawyers had pleaded with the judge in a court filing to impose the proper consequences to encourage him to comply with court orders.
The DiMaggio jersey was reported missing on Friday, and Giuliani refuted a claim made by his friend Monsignor Alan Placa that he had seen it framed on his Palm Peach, Florida, property in the previous two years.
Giuliani also denied concealing additional Yankees memorabilia, claiming he wasn’t concealing a signed photo of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, which the election workers’ lawyer claims was included as an asset in a bankruptcy filing.
Freeman and Moss’s attorneys have contended that Giuliani has shown a pattern of deliberate disregard for the Court’s Turnover Orders, pointing to his refusal to turn over the title document for a Mercedes-Benz convertible, cash in his bank account, and the proprietary lease and co-op shares to his estimated $6 million Manhattan apartment.
This week, Giulianii is also facing a second contempt case in Washington, D.C., regarding whether he should be punished for continuing to disparage Freeman and Moss on his America’s Mayor Live webcast, in violation of a court order.
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