Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani will answer more questions after facing questioning last week at a contempt of court hearing over his failure to turn over valuable items to satisfy a $146 million defamation judgment against him.
Unlike Friday’s hearing, Giuliani will testify remotely on Monday and answer questions posed by his lawyer, rather than lawyers for the two former Georgia election workers he was found responsible for defaming: Ruby Freeman and Wandrea.” Shaye Moss.
At stake is whether Giuliani should be held in contempt for defying court orders to hand over valuable items, including a New York Yankees jersey autographed by Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio.
Freeman and Moss asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman to find Giuliani in civil contempt for failing to hand over the T-shirt and other items meant to supplement his $146 million judgment against him.
The couple were awarded the sum in their defamation suit against Giuliani, who they said had spread falsehoods about Trump’s 2020 election loss, resulting in a barrage of racist and violent threats against them.
His lawyers had urged the judge in a court filing to apply “appropriate sanctions” to prompt Giuliani to comply with court orders after he repeatedly missed deadlines to turn over assets and financial data.
Giuliani said Friday that DiMaggio’s T-shirt was “disappearing” and denied a claim made by his friend Monsignor Alan Placa that he had seen it framed at Giuliani’s property in Palm Peach, Florida, in the past two years.
Giuliani also denied withholding other Yankees memorabilia, saying he was not “withholding” a signed image of Reggie Jackson, another Hall of Famer, who the poll workers’ lawyer said was listed as an asset in a bankruptcy document. .
Lawyers for Freeman and Moss have argued that Giuliani has demonstrated “a consistent pattern of willful defiance of the court’s surrender orders” and cited his failure to surrender the property lease and co-op shares of his Manhattan apartment. estimated at $6 million, the cash in his bank account and the title to a Mercedes-Benz convertible.
juliani also faces a second contempt proceeding in Washington, D.C., this week over whether he should face sanctions for continuing to defame Freeman and Moss on his livestreamed show “America’s Mayor Live,” defying a court-ordered settlement.
