Rudy Giuliani insists he is not hiding assets at contempt hearing
Lawyers are attempting to recover 148 million dollars after the former New York mayor was found to have defamed two Georgia election workers.
Rudy Giuliani has insisted at a contempt hearing that he is not hiding assets from lawyers trying to recover 148 million dollars (£119 million) after a defamation judgment in favour of two Georgia election workers.
Judge Lewis J Liman seemed less inclined to find the former New York mayor in contempt for failing to turn over some of his assets, including a valuable signed Joe DiMaggio jersey that appeared to go missing after Giuliani said he last saw it around September 11 in his Manhattan apartment.
The contempt hearing in Manhattan comes after Giuliani was found in 2023 to have falsely accused the two workers of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
The judge said Giuliani can finish his evidence on Monday by appearing remotely from his Florida residence as he explains why some assets and the paperwork related to them have been hard to locate and forfeit.
When he asked a lawyer for the two election workers if the plaintiffs were more interested in recovering assets than finding Giuliani in contempt, attorney Meryl Conant Governski quickly agreed, saying contempt was not “our primary goal”.
Ms Governski, more matter-of-fact than confrontational, elicited from Giuliani how overwhelmed he felt by court orders coming at him in multiple cases across the country at once.
