Rudy Giuliani hands over assets to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss to pay off a defamation judgment

After weeks of delays, Rudy Giuliani has finally transferred the first of his assets to two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him, his lawyer said Friday.

Joseph Cammarata, who handled Giuliani’s case on Friday after his previous one Lawyers tried to remove himself as his legal representative earlier this week. They told a federal judge that Giuliani surrendered his luxury watches, a diamond ring and a 1980 Mercedes-Benz to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss that morning.

The collection of rings and watches were delivered to Georgia via FedEx and the car was delivered to a location in Florida at the request of Freeman and Moss’ counsel, Cammarata said in his filing.

At a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman rejected Giuliani’s claim that he did not know where his assets were and threatened him with contempt if he did not turn over his assets to the women by Nov. 11. Freeman and Moss, who have testified about the lasting damage Giuliani’s lies about them caused after the 2020 election, waited nearly a year to collect the defamation judgment against Giuliani.

The women’s legal team has done just that accused the disgraced lawyer of using various tactics to obscure and delay their ability to collect. Cammarata, in turn, suggested that Freeman and Moss are “very overly aggressive.”

This week, even as he turned over some of his assets, Giuliani tried to explain why he hadn’t parted with his assets. other assets. In Friday’s filing, Cammarata said other assets Giuliani owes the women are in a storage unit and cannot be moved because of the judge’s restraining order. (Giuliani did that too claimed he does not have access to the storage room.) Cammarata claimed that other items are exempt from the judgment, including “wearing clothes,” household furniture, dishes and cooking utensils.

In a video on X on Thursday, Giuliani’s spokesman, Ted Goodman, showed off the watches and ring shipped to Georgia. He lamented that Giuliani was forced to turn them over to Freeman and Moss, and again suggested that the verdict represented the weaponization of the justice system against the former New York mayor.