Judge threatens Giuliani with contempt if he doesn't turn over property to poll workers he defamed [View all]
Source: ABC News
A federal judge in New York on Thursday raised the possibility of holding Rudy Giuliani in contempt if he fails to turn over property by next week to the two Georgia poll workers he defamed after the 2020 election.
A 90-minute hearing devolved into what the judge called "griping" after a lawyer for former election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss accused Giuliani of "game playing" and an attorney for Giuliani accused the two women of being "vindictive."
A federal jury last year ordered Giuliani to pay Freeman and Moss nearly $150 million for defaming them with false accusations that the mother and daughter committed election fraud while the two were counting ballots in Georgia's Fulton County on Election Day in 2020.
Earlier this week, Freeman and Moss' attorney claimed that Giuliani had "secreted away" his property after the receivership controlled by the two election workers accessed Giuliani's apartment, only to find it virtually empty.
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