Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudy Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.
The deliveries, which Giuliani’s lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, reported to the court Friday, were a long time coming for the women, who are mother and daughter. It was also a small down payment on what the former New York City mayor owes them.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Giuliani spread lies about the women, asserting without evidence that they tried to steal the election from President Donald Trump. At the time, Giuliani was working as Trump’s personal attorney and was helping to lead the effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
Giuliani’s false statements about the women led to a torrent of threats and harassment, upending the women’s lives and sending them into hiding.
Giuliani, who has about $11 million in assets, has taken nearly a year to get to this point. He filed for bankruptcy after a federal jury returned with a $148 million defamation judgment last December. But his bankruptcy case was dismissed about eight months later because he refused to cooperate with basic court orders.
Last month, Judge Lewis J. Liman of U.S. District Court in Manhattan ordered Giuliani to hand over his car, his Madison Avenue apartment and his valuable collection of jewelry and sports memorabilia within seven days to a receivership controlled by Freeman and Moss. That would enable them to start selling those items, the proceeds of which would serve as partial payment of the $148 million judgment against Giuliani.
Giuliani missed that deadline and subsequent others.
Earlier this week, Giuliani’s lawyers asked the judge for permission to withdraw as his counsel, citing ethical concerns. This threw into question, once again, when Freeman and Moss would receive the assets, the bulk of which come from his apartment in New York and his condo in Florida.
Trump owes Giuliani about $2 million in legal fees. Freeman and Moss are looking to collect that as well.
A trial set for January in New York is to determine whether Giuliani can claim his $3.5 million Palm Beach, Florida, condo as his primary residence, which, under Florida law, would keep it from being seized by Freeman and Moss.
In the letter to the court Friday, Cammarata requested a delay for the trial so that his client could attend Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20.
“There would be no harm to the plaintiffs by a delay of a few days in the trial schedule,” Cammarata wrote.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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