Rudy Giuliani tells judge: ‘I gave everything I had to give’ as he prepares for a contempt hearing

As he prepares to return to a Manhattan courtroom to face the judge overseeing the transfer of his property to women he defamed, Rudy Giuliani urges him not to hold him in contempt.

In a series of court filings on Christmas Eve, the former New York City mayor pleaded with District Judge Lewis Liman to reject the request for sanctions from two election officials who said Giuliani repeatedly violated court orders – including missing deadlines and putting up barriers to his property to pay off tens of millions of dollars he owes them.

He also claims that the mother-daughter campaign workers he defamed in the explosive aftermath of the 2020 presidential election don’t even have a legal right to receive his property because they failed to take an oath as required by state law was required.

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Giuliani is expected to testify at a court hearing scheduled for Jan. 3, where Donald Trump’s former lawyer will say he “did not knowingly and/or intentionally and/or willfully violate or disregard court orders,” according to a letter to the judge “I got from his lawyer Joseph Cammarata.

In a separate filing to the judge, written by Giuliani himself, he swore that he had already handed over a long list of possessions to the women, just as he was ordered to do.

“I respectfully state that I did deliver the items I was required to surrender,” he wrote. “The court should ensure that I gave everything I could give.”

Giuliani “gave everything” the judge asked of me, “and out of an abundance of caution, additional items were provided to plaintiffs,” he added.

The files included lists of 42 items of property that he said were turned over on the court’s orders, including items moved from a warehouse in Ronkonkoma, New York, to another storage locker in Queens.

“I have not willfully or willfully disregarded any of this court’s orders or plaintiffs’ discovery requests,” Giuliani wrote. “If I didn’t provide documents, it was because I didn’t have them or couldn’t find them.”

He wrote that he had “fully or substantially complied” with the court orders and that he “should not be disrespected or penalized.”

But he also argues that the “seizure has not yet technically or legally begun” because the defamed poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss never signed an oath, which “must have been taken by a person authorized under the Real Estate Act to recognize of the State of New York and then filed with the court before the plaintiffs assumed their duties as bankruptcy trustees.”

“Even if plaintiffs could have taken the oath at any time, they failed to do so,” Cammarata wrote in a separate Christmas Eve filing.

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Earlier this month, lawyers for Freeman and Moss argued that Giuliani “did not hand over a single dollar,” nor did he hand over a “number of specific items of personal property that he was clearly requested to hand over” — including the title to his Mercedes-Benz convertible , keys to his Manhattan penthouse, valuable sports memorabilia and furnishings.

“At this point, it is even unclear where these properties are located,” they wrote in court papers.

Giuliani delivered a 1980 Mercedes-Benz convertible, more than a dozen watches and a “single diamond ring,” as well as access to his New York penthouse apartment, “but no keys or ownership documents,” so the women “that Browse “had to face significant logistical obstacles to a sale, including the presence of his ex-wife’s name on the title,” her attorneys said.

Additionally, he only delivered “some” of the items to a warehouse that he was supposed to open for the women, they argued.

During a court hearing last month, Liman warned Giuliani that he could face contempt charges if he fails to fulfill his “unconditional obligation” to return all listed property to the women, but Giuliani “has neither complied with that obligation nor provided any explanation for it.” “Why he couldn’t do this,” said the women’s lawyers.

At another hearing in November, Liman criticized Giuliani for “ridiculous” excuses about his wealth.

After Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, Giuliani falsely accused Freeman and Moss of manipulating election results in Georgia. They sued him for defamation in Washington, DC, and in December 2023 a jury awarded them $148 million in damages.

He then filed for bankruptcy, but after a protracted legal battle, the case was dismissed earlier this year so that Giuliani and his numerous creditors could fight for control of his assets in separate courtrooms to oversee the lawsuits against him.

Now the 80-year-old former mayor faces even more fines – or even prison time – due to the ongoing legal fallout from his false election claims during his flimsy campaign to keep Trump in office.

He will appear in court in Washington DC on January 10, a week after he attended a similar hearing in Manhattan, for allegedly violating a court order against repeating defamatory statements about the women.