Ex-election workers want Rudy Giuliani's apartment, Yankees rings in push to collect $148M judgment
Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a court Friday to award them the cash-strapped former New York City mayor’s apartment and other property as they ramp up efforts to collect on the staggering debt.
Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss urged the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to force Giuliani to turn over his Madison Avenue apartment, any remaining cash and some of his prized New York Yankees memorabilia, including three World Series rings and a signed Joe DiMaggio shirt.
Freeman and Moss also staked a claim to about $2 million Giuliani has said Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign owes him and they sought to take control of another Giuliani property — his Palm Beach, Florida, condominium — through another legal mechanism known as receivership.
Freeman and Moss, the mother and daughter targeted by Giuliani in the wake of Trump’s 2020 election loss, are looking to chip away at what the ex-mayor owes them following the collapse last month of his bankruptcy case, which had paused collection.
If Giuliani does not turn over his property in a timely fashion, Freeman and Moss' lawyers said they will see other remedies to wrest control, citing his history of “evasion, obstruction, and outright disobedience.”
“That strategy reaches the end of the line here,” lawyer Aaron Nathan wrote.
Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman criticized Friday's filing as a step “designed to harass and intimidate the mayor” while he's appealing the “objectively unreasonable” judgment.
“This lawsuit has always been designed to censor and bully the mayor, and to deter others from exercising their right to speak up and to speak out," Goodman said. He contends that