Giuliani accused of spending money meant for bankruptcy case on his girlfriend and her daughter

Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy creditors accused the former New York City mayor of paying his girlfriend and her daughter rather than those who are owed money.

Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December after a defamation case left him owing nearly $148m to two Georgia election workers. Lawyers for the Committee of Unsecured Creditors — basically those Giuliani owes money — are pleading with the court to appoint a trustee — a move that the former mayor objects to.

The disgraced ex-mayor’s court filings indicate that “he is using his income to pay the salaries of his reported girlfriend and her daughter,” referring to Maria Ryan, who co-hosted the newly canceled WABC radio show with Giuliani, and her daughter Vanessa Fenderson, the lawyers wrote.

The filing noted Fenderson is a defendant in two criminal cases pending in Wake County, North Carolina. Public records show she faces drug-related charges.

Regarding both women, the lawyers argued Giuliani has not provided information on their employment or related salary.

Giuliani is using “his income, an estate asset, is being used to fund their salaries, as ‘employees’… instead of distributions to creditors,” the creditors’ lawyers wrote in the scathing filing.

His “estate should benefit from the work he actually does, not his girlfriend, his girlfriend’s daughter or any other third party,” they added.

The lawyers — who represent one of the two election workers Shaye Moss, Giuliani’s sexual assault accuser Noelle Dunphy and Dominion Voting Systems — urged the court to appoint a trustee due to Giuliani’s “dishonesty,” “incompetence,” “gross mismanagement” of his affairs and breach of fiduciary duty.

“This request is not meant to ‘punish’ but to protect the creditors and