Giuliani creditors rip former mayor saying he is a ‘doddering’ man who treats bankruptcy as a ‘joke’
Rudy Giuliani has treated his bankruptcy process as “a joke,” his creditors claimed as they railed against the disgraced former mayor’s attempts to delay their investigation into his finances.
The ex-New York City mayor declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023 after a court determined that he owed a mother-daughter duo of election workers that he defamed $148 mmillion. Last week, Giuliani filed an application to convert his Chapter 11 case to Chapter 7 — meaning he could sell off his assets to pay for debt and would no longer have to provide a repayment plan to his creditors.
Thecreditors’ committee — those he owes money to including election worker Shaye Moss, his former employee-turned-sexual assault accuser Noelle Dunphy and Dominion Voting Systems — want his request to be denied, calling it a “farce.”
“Since day one, Giuliani has regarded this case and the bankruptcy process as a joke, hiding behind the façade of an elderly, doddering man who cannot even remember the address for his second multimillion dollar home and claims impending homelessness if he must sell that second multimillion dollar home,” the creditors’ lawyers wrote.
The request to change his type of bankruptcy “was not filed out of a genuine desire to quickly liquidate the Debtor’s assets for equitable distribution to his creditors. It is one last thinly-veiled attempt to game the system and is further support that the Debtor is dishonest, not trustworthy and has no respect for this Court or his creditors,” the filing from the creditors stated.
The creditors have expressed mounting frustration with Giuliani. The now-disbarred, ex-US Attorney has neglected to provide accurate or punctual financial disclosures, they said.
“Giuliani’s goal is to