Giuliani Faces New Lawsuit From Georgia Election Workers Over Luxury Condo
The Georgia election workers defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani in the aftermath of the 2020 election filed a civil suit against him on Friday, accusing him of trying to keep his multimillion-dollar condominium in Florida out of their reach in debt collection.
Mr. Giuliani, the onetime personal lawyer to former President Donald J. Trump, filed for bankruptcy last year after a federal jury determined he should pay the two election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, $148 million for spreading lies about them as part of his efforts to help Mr. Trump stay in office.
A New York bankruptcy judge dismissed Mr. Giuliani’s case last month because of his failure to comply with basic court requirements.
Mr. Giuliani signed an affidavit on July 13 stating that his Florida residence was his primary home, and therefore not eligible to be seized by his creditors under Florida law. But that is not enough under Florida law to establish primary residency.
According to the complaint, Mr. Giuliani has spent very little time at the condo in Palm Beach, Fla.
“He is trying to ‘toy with’ Florida’s homestead exemption to shield a multimillion-dollar asset from his creditors,” the women said in the complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, where Mr. Giuliani was once a U.S. attorney.
Citing publicly available evidence from Mr. Giuliani’s internet broadcasts, the complaint said that in the past 47 days, he had been somewhere other than Palm Beach for 34 of them.
Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss said in the complaint that Mr. Giuliani was still a New York resident. (He put his New York condo on the market this summer.)
The women, who are mother and daughter, placed a lien on the Palm Beach condo on Aug. 8. Their lawyers say that after the lien was