Earlier this month, we learned that Rudy Giuliani Have earn the outrage of the people he owed nearly $150 million to, for (1) blowing through the $43,000 a month budget he told the bankruptcy court he would stick to, (2) accused of lying of the value of his assets, and (3) continue to live in his $3.5 million Palm Beach apartment, rather than sell it and distribute the proceeds to creditors. And it turns out, those creditors aren’t the only ones who think the former New York City mayor is a bum.
On Tuesday, the judge overseeing Giuliani’s bankruptcy case was Terrifying left by the fact that he is a former lawyer Donald Trump Apparently making no effort to pay election workers, he was convicted of defamation last year and ordered to pay $148 million. “They did nothing. They couldn’t sell anything. They can’t solve anything,” Rachel Strickland, an attorney representing election officials Ruby Freeman And Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, said of Giuliani’s team, accusing the former mayor of intentionally firing him from his radio job. “I agree with you,” said the US bankruptcy judge Sean Lane responded, according to Politico. “And I’m disturbed about the status of this case.” (Last week, Giuliani was suspended from his show on WABC Radio after the station said he repeatedly made false claims about the 2020 election.) Also on Tuesday , Lane denied Giuliani’s request to remove the legal hurdle that had prevented him from challenging the $148 million Judgment, a move that creditors’ lawyers said would only delay the process. proceedings.
From submit Because of bankruptcy last year, Giuliani was miss Many deadlines to submit expense reports, according to New York Times, leaving creditors wondering in court filings “what is he hiding.” Bruce A. Markell, a bankruptcy law professor at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, told the agency that based on the actions it has taken in court so far, Giuliani’s creditors are clearly “distrustful.” [him] as far as they could throw him.
According to Politico, the former mayor’s lawyers told Judge Lane that he had arranged additional sources of income, but did not detail what those sources of income actually were. They also claimed he would submit the necessary financial documents, which he has yet to submit.
In other Giuliani legal news, Arizona prosecutors said they tried and failed for weeks to serve the former mayor with a summons in connection with his indictment by a grand jury for tried to overturn the 2020 election. If he does not appear before a judge by May 21, prosecutors could issue a warrant for his arrest, based on The Washington Post.
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