Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are again asking a federal judge to force Rudy Giuliani to cooperate with court orders regarding his transfer of assets to former Georgia election officials.
In a filing Thursday, attorneys for Freeman and Moss said Giuliani failed to produce documents he was supposed to turn over before his Jan. 16 trial, when Giuliani plans to challenge the women's attempt to take over his Palm Beach, Florida, home , to confiscate. condominium.
The plaintiffs have asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman to find Giuliani in civil contempt and impose sanctions against him for “attempting to block a straightforward and abbreviated process.”
“It appears that Mr. Giuliani may be refusing to comply with the orders in order, at least in part, to force the court to accept further delays,” her lawyers said in the filing. “Mr. Giuliani's gambling spirit and willful disregard of court orders, as well as the burdens his misconduct in the litigation has placed on the parties and the Court, justify the imposition of these serious sanctions.”
On Friday, Liman ordered Giuliani to respond to the motion by Dec. 19 and appear at a hearing on the issue on Jan. 3. Giuliani's attorney did not immediately respond to MSNBC's request for comment.
Giuliani is in legal trouble related to the $148 million defamation judgment the women obtained against him in December 2023. Freeman and Moss do tried to collect the judgment since Giuliani's bankruptcy case was dismissed, as The former mayor of New York City has repeatedly exceeded court-ordered deadlines to release his assets, her attorneys said in court filings.
Liman had already threatened to hold Giuliani in contempt last month after the disgraced lawyer failed to turn over assets, claiming he didn't know where his possessions were.
Additionally, Freeman and Moss pointed in their filings to Giuliani's livestreams on Nov. 14 and Nov. 16, in which they said he repeated the defamatory claims against them. The women have asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to convict Giuliani for alleged contempt They are defaming, and Giuliani is scheduled to appear in court on December 12 for a hearing on that motion.
