Rudy Giuliani is interviewed on September 9, 2022 about the September 11th 2001 (9/11/01) terror attacks in New York City (NYC). (File Photo by: zz/John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx 2022 9/9/22.)
When Rudy Giuliani defamed two poll workers with false claims of election fraud in 2020, which led to serious threats, causing one of the workers to leave her long-time home in Georgia. Now, the ally to former President Donald Trump — and his co-defendant in the racketeering case in Fulton County — is facing some housing issues of his own. In a motion filed Thursday, Giuliani, who owes election workers Ruby Freeman
and Shaye Moss $148 million for defaming them , asked a bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York to let him keep his condo, valued at $3.5 million, as heappeals the judgment Florida Giuliani's attorneys stated in the 12-page motion.
that the recommendation by the Committee on Unsecured Creditors to sell the home was premature. “If the Florida residence is sold and later it turns out that the judgment is reversed, the debtor could suffer irreparable harm,” the motion states. The committee told him there was “no legal basis” for him to keep the property.
Giuliani does not oppose the sale of his property in Manhattan, however. That property could be sold so he could make his primary residence in Florida, he contends. His lawyers noted that the New York property is expected to be listed by Sotheby’s soon for $5 million.
With that home sold, Giuliani said he expects “his
monthly expenses
will be significantly reduced.” Though he claims creditors are accusing him of operating with “reckless abandon and improper judgment” in his attempt to hold onto the Florida property, Giuliani says he is “using sound business judgment” by acknowledging that one property must be sold while he keeps the other to “grow his broadcast income,” the motion states. He argues that debtors should not be forced to sell property where there is a “valid business justification.
As bankruptcy proceedings have been underway, Giuliani has emphasized repeatedly that his income comes from broadcasting and podcasting businesses. As Law&Crime
previously reported
, the podcasts include Common Sense, which is distributed through YouTube, Rumble and Spike, as well as Uncovering the Truth, and The Rudy Giuliani Show. Giuliani streams those podcasts live on Instagram. “Once the New York apartment is sold, the debtor will need a place to operate the Podcast from if he is to earn any money therefrom, the only remaining location would be from the Florida Condominium. The debtor is actually saving money as he does not need to pay for and maintain both a Podcast studio and his residence in both New York City and Florida,” his attorneys wrote.They said that the income, and any future income he may earn, will only help the creditors.
It may be hard to predict how profitable those upcoming podcasts will be. Giuliani is still trying to stay important on right-wing sites. For example, on Thursday night during an appearance on the Rob Schmitt Tonight program for Newsmax, Giuliani criticized the judge overseeing Trump’s defamation case with writer E. Jean Carroll. He called the judge a “disgrace” and continued with his take on the judge’s findings.
“[Trump] was found not liable for rape,” he said. “It was sexual assault. Not rape. And second, you can be guilty of rape and still a person could be a whacko. That was the defamation — you’re allowed to defend yourself against defamation.”
Carroll claimed Trump raped and sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in the 1990s and at trial, she said he used both his fingers and penis to do so. The jury found he had only used his fingers, causing both immediate pain as well as long-lasting emotional psychological harm, as Law&Crime
previously reported
Rudy Giuliani on Trump being adjudicated a rapist: “It was sexual assault, not rape.” @Acyn.pic.twitter.com/yDdDl9mCV8
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) March 29, 2024
, but presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan explained even though jurors had not found Trump “raped” her under the technical definition — New York state law limits rape to the insertion of the penis into a person’s vagina — it “does not mean that she failed to prove Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.'” “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that,” LewisThe “whacko” reference by Giuliani echoes similar commentary Trump used to describe Carroll in a 2022 deposition when he called her a “whack job” and “sick.” That deposition was played for jurors at the this year defamation trial and when asked by attorneys if he stood behind it in 2024, Trump replied: “100%.”
A spokesperson for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. wrote.
When Rudy Giuliani defamed two poll workers with false allegations of election fraud in 2020, it triggered a wave of threats so severe, one of the workers was forced to leave her longtime home in Georgia. Now, the ally to former President Donald Trump — and his co-defendant in the racketeering case in Fulton County — is experiencing some domicile difficulties of his own.
A spokesperson for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.