won't save him from that 148 million debt to his defamation victims because the judge already ruled that he acted with willfull and malicious intent, and bankruptcy laws do not extend to court judgments which include willful and malicious injury caused to another entity or person. filing for bankruptcy won't make it go away.
also LOL
Judge hits Rudy Giuliani with ‘immediate’ enforcement of blockbuster verdict in defamation case
A devastating order blocks Giuliani’s attempts to delay paying $148m he owes election workers
Pointing to his history as an “uncooperative litigant” and concerns that he will try to “
conceal his assets” during any appeals, a federal judge has ordered that
Rudy Giuliani must “immediately” pay $148m to a mother-daughter pair of election workers who sued him for defamation.
Last week, an eight-member jury found Mr Giuliani owes Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss $16.2m and $16.99m respectively in compensatory damages, an additional $20m each for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and a further $75m in punitive damages.
The women then
asked the court to dissolve a 30-day pause in the order, fearing that Mr Giuliani “will use whatever time he has to alienate or dissipate what assets are available to satisfy even a small portion” of the judgment awarded to them
“If Giuliani had intentions of absconding with or fraudulently transferring assets, he has ample time to do it,” Mr Giuliani’s attorney
wrote in response.
In a
devastating order on Wednesday, US District Judge Beryl Howell – who has been repeatedly frustrated by Mr Giuliani’s attempts to evade evidence throughout the case – struck down his arguments, and criticised his apparent ability to hire a spokesperson while avoiding his obligations to the court and the plaintiffs.
“Giuliani’s position thus appears to be that just as he has shielded his true financial status from examination by refusing to comply with discovery rules and court orders, he could have already effectively used that shield to hide his assets to avoid paying plaintiffs’ judgment against him,” she wrote.
“Notably, though he regularly speaks publicly about this case, Giuliani has never denied that he has taken steps to hide his assets from judgment creditors, and has offered no affirmative pledge that he will take no steps to do so, including in the next 30 days,” she added.
His defence “only bolsters” the concerns outlined by Ms Freeman and Ms Moss, according to the judge.
Mr Giuliani’s claims that he has experienced “financial difficulties” are “difficult to square with the fact that Giuliani affords a spokesperson, who accompanied him daily to trial,” the judge wrote.
Judge Howell had already found Mr Giuliani liable for
defamation in a damning pretrial ruling earlier this year. Last week’s four-day trial in Washington DC sought to determine how much he owed.
The jury’s verdict delivers a massive legal and financial blow to Mr Giuliani, a prominent amplifier of
conspiracy theories about election fraud who is now at the centre of two criminal indictments stemming from attempts to overturn 2020 results.
The verdict adds to a mountain of other legal obligations, including the election interference case in Atlanta that also involves the same lies about the women he now owes
tens of millions of dollars.
A devastating order blocks Giuliani’s attempts to delay paying $148m he owes election workers
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