Somebody needs to let Rudy Giuliani know that drinking and pretending none of his problems actually exist isn’t a sound legal strategy. That seems to be what he’s settled on, unfortunately, in the ongoing saga of Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, the Georgia election workers who won a defamation case against him.
Rudy has, of course, been ordered to pay them $148 million in damages, which includes turning over all kinds of things he loves. He’s dragged his feet on that every step of the way. But the findings in the case also require him to provide a lot of information he has not yet given the court, and his continual excuse has apparently been “I’m a very busy man.”
For Judge Lewis Liman, that just doesn’t cut it. He found Rudy in contempt on Monday, after the former mayor of New York “willfully violated a clear and unambiguous order of this court” and “blew past” a December 20th deadline to turn over evidence regarding whether he can prove whether the Palm Beach condo he owns is his primary residence or a vacation home.
“The fact that he is a busy person who in the past relied on others is not an excuse for noncompliance,” Liman said in court. And what’s doubly disgraceful for the former “America’s Mayor” is that the contempt citation comes in the very district where he cut his teeth as the top prosecutor.
Pro tip for Rudy and his grocery store vending machine lawyer: People who CAN prove what they’re saying do so immediately, especially when required by a court.
So we’ve got Rudy mad about turning over his money, his watches, his car, his houses, and all of his dignity as he fails to prove he really needs that condo in Florida, and what’s he really furious about?
Sketch artist Jane Rosenberg for Reuters says that Giuliani snapped at her during a break in Monday’s proceedings to tell her “You made me look like my dog!” This was after he had specifically asked her to make him look “nice,” a request that I’m not sure anyone could fully comply with even if they wanted to.
Anyway, I, for one, would never get a dog that looked like this. Also, Rudy has a dog? Why hasn’t he turned it over to Ruby and Shaye yet?
Rudy Giuliani asked courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg whether she would make him look “nice.” He thought she scrunched his face into a scowl in a previous courtroom sketch.
“You made me look like my dog,” Giuliani said, according to Rosenberg.https://t.co/6Z3iG1uZtD [1] pic.twitter.com/wAYRDwMxBJ [2]— Courtroom Art (@courtroom_art) January 3, 2025 [3]