Rudy Giuliani Left Only Dishes, Rugs at ‘Emptied’ Apartment: Lawyer

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani left only dishes, rugs and “inexpensive” art as he stripped his $6 million apartment, a lawyer has alleged.
Attorney Aaron Nathan complained to New York federal judge Lewis Liman that Giuliani stripped the apartment weeks ago, in defiance of a court order to hand over his assets to two election workers he had wrongly accused of trying to rig the 2020 election for Joe Biden.
“Save for some rugs, a dining room table, some stray pieces of small furniture and inexpensive wall art, and a handful of smaller items like dishes and stereo equipment, the apartment has been emptied of all of its contents,” Nathan wrote in a submission to Liman on Monday.
Giuliani’s spokesman told Newsweek on Tuesday that he does not comment on Giuliani’s legal affairs.
Giuliani was ordered to pay Nathan’s clients, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, more than $148 million in damages for false claims that they had added votes for Joe Biden while working in an election count center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Giuliani’s apartment, at 45 East 66th Street, is worth about $6 million.
Giuliani accused Freeman and Moss of committing election fraud as ballot counters in Fulton County, Georgia. He circulated an edited clip of security footage that he wrongly claimed showed them passing USB drives.
Moss and Freeman sued for defamation, and in December, a Washington, D.C., jury awarded them $148 million.
Newsweek sought comment from Freeman and Moss’s attorney on Tuesday.
In late October, Liman gave Giuliani one week to transfer his $6 million apartment, the Mercedes car, over 20 expensive watches and many other personal belongings to a receivership set up for Moss and Freeman.
The transfer must include his rights to the $2 million Trump owes him for legal services; cash in his bank account; a signed Joe DiMaggio shirt and nearly everything in his apartment that was not of personal or sentimental value.
He also placed a restraining order on Giuliani preventing him from disposing of the assets that were to be transferred to the receiver.
However, in a court filing on Monday, Nathan claimed that Giuliani had taken almost everything out of the apartment in defiance of Liman’s order.
Nathan complained that Giuliani and his lawyers have remained silent when repeatedly asked about the location of Giuliani’s assets.
“That silence is especially outrageous given the revelation that Defendant apparently took affirmative steps to move his property out of the New York Apartment in recent weeks, while a restraining notice was in effect,” Nathan wrote.
Liman noted in response that he had scheduled a case status conference by phone on November 7.
However, he said that, in light of what Nathan was alleging, the status conference will be held in person at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, and he ordered that Giuliani must appear in person to explain himself.