Looks like Trump has his own problems and Giuliani’s on his own
Rudy’s mess just keeps getting messier:
Attorneys for Rudy Giuliani’s creditors negotiating his Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed a request on Thursday, demanding that Giuliani reveal his financial secrets, including details on his cable TV earnings, the origin of his legal defense fund (led by his son), and even the nature of his work for Trump.
The far-reaching order is only possible thanks to allegations that Giuliani participated in “discovery misconduct”—that is to say, he failed to spill all the beans the first time around when he was sued by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
“Indeed, it was Giuliani’s discovery misconduct in the Freeman Litigation—concerning Giuliani’s defamatory statements about two Georgia 2020 election workers—that led U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell to enter a $148 million default judgment against Giuliani,” reads the motion, obtained by Law & Crime,
“Judge Howell found Giuliani’s misconduct in the Freeman Litigation so egregious that she further ordered immediate dissolution of the automatic thirty-day stay of enforcement of the judgment, allowing the plaintiffs in the Freeman Litigation to take immediate steps to enforce the judgment,” the motion continued, noting that Giuliani’s “willful shirking of his discovery obligations” effectively lost him the case by default.
The creditors think he’s hiding his assets and for good reason. He’s got a world of legal trouble: his multimillion-dollar judgment for defaming Freeman and Moss but also the Dominion and Smartmatic defamation suits and the Fulton County Georgia election case. And there’s that truly atrocious case from Noelle Dunphy, a former assistant, who has accused him of sexual harassment and assault.
Trump held one fundraiser for him at Mar-a-lago but I don’t think it could have possibly covered all the legal costs much less the judgments. He appears to have dropped Rudy completely now. He’s got his own legal and financial problems to worry about.
The big question is whether Rudy is under so much duress that he will plead guilty — and spill the beans. There’s no evidence that he will but you never know. He might just wake up one day and wonder if it was all worth it.