Rudy Giuliani must immediately pay the $148 million he owes two Georgia women he falsely accused of helping steal the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a scathing order accusing the former Trump attorney of ongoing dishonesty.
Judge Beryl A. Howell wrote that there is a strong danger Giuliani is likely to hide his assets from plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss and is unlikely to succeed in having last week’s the jury verdict overturned or cut down on appeal.
Attorneys for the two women still have to enforce the judgment against Giuliani, which may involve further court proceedings. But they do not have to wait the standard 30 days to begin trying to seize his assets.
It won't happen, but I would enjoy watching him spend his last couple of years of life walking the streets of New York all day, pushing a shopping cart and talking to pigeons as if they were Trump.
I'm in no way trying to normalize whatever the fuck Rudy Giuliani is, but it's honestly pretty common in civil cases for the party found to owe money to not pay, and the legal mechanisms to force payment are limited
That said, I hope these women's attorneys rake him over the fucking coals and he ends up homeless and destitute
Does Rudy Giuliani have $148 million? Most people with $148 million aren't doing Cameo.
I get it, presumably this would mean garnishment of everything he does have, or has coming in. Which would be nice. Everyone can make him record humiliating messages and election workers who he defamed get the money for it.
Roughly $30m in liquidatable assets, $400k/yr residual income, and the ability to generate between 5 and 10 million a year in speaking fees, IF people will still pay to hear him speak (and I have absolutely no clue if that's a yes or a no tbh... Kind of a double edged sword, ya know?). His cameo is very much small potatoes by comparison.
He's pretty notably competent at spending more than he has though, so it's kinda hard to put a price tag on his ass...
I keep hoping Rudy or someone else in their circle gets desperate enough to try to get their hands on their hidden Russian mob money. Expose the entire network.
Would be so great if Rudy gets so desperate that he defects to Russia. I betcha the maga crowd would somehow rationalize it all despite the serious cognitive dissonance it would take to overcome.
I also get that if a typical person is in debt, it's reasonable to allow them to keep their home, keep their car, and keep working at their job so that they can pay off their debt.
But, for someone who's rich but owes hundreds of millions, the same rules can't apply. That's how you have Alex Jones spending $100k per month while owing over $1 billion.
Also, while the judgements might get paid off quicker of these people can keep doing whatever their lucrative business was before they were sued, in many cases they were sued because their business is so toxic to the world: Alex Jones denying massacres, Rudy Giuliani siccing a right-wing mob on election workers, Trump threatening judges, etc.
Maybe they should be forced to sell off all their assets, everything, and then have the option to rent them back from the people they owe money to. Maybe they should be forced to sell everything and live in a rented apartment taking public transit until their obligations are met. Maybe the court could appoint a spending advisor who has to OK every request to spend money over a certain amount. I guess it's no surprise that a bankruptcy system that sort-of makes sense when dealing with poor or middle income people breaks down entirely when trying to deal with the rich.
Once got a book in my hands, an unauthorized bio of him from the early 2000s, not bad speaking him, just stating facts, quite short. What an ass. Seriously.