Cash-strapped former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is allegedly not “ready” to hand over his New York City apartment after a federal judge ordered him to turn over his Manhattan penthouse and other valuables to two election workers he defamed.
A judge last week ordered Giuliani to transfer his Madison Avenue co-op apartment — along with cash, 26 watches, his Mercedes Benz that was allegedly previously owned by Lauren Bacall and other valuables — to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whom he has been ordered to pay $150 million in a defamation verdict. Now, he is not “ready” to make the transfer — even though movers plan to come to his apartment Thursday.
On Tuesday, his lawyer Kenneth Caruso wrote in a letter to the judge that Giuliani was “ready to make the turnovers” and was waiting for Freeman and Moss’ lawyers to send over documents pertaining to the transfer of shares in his apartment.
Aaron Nathan, a lawyer for Freeman and Moss, said in a Wednesday evening filing that they have “continued their preparations to take possession of the receivership property, and those preparations are now substantially complete.” Nathan also noted, “in the interest of correcting the record and dispelling any misimpressions caused by [Caruso’s] letter,” that the election workers’ team had sent “several emails” about the status of the property to Giuliani’s team that “went unanswered”.