NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani surrendered a Mercedes-Benz, watches and a ring on Friday to two Georgia election workers who successfully sued him for defamation — while still refusing to turn over other property to comply with a $148 million judgment against him.
The initial delivery comes as Giuliani is embroiled in a dispute over his legal representation and is trying to keep some items of his personal property.
The car and other items represent the first pieces of property, aside from access to his New York City apartment, that Giuliani has been forced to hand over to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who won the $148 million defamation verdict against him last year. But even as Giuliani began complying with court instructions to part with his belongings by Friday, he demonstrated more of the delay tactics and obfuscation that have defined his approach to the legal proceedings.
An attorney for Giuliani, Joseph Cammarata, told U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman that the former New York City mayor hadn’t given items in a storage facility to Freeman and Moss because a court-imposed restraining order prevented him from doing so. And, Cammarata wrote, certain categories of items the judge ordered Giuliani to turn over to the women are exempt by statute.