Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was found to be in contempt of court for not turning over his assets to two Fulton County election workers after Giuliani was found to have defamed them following the 2020 election.
Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled Monday that Giuliani had failed to properly comply with evidence production requests over the last few months.
Some of those assets include a valuable signed Joe DiMaggio jersey that appeared to disappear after Giuliani said he last saw it around Sept. 11 in his Manhattan apartment.
Giuliani finished up his testimony Monday by appearing remotely from his Florida residence, where he explained why some assets and the paperwork related to them have been hard to locate and forfeit.
Giuliani conceded during Monday’s testimony that he sometimes did not turn over everything requested because he believed the requests were overly broad or inappropriate or even a “trap” set by lawyers for the plaintiffs.
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