Georgia election workers launch bid to seize Giuliani’s assets as they try to collect $148 million defamation verdict

NEW YORK — The two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani sued him on Friday to seize his assets — including cash, jewelry, and his Upper East Side apartment — and to put him into receivership to take his Palm Beach condominium.

The move by the two Georgia women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, comes in the wake of a judge’s dismissal of Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, a decision that allowed the women, two of his biggest creditors, to begin pursuing his assets.

Freeman and Moss won a defamation lawsuit against the former New York City mayor last year for falsely accusing them of committing election fraud in the 2020 election.

If their move to seize his assets and put him into receivership is successful, it would be the latest in a string of stinging losses for Giuliani. In addition to losing the defamation case, he was indicted in Arizona in April in the state’s fake elector case and he was disbarred in New York in July.

In a court filing, lawyers for Freeman and Moss wrote that the seizure of assets and implementation of receivership were necessary because “Mr. Giuliani has proven time and again that he will never voluntarily comply with court orders, much less voluntarily satisfy Plaintiffs’ judgment.”

“At every step, Mr. Giuliani has chosen evasion, obstruction, and outright disobedience. That strategy reaches the end of the line here.”

A spokesman for Giuliani, Ted Goodman, lamented that “the justice system has been weaponized against Mayor Giuliani and so many others for strictly partisan political purposes.”

"The appeal of the objectively unreasonable $148 million verdict hasn't even been heard, yet opposing counsel continues to take steps designed to harass and intimidate Mayor Rudy Giuliani,” Goodman said.