Rudy Giuliani Basically Dubbed a Deadbeat by Bankruptcy Judge

Earlier this month, we learned that Rudy Giuliani had earned the ire of the people he owes nearly $150 million to, on account of (1) blowing through the $43,000-a-month budget he told a bankruptcy court he would stick to, (2) allegedly lying about the value of his assets, and (3) continuing to live in his $3.5 million Palm Beach condo, instead of selling it and distributing the proceeds to his creditors. And as it turns out, those creditors aren’t the only people who think the former New York City mayor is a total bum.

On Tuesday, the judge overseeing Giuliani’s bankruptcy case was left aghast by the fact that the former attorney to Donald Trump has appeared to make no effort to pay the election workers he was found liable for defaming last year and ordered to pay $148 million. “They have done nothing. They sold nothing. They settled nothing,” Rachel Strickland, an attorney representing election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, said of Giuliani’s team, accusing the ex-mayor of getting fired from his radio job on purpose. “I agree with you,” US bankruptcy judge Sean Lane replied, according to Politico. “And I am disturbed about the status of this case.” (Last week, Giuliani was suspended from his show on WABC Radio after the station said he repeatedly aired false claims about the 2020 election.) Also on Tuesday, Lane denied a request from Giuliani to lift a legal barrier that has prevented him from challenging the $148 million judgment, a move that the creditors’ lawyers say would only delay the proceedings.

Since filing for bankruptcy last year, Giuliani has missed multiple deadlines to file spending reports, according to The New York Times, leading creditors to wonder in court filings “what he is hiding.” Bruce A. Markell, a bankruptcy law professor at Northwestern’s Pritzker law school, told the outlet that based on the actions they’ve taken in court so far, Giuliani’s creditors clearly “don’t trust [him] as far as they could throw him.”

According to Politico, lawyers for the former mayor told Judge Lane that he has lined up additional sources of income, but did not detail what those income sources actually are. They also claimed he will file the required financial filings he has yet to turn over.

In other Giuliani legal news, Arizona prosecutors say they have been trying, and failing, for weeks to serve the former mayor with a summons related to his indictment by a grand jury for trying to overturn the 2020 election. If he does not appear before a judge by May 21, prosecutors could issue a warrant for his arrest, according to The Washington Post.

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