Rudy Giuliani Forced To Surrender ‘His Only Vehicle’

Rudy Giuliani has said he is being forced to surrender his 1980 Mercedes-Benz SL500, once owned by actress Lauren Bacall, and a turban from a Taliban fighter killed by the first troops to enter Afghanistan after 9/11.
On Tuesday, New York Judge Lewis Liman ordered that the former lawyer for former President Donald Trump has one week to transfer his $6 million apartment at 45 East 66th Street, worth about $6 million, the Mercedes car, over 20 expensive watches and many other personal belongings to two election workers he defamed. The transfer must include his rights to the $2 million Trump owes him for legal services; cash in his bank account; and a signed Joe DiMaggio shirt.
The former New York City mayor was ordered to pay Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, more than $148 million in damages for false claims that they had added votes for Joe Biden while working as ballot counters in an election-count center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Giuliani circulated an edited clip of security footage that he wrongly claimed showed the pair passing USB drives. Moss and Freeman sued for defamation, and in December, a Washington, D.C., jury awarded them $148 million.
Newsweek sought email comment from Freeman and Moss’ attorney on Thursday.
Giuliani’s spokesman, Ted Goodman, said that the court is “forcing the mayor to relinquish his only vehicle. They’ve restricted his access to his personal bank accounts and his credit cards, and they’ve blocked him from his business accounts.”
Goodman said it was “painfully clear” that his political enemies “are attempting to bully and intimidate him into silence through the weaponization of our justice system and through obvious lawfare.”
“The court order forces the mayor to relinquish deeply personal belongings, including gifts from his children and close family friends. They are attempting to take everything from him, including a personal gift from his childhood hero Joe DiMaggio and a gift from the first soldiers who entered Afghanistan following September 11th.”
In his What Happened to America’s Mayor? live podcast and YouTube channel on Wednesday, Giuliani said that the soldiers had given him the turban and the sword of an Afghan fighter. Giuliani was mayor of New York at the time, and the U.S. invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban government was harboring 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
In the broadcast, Giuliani added that Joe DiMaggio gave him a signed shirt from his final season playing baseball. DiMaggio told him he was his hero because Giuliani had taken on the mafia as district attorney and was therefore helping Italian Americans get rid of the stigma of organized crime.
Giuliani said that he now had to surrender DiMaggio’s shirt as part of the court order. In addition, he also had to surrender his four baseball rings, which are given to the winners of the World Series. They were given to him by the Yankees owners, but Giuliani insisted on paying for them. He said that those rings are now also being seized.