Rudy Giuliani asks bankruptcy judge to let him hire attorney for appeal of massive defamation judgment

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Apr 19th, 2024, 2:56 pm


Rudy Giuliani is requesting a new addition to his legal team while emphasizing it is “imperative” he has a successful appeal of the recently upheld $146 million Georgia election workers defamation judgment that sent him into Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Giluani attorney Gary Fischoff filed an application with U.S. Bankruptcy Sean Lane on Wednesday seeking the court’s permission to hire Kenneth Caruso for a “flat fee” of $250,000 as “special litigation counsel,” starting on March 20. Fischoff explained that Caruso and his eponymous firm would be focusing on an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which Giuliani’s legal team hopes will end with him either having to pay Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss a substantially lower amount or eliminating the judgment in its entirety — this after the number was slightly reduced from $148 million to $146 million as part of the final judgment.

Giuliani’s legal team has maintained that the “outsized judgment” was “unreasonable on its face” and presented an obstacle in making his other creditors whole. “The Debtor believes the outsized judgment is unreasonable on its face and does not reflect the true damages, if any, suffered by Plaintiffs,” Fischoff said in January. “The Debtor expects to be successful in having the judgment modified or vacated. As such a substantial reduction in the Freeman claim would render a substantial benefit to the Debtor, his estate and his creditors.”

The Wednesday request for Caruso’s hire similarly called it “imperative” that Giuliani “succeed in an have excellent representation” in the appeal of the Freeman v. Giuliani judgment if bankruptcy “reorganization” proceedings are themselves to be successful.

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Full headline: Rudy Giuliani asks bankruptcy judge to let him hire attorney for appeal of massive defamation judgment — and their connection runs deep

Link to filing (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24557225/giluani-lawyer-request.pdf

[hlthe2b]

1. Honestly, the successful litigants should have priority in bankrupcy.

Mere plans to attempt appeals-- should not be allowed to totally wipe out the judgment--which may well be what he's going for.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Fortune says his net worth is down to $10 Million

That's probably just his real estate.

[NonPC]

3. Doesn't Include Cayman Bank Accounts

Gotta have a rainy day fund...

[niyad]

4. "succeed in an have excellent representation" ? A legal person who

cannot contruct a coherent sentence? And this is in the pleading?

[MissMillie]

5. When I think of these ladies...

I try to imagine having every aspect of my life destroyed... my job, my home, being able to use my own name...

... and then imagine how much money I would expect from someone whose LIES caused all this.

What amount of money would compensate me for that?

MULTIPLIED by TWO.

And yes, I would hope that whatever award I got would be a HUGE red flag for anybody that might consider ruining someone else's life like that.

[Old Crank]

6. You don't have to be a lawyer

To represent yourself.

Or try a public defender.

[mpcamb]

7. From LATimes A Rocky Road to Riches by Bob Drogin Jan. 25, 2008 12 AM PT

"In 2001, his last year in office, Giuliani claimed a net worth of about $1 million. In 2006, according to campaign records he filed last summer, he reported more than $17 million in income and about $50 million in stocks, business interests, real estate and other assets."

Where's the Stash, Rudi?

[Owl]

9. Where did all the money come from?

[machoneman]

8. What b.s.! "...presented an obstacle in making his other creditors whole." Since when did Rudy give a damn about...

making whole his other creditors? Never!

[no_hypocrisy]

10. And when he loses the appeal, that money will be deducted from his

dwindling assets that will fund the judgment due to those women. IOW, he's asking the court to have his victims fund his appeal.

No dice!