Judge Orders Giuliani to Forfeit Millions in Assets to Election Workers He Defamed

The onetime personal attorney to former President Donald J. Trump has seven days to turn over his Manhattan condo, a vintage Mercedes-Benz and other possessions.

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Rudolph W. Giuliani at the Republican National Convention in July. After the 2020 election, he spread false statements that two election workers in Georgia, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, tried to steal the election from Donald Trump.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to turn over most of his possessions and available cash to a receivership controlled by the two Georgia election workers he defamed after the last presidential election.

Mr. Giuliani, 80, has seven days to make the transfer, which includes his New York condominium and his vintage Mercedes-Benz, once owned by the actress Lauren Bacall. The judge also ordered him to turn over certain pieces of furniture, his television, sports memorabilia, jewelry and 26 watches, including one that Mr. Giuliani said his grandfather gave him.

“The watch may be distinctive to defendant as an item of sentimental value, but it is not distinctive to the law,” Judge Lewis J. Liman of Federal District Court in Manhattan wrote in the order issued on Tuesday. For now, Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, can hold on to his father’s Yankee World Series rings while lawyers look into whether they were indeed a gift from father to son, as Andrew Giuliani has told the court.

Once the transfers are made, the two election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, can begin selling the assets and putting the proceeds toward the more than $148 million a federal jury determined he owes them. Judge Liman also said Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss could sue former President Donald J. Trump for the $2 million he owes Mr. Giuliani in unpaid legal bills.

Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss have been waiting nearly a year to be paid for the damage to their reputations caused by Mr. Giuliani, a onetime personal lawyer to Mr. Trump and mayor of New York. Mr. Giuliani has reported about $10 million in assets.

After the 2020 election, Mr. Giuliani spread false statements that the women tried to steal the election from Mr. Trump. The accusations circulated swiftly across social media and led to violent threats against the women and their families.

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