Giuliani urges judge not to reveal why his former lawyers quit in defamation case from election workers

Source: Law & Crime

Dec 23rd, 2024, 11:02 am


Rudy Giuliani is asking a federal judge in New York not to release court documents detailing why his two attorneys suddenly quit while representing him in the receivership case concerning the $148 million he owes to the two Georgia election workers he defamed.

The defamed election workers — Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss — have been in ongoing and often contentious litigation with Giuliani to collect on that judgment.

The filing, from Giuliani’s new attorney, Joseph M. Cammarata, came in response to U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman ordering Giuliani and the plaintiffs in the case to inform the court whether they objected to unsealing the declarations from Giuliani’s former lead attorney, Kenneth Caruso, and former co-counsel, David Labkowski, regarding why they chose to withdraw from representing the former New York City mayor — a move they made without informing their client.

In response, Giuliani argued that Caruso and Labkowski should never have filed their motions to withdraw with the court, but even so, the motions were “rendered moot” once Giuliani, his former attorneys, and Cammarata signed a consent order granting substitution of attorney. The consent order was filed one day after Caruso and Labkowski sought to withdraw from the case, but Liman did not immediately sign the order.

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