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BumRushDaShow

(144,158 posts)
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 03:47 AM 16 hrs ago

Judge unseals document exposing Rudy Giuliani lying about why his attorneys quit in defamation case

Source: Law & Crime

Dec 23rd, 2024, 4:43 pm


The attorneys who unceremoniously quit representing Rudy Giuliani in his receivership case concerning the $148 million he owes for defaming two Georgia election workers told the court they were forced to part ways with the former New York City mayor after he informed them that he “would not participate” in discovery for the case. Monday’s ruling to unseal portions of the attorneys’ motions to withdraw was “necessary to protect the integrity of the court and its orders.

“Defendant has informed us that he will not participate in electronic discovery in the Homestead Action,” Attorney Kenneth Caruso wrote in a previously sealed motion for him and co-counsel David Labkowski to withdraw. “Specifically, he has informed us that he will not identify or provide access to his electronic device(s) for imaging by an electronics-discovery vendor, which we have identified. We have a fundamental disagreement with that position. Defendant’s position also constitutes a failure to cooperate with us in the representation and renders it unreasonably difficult for us to carry out our employment effectively.”

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.

Caruso and Labkowski withdrew last month as Giuliani’s counsel without informing the former New York City mayor of their intention to nix him as a client, citing a professional conduct rule permitting the termination of representation under specific circumstances, including a “fundamental disagreement” with a client, a client insisting on presenting a claim that “cannot be supported by good faith argument,” and when the representation of a client becomes “unreasonably difficult.”

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/defendant-knows-that-assertion-to-be-untrue-judge-unseals-document-exposing-rudy-giuliani-lying-about-why-his-attorneys-quit-in-defamation-case-from-election-workers/



Full headline: ‘Defendant knows that assertion to be untrue’: Judge unseals document exposing Rudy Giuliani lying about why his attorneys quit in defamation case from election workers

Link to (unsealed) MOTION (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.626017/gov.uscourts.nysd.626017.191.0.pdf
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Judge unseals document exposing Rudy Giuliani lying about why his attorneys quit in defamation case (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 16 hrs ago OP
What else could Rudy be hiding? TexasTowelie 15 hrs ago #1
Sad Roy Rolling 15 hrs ago #2
"From a respectable mayor to a pitiful ass-kisser." BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago #3
Too bad, David Dinkins isn't alive to see the depths to which this shithook has sunk. 3Hotdogs 11 hrs ago #11
Oh I am sure Dinkins knew he was a dick back then BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago #12
Making note so I can find this later. calimary 14 hrs ago #4
Why is this... 2naSalit 14 hrs ago #5
Since he used to be the U.S. Attorney in SDNY back in the day BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago #6
No doubt... 2naSalit 14 hrs ago #7
Exactly BumRushDaShow 13 hrs ago #8
So his electronic devices have other evidence on them? Think. Again. 13 hrs ago #9
It's more than these attorneys couldn't fully and fairly represent their client. no_hypocrisy 12 hrs ago #10
In plain terms moniss 8 hrs ago #13
I'd like to charge Rudy for causing enormous ongoing stress young_at_heart 8 hrs ago #14

TexasTowelie

(117,515 posts)
1. What else could Rudy be hiding?
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 04:39 AM
15 hrs ago

Considering that his name has been run through the sewer and more than sufficient evidence exists of his crimes, there has to be a bombshell out there for him to be so uncooperative.

Roy Rolling

(7,206 posts)
2. Sad
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 04:56 AM
15 hrs ago

From a respectable mayor to a pitiful ass-kisser. One of the Moron Mafia’s gonna get rich spilling the beans on the real treason evidence. Somebody undeserving is gonna become instantly rich. Who’s it gonna be? Who’s gonna be the first Trump stooge to blow the whistle?

How about make a deal with Biden now for a pardon and become a whistleblower? Anyone want to be a national hero? Anybody? Somebody?

Do it now before President Musk is sworn in.

BumRushDaShow

(144,158 posts)
3. "From a respectable mayor to a pitiful ass-kisser."
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:34 AM
14 hrs ago

Ghouliani was an ASS before he became mayor and continues to be one over 30 years later!

3Hotdogs

(13,559 posts)
11. Too bad, David Dinkins isn't alive to see the depths to which this shithook has sunk.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:49 AM
11 hrs ago

I'm sure David got some giggles about the shoe polish. I know I did and still do.

BumRushDaShow

(144,158 posts)
12. Oh I am sure Dinkins knew he was a dick back then
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 09:07 AM
11 hrs ago

and wouldn't have been surprised about the shoe polish meltdown that befitted the always-showboating clown.

BumRushDaShow

(144,158 posts)
6. Since he used to be the U.S. Attorney in SDNY back in the day
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 06:17 AM
14 hrs ago

he probably has lots of "IOUs" out there.

Think. Again.

(19,020 posts)
9. So his electronic devices have other evidence on them?
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 06:54 AM
13 hrs ago

I don't think he'll be around much longer.

no_hypocrisy

(49,181 posts)
10. It's more than these attorneys couldn't fully and fairly represent their client.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 07:21 AM
12 hrs ago

If they continued to represent Giuliani without this evidence, they'd be subject to legal ethics charges by the NYS Bar Association and/or legal malpractice by Giuliani at a later date. Lose/Lose.

They had to get out.

moniss

(6,143 posts)
13. In plain terms
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:41 AM
8 hrs ago

what was on the devices was evidence and Ghouliani told them he was going to hide the evidence rather than produce it. So it is reasonable, given everything he's done to date, to infer the worst. That would mean that not only is asset information on the devices but also information about efforts to move and hide assets.

It is important to note that this didn't happen without other people being a part of helping him do so. Meaning others could be charged.

young_at_heart

(3,859 posts)
14. I'd like to charge Rudy for causing enormous ongoing stress
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:52 AM
8 hrs ago

Too bad that isn't a law because Ruby Freeman and her daughter have had so much stress for quite a long time that it must have caused health problems. Of course, Rudy claims HE had stress.....it's all about him!

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