Giuliani calls Georgia 2020 election workers' questions 'abusive' in contempt hearing

Source: Reuters

January 3, 2025 3:49 PM EST Updated 5 hours ago


NEW YORK, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Rudy Giuliani on Friday said legal questions from two Georgia election workers that he falsely accused of trying to help steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden were "abusive," as the former New York City mayor seeks to fend off a citation for contempt of court.

The election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss, say Giuliani, 80, has not responded to all of the questions they have sent him in recent months to help them determine what property he must turn over as payment toward a $148 million defamation verdict in their favor.

At a hearing in Manhattan federal court on Friday over whether U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman should hold him in contempt of court, Giuliani said some of the questions - such as naming the lawyers and doctors he had consulted with in recent years - were intrusive and impossible to answer. "If there is such a thing as abusive and overbroad, this is the one you'd put in the law school textbook," said Giuliani, a former personal lawyer to Republican President-elect Donald Trump.

Freeman and Moss sued Giuliani - in 2021, accusing him of destroying their reputations. Giuliani made repeated false claims that a surveillance video showed the pair concealing and counting suitcases filled with illegal ballots at a basketball arena in Atlanta that was used to process votes during the 2020 election.

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