The former New York City mayor was in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday to discuss his continuing failure to give up nearly $11 million worth of personal assets.
The forfeiture was meant as a down payment on the $148 million Mr. Giuliani owes to two Georgia election workers for defaming them by claiming, without evidence, that they had helped to steal the 2020 presidential election.
But first, Judge Lewis Liman allowed Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers to withdraw from the case.
“I’m sorry it came to this,” Kenneth Caruso, one of the Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers, said before he and his co-counsel left the hearing.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr. Caruso said that there had been “a difference of opinion” with Mr. Giuliani but they wished his new counsel “every success.”
Persons:
Rudolph W, Giuliani, Judge Lewis Liman, “, ” Kenneth Caruso, Caruso, ”
Organizations:
New, New York City
Locations:
New York, Manhattan, Georgia