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by
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Images)
Rudy
Giuliani’s
bada-bing
lawyer
Joe
Cammarata
continues
to
do
amazing
work.
The
divorce
lawyer
to
the
stars
(of
Staten
Island)
is
representing
America’s
decrepit
Mayor
in
the
New
York
phase
of
the
findout
being
delivered
by
Ruby
Freeman
and
Shaye
Moss,
the
Atlanta
poll
workers
he
defamed.
On
Thursday,
he’s
scheduled
to
go
to
trial
before
Judge
Lewis
Liman
on
the
issue
of
the
Florida
homestead
exception,
which
would
allow
him
to
shelter
his
$3
million
Palm
Beach
condo
from
being
sold
to
satisfy
the
$148
million
judgment.
There’s
also
a
secondary
issue
of
whether
he really
gave
his
World
Series
rings
to
his
son
Andrew,
so
perhaps
the
former
gubernatorial
candidate
will
provide
some
levity
at
the
trial
when
his
father
takes
the
stand.
Over
the
summer,
Rudy
told
a
bankruptcy
court
that
he
lived
in
New
York,
but
before
he
fell
ass
backward
out
of
Chapter
11
—
restarting
the
clock
on
collections
—
he
registered
himself
as
a
Florida
resident.
And
in
December,
in
direct
contravention
of
Judge
Liman’s
order
that
he
not
encumber
the
property,
he
registered
the
condo
as
his
homestead
with
the
county
clerk,
meaning
that
it
will
require
litigation
in
state
court
to
clear
the
title.
Last
night
Judge
Liman
ordered
sanctions
for
Rudy’s
total
refusal
to
comply
with
discovery.
After
failing
to
turn
over
more
than
a
handful
of
documents,
and
a
month
after
the
deadline
to
disclose
his
witnesses,
“Defendant
added
five
new
persons
as
individuals
likely
to
have
discoverable
information
he
might
use
to
support
his
defense
in
this
action.”
All
five
were
his
own
employees,
and
he
later
added
a
sixth,
Monsignor
Alan
Placa,
who
went
to
work
for
Rudy
in
2002
after
being
barred
from
the
ministry
for…
the
usual.
Two
of
the
witnesses
failed
to
testify,
and
two
of
the
three
who
showed
up
to
be
deposed
agreed
that
they
had,
indeed,
received
the
subpoenas
asking
for
responsive
documents,
but
simply
failed
to
look
for
or
produce
them.
The
only
witness
who
even
claimed
to
have
complied
was
Rudy’s
[cough]
podcast
co-host
Maria
Ryan,
who
turned
over
exactly
one
email,
and
insisted
that
it
was
her
habit
to
immediately
delete
all
correspondence
pertaining
to
“the
Mayor,”
and
that
his
calendar
was
maintained
via
a
system
of
“sticky
notes”
that
were
also
—
if
you
can
even
believe
it
—
immediately
discarded.
Judge
Liman
was mad
impressed.
He
excluded
every
witness
but
Ryan
and
Rudy
himself,
rejecting
Cammarata’s
suggestion
that
the
proper
remedy
was
to
hold
said
witnesses
in
contempt
and
seek
to
enforce
compliance.
“As
Defendant
well
knows,
it
is
his
own
discovery
violations
that
have
prevented
that
option
from
becoming
viable,”
the
judge
scoffed.
“There
is
no
time
for
the
Court
to
initiate
contempt
proceedings
against
[Rudy’s
body
man
Ted]
Goodman
before
the
scheduled
trial.”
And,
noting
that
“Defendant
does
not
address
Plaintiffs’
argument
that
he
should
be
precluded
from
relying
on
documents
that
he
did
not
produce
in
discovery,”
he
granted
that
motion
as
well.
Realizing
that
his
client
was
effectively
precluded
from
defending
himself by
introducing
evidence
he
failed
to
produce
during
discovery,
Cammarata
leapt
into
action…
sort
of.
At
10pm,
he
filed
a “Notice
of
Interlocutory
Appeal”
apprising
the
Second
Circuit
that:
The
Court,
Judge
Lewis
J.
Liman
excluded
two
witnesses
from
being
able
to
testify
at
trial
on
January
16,
2025,
to
wit:
MONSIGNOR
ALAN
PLACA,
and
THEODORE
GOODMAN
who
should
not
have
been
excluded
from
testifying.
The
Order
stated
no
legal
legitimate
basis
for
excluding
MONSIGNOR
ALAN
PLACA
or
THEODORE
GOODMAN
from
testifying.
The
Order
prejudices
the
Defendant,
is
improper
and
a
wrongful
prejudicial
decision
of
the
Court.
The
Court
improperly
ruled
that
granting
a
continuance
of
the
trial
would
be
not
practicable
without
any
lawful
basis
for
such
decision.
The
Court
granted
much
more
lengthy
discovery
schedules
to
other
cases,
but
this
case,
against
Rudolph
W.
Giuliani
who
challenged
the
2020
election
is
being
treated
differently
to
cause
prejudice
to
the
Defendant.
When
Defendant
requested
a
continuance
to
have
the
trial
after
the
inauguration
of
President
Donald
J.
Trump
as
the
47th
President
of
the
United
States,
the
Court
denied
that,
although
the
court
set
a
very
agressive
[sic]
schedule
from
Initial
Conference
to
trial.
The
Court’s
prejudicial
actions
is
to
deny
Defendant
a
fair
trial
while
there
is
no
prejudice
to
Plaintiffs.
So
far,
the
Second
Circuit
has
failed
to
respond.
Perhaps
this
is
because,
unlike
in
New
York
state
court,
you
can’t
take
an
immediate
interlocutory
appeal
of
a
pretrial
ruling
in
federal
court.
The
fun
continued
this
morning
at
a
pre-trial
conference,
where
Judge
Liman
denied
Cammarata’s
motion
for
reconsideration.
As
documented
by
reporter
Matthew
Lee,
Cammarata
demanded
that
the
court
admit
Placa’s
testimony
because
the
retired
cleric
“answers
to
a
higher
authority.”
But
all
is
not
lost.
After
a
conveniently
timed
social
media
post
from
his
favorite
pro
bono
client,
the
Rudy
Giuliani
Freedom
Fund
raised
$167,000.
The
GiveSendGo
promises
that
“ALL
FUNDS
GO
TO
LEGAL
DEFENSE.”
Which
is
good
news
for
Cammarata,
since
Rudy’s
prior
lawyers
are
suing
him
for
unpaid
bills.
And
Lemon,
it’s
only
Wednesday.
OH,
SHIT,
DO
YOU
MEAN
TO
TELL
ME
IT’S
TUESDAY?
Well,
time
flies
when
you’re
getting
held
in
contempt
of
two
separate
courts
inside
ten
days.
Freeman
v.
Giuliani [New
York
Docket
via
Court
Listener]
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.