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by
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Images)
For
one
shining
moment
last
week,
it
looked
like
the
world
might
be
getting
the
greatest
legal
reality
show
of
all
time,
Rudy
Giuliani:
Pro
Se
Litigant.
Sadly,
it
was
canceled
in
its
infancy
when
one
Joseph
Cammarata,
a
divorce
lawyer
from
Staten
Island,
entered
an
appearance
in
the
collection
action
filed
by
Ruby
Freeman
and
Shaye
Moss
against
America’s
onetime
Mayor.
Rudy’s
current
lawyers,
Ken
Caruso
and
David
Labkowski,
are
noping
out
(or
trying)
lest
they
be
forced
to
make
false
representations
to
Judge
Lewis
Liman.
Notably,
this
scruple
does
not
extend
to
Rudy’s
appeal
in
the
DC
Circuit
of
the
underlying
case
brought
by
the
Atlanta
poll
workers
he
defamed.
“It
is
one
thing
to
represent
a
client
on
appeal,
where
the
record
is
fixed,
the
issues
are
purely
legal,”
they
huff.
“It
is
another
to
represent
that
…”
This
is
followed
by
several
lines
of
black
bars,
presumably
laying
out
all
the
lies
Rudy
wants
his
lawyers
to
tell
the
court
about
the
location
of
his
assets
and
whether
he
resides
in
Florida
for
the
purpose
of
the
homestead
exception
to
judgment
collections.
For
his
part,
Cammarata
appears
to
be
a
wee
smidge
rusty
on
his
federal
procedure.
In
the
week
since
he
entered
his
appearance,
he’s
managed
to
improperly
docket
three
filings,
including
an
appeal
which
was
apparently
defective
in all
the
ways.
Freeman
and
Moss
say
they
do
not
object
to
the
substitution
of
counsel,
so
long
as
it
doesn’t
delay
the
trial,
which
is
set
to
begin
on
January
16.
But
of
course,
Cammarata
wants
to
do
just
that.
He’s
requested
not
only
a
30-day
delay
of
all
deadlines,
but
a
postponement
of
the
trial
so
that
Rudy
can
spend
the
entire
week
before
inauguration
partying
in
DC.
“To
the
extent
that
Defendant
requests
an
extension
of
deadlines
that
would
expire
prior
to
November
26,
2024,
that
request
is
denied.
All
deadlines
remain
in
place,”
Judge
Liman
harrumphed.
“To
the
extent
that
Defendant’s
letter
requests
additional
relief
beyond
an
extension
and
substitution
of
counsel,
those
requests
must
be
made
by
formal
motion
and
will
be
disregarded.”
Cammarata
went
on
to
lecture
the
court
on
all
its
prior
errors,
going
so
far
as
to
suggest
that
forcing
Giuliani
to
surrender
his
possessions
without
an
appraisal
—
which
Caruso
and
Labkowski
never
asked
for!
—
“has
taken
away
Defendant’s
statutory
and
constitutional
rights.”
Meanwhile,
Rudy’s
pals
are
playing
knifey-spooney
over
subpoenas.
During
his
disastrous
foray
into
bankruptcy,
his
girlfriend
Maria
Ryan
once
indignantly
denied
being
served,
snorting
to
counsel
at
Akin
Gump
that,
“I
think
you’ve
been
duped!
If
you
paid
money
for
this
service
I
would
get
your
money
back!”
This
was
despite
an
affidavit
by
the
process
server
that
included
a
picture
of
Ryan
taken
at
the
time
of
service.
This
time
around,
Ryan,
along
with
Rudy’s
henchmen
Ted
Goodman
and
Ryan
Medrano,
along
with
yet
another
shell
company
called
Totally
Real
Company
Inc.
Standard
USA
LLC,
have
finally,
after
multiple
court
orders,
responded
to
subpoenas
for
information
…
sort
of.
For
instance,
the
subpoena
demanded
that
Rudy
identify,
for
any
transfer
of
funds
to
himself,
“(i)
the
parties
to
the
transfer,
(ii)
the
identity
of
the
property
transferred,
(iii)
where
applicable,
amounts
transferred,
(iv)
the
date
of
each
transfer
and
(v)
the
consideration,
if
any,
given
in
exchange
for
each
transfer”
along
with
“the
name
and
address
of
the
institution
and
the
name
and
number
on
the
account(s)
from
which
and/or
to
which
the
transfer
was
made.”
To
which
Cammarata
responded
on
Rudy’s
behalf:
But
the
plaintiffs’
lawyers
at
Willkie
Farr
&
Gallagher
have also
played
knifey-spooney
before.
And
this
morning
they
informed
Judge
Liman
that
they
would
not
be
seeking
to
compel
FakeAss
LLC,
Ryan,
Goodman,
or
Medrano
to
comply.
The
would
instead
be
“reviewing
these
responses
and
will
seek
further
relief
from
the
Court
as
may
be
necessary.”
[Cough,
sanctions,
cough.]
And
then
this
afternoon,
they
docketed
another
wildass
letter
to
the
court
documenting
Rudy’s
efforts
to
obstruct
collection,
including
social
media
posts
by
a
guy
calling
himself
“Joe
the
Box”
who
owns
the
America
First
Warehouse
in
Ronkonkoma
where
Rudy
moved
his
possessions
after
stripping
his
Manhattan
Apartment.
Mr.
“Box”
promises
to
film
counsel
for
the
plaintiffs
as
they
attempt
to
inventory
the
property.
“In
light
of
this
conduct,
Receivers
have
not
returned
to
the
[Warehouse]
Facility
as
planned,
and
do
not
believe
it
would
be
safe,
efficient,
or
practical
to
do
so,”
the
lawyers
for
Freeman
and
Moss
write.
They
also
have
some
choice
words
for
Cammarata:
At
11:00
a.m.
on
Wednesday
morning,
Mr.
Giuliani’s
new
attorney
in
this
matter
held
a
press
conference
outside
of
the
New
York
City
offices
of
Willkie
Farr
&
Gallagher
(Receivers’
counsel).
Mr.
Cammarata
is
a
member
of
the
New
York
Bar,
presumably
familiar
with
Rules
3.4,
3.6,
4.1,
and
8.4
of
the
New
York
Rules
of
Professional
Conduct,
and
has
his
own
office
at
which
he
is
capable
of
hosting
press
conferences—it
is
unclear
why
Mr.
Cammarata
thought
it
appropriate
to
target
Receivers’
counsel
by
staging
a
press
event
at
that
location.
In
any
event,
during
that
press
conference,3
Mr.
Cammarata
launched
a
variety
of
attacks
against
this
proceeding,
Receivers’
counsel,
and
the
underlying
judgment[.]
Judge
Liman
has
scheduled
a
hearing
for
Tuesday
on
all
the
impending
issues.
Feels
like
Caruso
and
Labkowski
might
not
be
getting
their
hall
pass
signed
quite
yet.
Freeman
v.
Giuliani [Docket
via
Court
Listener]
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where
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