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by
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Rudy
Giuliani
spent
the
afternoon
trying
to
convince
Judge
Beryl
Howell
in
DC
not
to
hold
him
in
contempt
for
continuing
to
defame
the
Atlanta
poll
workers
to
whom
he
owes
$148
million.
His
theory
is
that
he
was
not
referring
to
Ruby
Freeman
and
Shaye
Moss
on
November
19
when
he
said
on
his
podcast:
You
know
the
tapes
in
at
the
Arena…at
the
State
Arena
in
Atlanta…uh
they
threw
out
all
the
people
that
were
observing
the
vote
count,
uh
closed
the
doors.
All
of
a
sudden
um
these
two
ladies
and
several
others
shoo
everybody
out.
Everybody’s
gone.
Close
down
the
Arena.…They
make
one
more
casing
of
the
joint,
now
this
is
not
on
the
tape
anymore,
used
to
be,
casing
of
the
joint
and
then
all
of
a
sudden
they
have
a
covered
over
table
that
uh
hadn’t
been
used
all
day
to
take
any
ballots
out
and
when
nobody
was
around
they
pull
up,
pull
up
the
and
they
take
five
bins
out
and
turn
them
over
to
the
people
counting
and
you
can
see
them
quadruple
counting.
It
seems
to
be
going
great.
Rudy
has
thoughts.
And
he
appears
to
be
sharing
them
from
the
courtroom.
This
is
not
to
be
confused
with
the
collection
action
in
New
York,
where
he
was
found
in
contempt
of
Judge
Lewis
Liman’s
turnover
order
and
for
failing
to
comply
with
discovery.
And
yet
America’s
decrepit
Mayor
is
still
inventing
new
ways
to
piss
off
the
court.
This
time,
he
registered
his
Florida
homestead
claim
with
the
Palm
Beach
County
Clerk
and
Comptroller,
in
direct
contravention
of
the
court’s
order.
On
January
16,
the
issue
of
Rudy’s
disputed
Florida
homestead
claim
is
set
for
trial
in
Judge
Liman’s
courtroom.
He
says
he
lives
there,
and
is
thus
entitled
to
take
advantage
of
the
state’s
unlimited
homestead
allowance,
despite
attesting
to
US
Bankruptcy
Judge
Sean
Lane
this
summer
that
he
lived
in
New
York.
On
October
31,
Judge
Liman
issued
an
order
barring
Rudy
from
encumbering
the
Palm
Beach
condo.
And
yet,
on
December
30,
the
former
head
of
SDNY
wandered
into
the
Palm
Beach
County
Clerk’s
office
and
filed
an
affidavit
attesting
that
Freeman
and
Moss’s
registered
judgment
“does
not
constitute
a
valid
lien
on
the
described
property.”
The
plaintiffs
now
have
45
days
to
institute
a
local
civil
action
in
Palm
Beach
County
Court
seeking
a
declaratory
judgment
that
the
homestead
affidavit
is
false
and
to
record
a
lis
pendens
with
the
county
registrar.
They
are
—
unsurprisingly!
—
apoplectic.
In
a
letter
to
Judge
Liman,
plaintiffs’
Willkie
Farr
counsel,
Aaron
Nathan,
noted
that
the
homestead
affirmation
doesn’t
even
conform
to
the
state
law
it
was
filed
under:
The
Notice
purports
to
invoke
Mr.
Giuliani’s
rights
under
Fla.
Stat.
§
222.01(2),
which
provides
that
“a
person
who
is
entitled
to
the
benefit
of
the
provisions
of
the
State
Constitution
exempting
real
property
as
homestead
and
who
has
a
contract
to
sell
or
a
commitment
from
a
lender
for
a
mortgage
on
the
homestead
may
file
a
notice
of
homestead
in
the
public
records
of
the
county
in
which
the
homestead
property
is
located.”
Clearly,
Rudy
has
no
intention
of
selling
this
property,
since
the
proceeds
would
be
immediately
confiscated
by
Freeman
and
Moss,
so
it’s
pretty
ballsy
that
he
used
this
particular
statute
to
throw
up
yet
another
roadblock.
But
ballsy
—
or
perhaps
FUCKING
NUTS
—
has
been
his
litigation
strategy
thus
far.
It’s
unclear
whether
Rudy’s
bada-bing
divorce
lawyer
Joe
Cammarata
was
aware
of
his
Florida
shenanigans.
Cammarata
was
already
in
dutch
with
Judge
Liman,
most
recently
for
refusing
to
meet
and
confer
on
a
joint
pretrial
order,
then
emailing
chambers
ex
parte
what
he
claimed
were
joint
pretrial
orders,
replete
with
referrences
to
exhibits
which
were
not
attached.
Judge
Liman
was hella
impressed:
The
Court
cannot
go
to
trial
with
two
competing
joint
pretrial
orders,
and
it
is
not
required
to
go
to
the
effort
of
reconciling
the
competing
submissions.
Before
9:30
p.m.
tonight,
Defendant
is
ordered
to
serve
Plaintiffs
and
Intervenor,
by
to
all
counsel
appearing
for
Plaintiffs
and
Intervenor,
his
proposed
exhibit
list
in
each
of
these
matters,
as
well
as
any
edits
to
the
joint
pretrial
orders
submitted
by
Plaintiffs.
Failure
to
do
so
will
result
in
waiver
of
the
right
to
submit
exhibits
not
otherwise
included
in
the
filed
joint
pretrial
orders.
Defendant’s
counsel
is
also
ordered
to
meet
and
confer
with
Plaintiffs’
counsel
tomorrow
morning
at
a
time
before
11:30
a.m.
selected
by
Plaintiffs’
counsel
(which
Plaintiffs’
counsel
should
provide
by
9:30
pm
tonight).
Plaintiffs
shall
file
revised
joint
pretrial
orders
on
the
dockets
of
each
of
these
cases
by
2
p.m.
tomorrow.
No
other
pretrial
submissions
will
be
received
by
the
Court
(except
for
the
response
to
Plaintiffs’
motions
in
limine),
the
time
period
for
any
other
such
submissions
having
expired.
And
meanwhile,
back
in
DC,
it
appears
to
be
going
swimmingly.
Freeman
v.
Giuliani
[DC
Docket
via
Court
Listener
Freeman
v.
Giuliani
[New
York
Docket
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Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.