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Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is set to answer more questions after facing a grilling last week at a contempt-of-court hearing stemming from his failure to surrender valuable items to satisfy a $146 million defamation judgment against him.
Unlike at Friday’s hearing, Giuliani will be testifying remotely Monday and responding to questions posed by his attorney, instead of lawyers for the two former Georgia election workers he was found liable of defaming: Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.
At stake is whether Giuliani should be held in contempt for defying court orders to surrender valuable items, including a New York Yankees jersey autographed by Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio.
Freeman and Moss have asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman to find Giuliani in civil contempt for failing to hand over the jersey and other items intended to supplement their $146 million judgment against him.
The pair was awarded the sum in their defamation lawsuit against Giuliani, who they said had spread falsities about Trump’s election loss in 2020 resulting in an onslaught of racist and violent threats against them.
Their attorneys had urged the judge in a court filing to apply “appropriate sanctions” to prompt Giuliani’s compliance with court orders after he repeatedly ran afoul of deadlines to turn over assets and financial data.
Giuliani said Friday that the DiMaggio jersey was “missing,” and denied an assertion made by his friend Monsignor Alan Placa that he had seen it framed in Giuliani’s property in Palm Peach, Florida, within the past two years.
Giuliani also denied withholding other Yankees memorabilia, saying he wasn’t “hiding” a signed image of Reggie Jackson, another Hall of Famer, that the election workers’ attorney say was listed as an asset in a bankruptcy document.
Attorneys for Freeman and Moss have argued that Giuliani has demonstrated “a consistent pattern of willful defiance of the Court’s Turnover Orders,” and cited his failure to surrender the proprietary lease and co-op shares to his estimated $6 million Manhattan apartment, cash in his bank account and the title document for a Mercedes-Benz convertible.
Giuliani is also facing a second contempt proceeding in Washington, D.C., this week over whether he should face sanctions for continuing to defame Freeman and Moss on his livestreamed “America’s Mayor Live” show, in defiance of a court-ordered agreement.
Zoë Richards is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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