Rudy Giuliani’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy was reportedly discharged by a judge on Friday, lifting a temporary injunction that had prevented two Georgia election workers from pursuing their $148 million defamation award for six months.
The former mayor of New York City has long resisted the increasing pressure from his creditors.
However, he gave his consent to be fired in the last few days as they made more and more claims that he acted dishonestly and might be held accountable for bankruptcy offenses—charges that Giuliani refutes.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane dismissed Giuliani’s bankruptcy in a 22-page decision on Friday, citing Giuliani’s “continued failure” to offer financial transparency.
It brings an end to a half-year diversion that started when Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, two election workers from Georgia, are ready to collect on a jury’s $148 million defamation decision over Giuliani’s ludicrous conspiracy accusing them both of vast election fraud in 2020. Giuliani pledged to file an appeal.
Giuliani’s filing for Chapter 11 immediately put an end to their case and all of his other civil litigation, but it also allowed him to keep possession of his assets and put up a restructuring plan that was never implemented.
For a long time, Giuliani’s creditors accused him of hiding assets and engaging in extravagant spending, using his bankruptcy as a means of delay.
Election workers believed that bankruptcy law would have eventually stopped the Trump attorney and former federal prosecutor from issuing the startling verdict.
The election workers’ effort to have the bankruptcy dismissed will unfreeze their initial lawsuit and allow them to try to recoup their money.
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