Civil contempt hearing scheduled for Rudy Giuliani: report

A federal district judge has scheduled a civil contempt hearing for longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, over claims that he is continuing to publicly attack election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, reported the Huffington Post on Thursday.

Judge Beryl Howell directed Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, "to respond to the motion for civil contempt by Dec. 2. The former election workers will then have until Dec. 6 to file their response to Giuliani. The first hearing in the case will be held on Dec. 12 at the federal courthouse near the U.S. Capitol."

Giuliani was found liable for $150 million after Freeman and Moss filed a defamation case against Giuliani. He repeatedly accused them with no evidence of stuffing ballots in Atlanta in 2020, prompting a wave of harassment against them.

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Despite the loss, and despite having much of his property liquidated to pay off the judgment, Giuliani is continuing to make the same false claims, Freeman and Moss argued in their complaint to the court. This month his podcast, "America's Mayor Live," they alleged, Giuliani repeated a debunked lie that Freeman and Moss were passing back and forth a "USB drive" full of illegal ballots (actually just a ginger mint) and claimed they were “quadruple-counting votes.”

"Civil contempt usually comes with fines, jail time or both, and is the direct result of a person’s disobedience of court orders," noted the report.

Meanwhile, Giuliani is facing a number of new financial troubles, including the possibility of foreclosure on his Palm Beach condo for failure to pay property taxes. His penthouse in Manhattan was already ordered seized as part of the judgment, as well as vast amounts of his possessions. The seizure of his assets has reportedly proven hard as Giuliani has dug in.