Judge HOWELL has ordered immediate enforcement of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss' judgment against Rudy

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Rudy's assets can now be pursued

Link to tweet

[Arazi]

1. Excellent. Destroy him

[barbtries]

30. yep. waste no time.

he doesn't have much left and he'll make it as hard as he possibly can, the FUCK.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[Ocelot II]

7. Direct link to the Order so you don't have to try to read Xitter:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.144.0_1.pdf

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

32. It's super-annoying when we get a xitter link

Rather than a link to an article from a reputable source.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

39. Thank you.

[Leghorn21]

3. YEAH BABY, YEAH!!

My day just took a satisfying turn for the better!!

[malaise]

4. YEEES!

Rec

[flvegan]

5. I see no homestead exemption on his condo in Florida.

Get a certified copy of that judgment recorded in Palm Beach County as soon as you can. Assessed value is $2.5 million. There's a half million dollar tax lien, but I don't see a mortgage. That's a nice position of priority if they can get it.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[gay texan]

8. Merry xmas Rudy!!!

Lol!!!

[KPN]

41. Exact three words that entered my mind upon reading the order.

[MichMan]

9. How long does he have to produce the entire $148 million before he goes to jail for contempt?

Hours?

[dpibel]

23. Forever

Failure to satisfy a judgment is not contempt of court.

Plaintiffs can attach every penny he makes from now until the end of time.

But he's not going to jail over a civil judgment.

[MichMan]

24. I saw replies in an earlier post that not paying was contempt and could result in jail

He would be jailed for contempt of court for not complying with the courts order to pay the judgement immediately. I just wondered if immediate meant within 24 hrs ,by the end of the week or when exactly?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3168896

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3169172

[dpibel]

27. ChatGPT?

One of your authoritative posts is from a 3-post member who cites ChatGPT. You have been keeping up on ChatGPT as a source of legal knowledge, haven't you?

As for the other, it's just wrong. If it were correct, the prisons would be filled with people who could not satisfy a judgment against them. You can get a jury award against, say, a car-wreck defendant, for eleventy-billion dollars. You will collect the policy limits of their insurance--a couple hundred thousand, if you're lucky. After that, you can try to take their property or garnish their wages forever.

What you cannot do is have them put in jail.

Maybe this misconception arises from the extremely rare circumstances where a person subject to a child-support order, who is actually able to pay, but refuses to, is jailed for contempt after a supplemental judgment ordering payment.

In any case, you believe whatever makes you happy.

In the real world, you cannot jail someone if they cannot satisfy a tort judgment.

[MichMan]

28. That was why both replies were posted; the 2nd one was from a poster with over 8000 posts

I just posted replies that were given to me in another post, I didn't make them. You can always reply to those posts if you think they are wrong. I've never had to pay a court judgement, so I have no idea

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

34. If a judge deems it contempt of court

For not paying, then he goes to jail for it. That is indeed a possibility in many jurisdictions. Here's how it works, from an actual legal source, not a rando on the internet:

If you do not pay or fill out and mail the Statement to the judgment creditor, you might be in contempt and be sanctioned by the court. This means a warrant for your arrest may be issued and you may have to pay penalties and attorney’s fees.

https://www.occourts.org/self-help/self-help-small-claims/payingfailure-pay-judgment-defendant

[dpibel]

35. Ummm...nope

This is a threat of contempt for failure to file a post-judgment form. It has nothing in the whole wide world to do with failure to pay a judgment.

Don't take my word for it! Just read the whole section from which you've posted the last paragraph:

Paying the Judgment Creditor or Completing a Statement of Assets Form

When you get your Notice of Entry of Judgment (SC-130) in the mail after the trial you will also get a form called Judgment Debtor’s Statement of Assets (SC–133) . You have to fill out this form with information about the property you own and how much money you make and mail it back to the judgment creditor within 30 days unless you have paid the judgment in full.

If you file a Motion to Vacate the Judgment because you did not appear at the trial or a Notice of Appeal because you were dissatisfied with the judge’s decision and you lose, you have 30 days from the day the clerk mailed the notice of the court’s decision on the appeal or motion hearing to complete the Judgment Debtor’s Statement of Assets. You do not have to complete and send the statement to the judgment creditor if you have paid the judgment in full. For more information read What Can I Do If I Can’t Pay My Debts?.

If you do not pay or fill out and mail the Statement to the judgment creditor, you might be in contempt and be sanctioned by the court. This means a warrant for your arrest may be issued and you may have to pay penalties and attorney’s fees.

[struggle4progress]

10. "Oh, look! See! See Rudy in a hand-basket! Where is Rudy going in that handbasket?"

[Talitha]

31. Under the bus...

[sheshe2]

11. Good on Judge Howell!

Merry Christmas Rudy.

[irisblue]

12. Good.

[tinrobot]

13. I hope Judge Engoron does the same in Trump's NY case.

[Comfortably_Numb]

14. FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM! With a financial death choke-hold.

[rubbersole]

15. Hey Rudy,

You're going from top shelf aged single malt to Boone's farm to prison toilet wine. Somehow I'm not sure you'll notice the difference. Your relatives are all going to change their names.

[Jarqui]

16. Maybe I'm not "supposed to" but I enjoyed that

Rudy hurt those women.
He hurt the country.

I hope this is just the beginning for him being held to account.

[Stuart G]

17. K and R no text.

[usonian]

18. RUDY GETS THE DEBT PENALTY

REEEEEEEEED ALL ABOUT IT.

And let "Santa" deliver you a stocking full of COAL.

[Think. Again.]

19. I suggest leaving him a big credit at the liquor store....

...and maybe an old sleeping bag in the alley behind it.

[moniss]

20. Also given his extensive

foreign entanglements with questionable people there is the danger of things being squirreled away in "whoknowswherezikstan".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Judge orders immediate enforcement of Georgia election workers' $148M judgment against Giuliani

Rudy is untrustworthy and Shay and Moss needs to be able to immediately levy on Rudy's assets.

Link to tweet

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-agrees-expedite-georgia-election-workers-148m-judgment/story?id=105824432

A federal judge on Wednesday granted former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss' request to expedite their $148 million judgment against Rudy Giuliani, saying that the mother and daughter have "good cause" to fear Giuliani may attempt to avoid paying them.

Following a week-long trial, a federal jury last week ordered Giuliani to pay nearly $150 million to the two women for defaming them with false accusations that they committed election fraud while counting ballots in Georgia's Fulton County on Election Day in 2020.

Freeman and Moss subsequently asked the judge to "permit immediate enforcement" of the judgment out of concern that the former New York City mayor could attempt to "find a way to dissipate [his] assets before plaintiffs are able to recover."

Judge Beryl Howell agreed Wednesday that Giuliani's record as an "unwilling and uncooperative litigant" provides the plaintiffs "good cause to believe that he will seek to dissipate or conceal his assets" before paying them.

Howell added that other civil cases filed against Giuliani -- including one filed by his former attorney, Robert Costello, and another filed by President Joe Boden's son Hunter Biden -- "raise the risk that Giuliani has even greater motivation to hide his financial assets from potential future judgments against him."

[Prairie Gates]

22. They're gonna pull the bottle of Japanese whisky right out of his grubby paw!

No more Yamazaki 12 Year for you, Rudy!

[orleans]

25. merry christmas ruby freeman and shaye moss!

you certainly deserve it after what you've both gone thru the past few years

[CanonRay]

26. He won't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.

So let it be ordered, so let it be done.

[magicarpet]

29. Amen.

Alleluia - for us not Rudy.

[LudwigPastorius]

33. Don't worry, Rudy. You can make that money in no time.

There's always roles for pasty old guys in gimp suits in the bondage porno industry.

[eleny]

36. I'd love to see a video of them ripping a Rolex off his wrist

Props to Meidas Touch Network for that imagery.

[OverBurn]

37. Can he appeal? I figured he'd do the Trump playbook and drag it out forever.

[vanlassie]

43. He must not be able to find another lawyer?

[louis-t]

38. Rudy got a "stay of execution"?

Double meaning, no doubt.

[Kennah]

40. Turn those machines back on

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. Giuliani files for bankruptcy after staggering $148M verdict

No one is surprised by this

Link to tweet

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4371707-giuliani-bankruptcy-148million-verdict/

Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, days after a jury ordered him to pay a staggering $148 million to two ex-Georgia election workers Giuliani baselessly accused of committing fraud in the 2020 election.

Giuliani’s Chapter 11 petition, filed in U.S. bankruptcy court in New York, lists between $1 million and $10 million in assets and between $100 million and $500 million in liabilities, the filing shows.

For months, the former New York City mayor has appeared to experience a cash crunch as he defended against increasing legal troubles for spearheading former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in court.

But the bankruptcy filing was spurred by a jury’s verdict last week ordering him to pay about $148 million to former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

[rayray56]

44. Good...

Good… I don’t care if he winds up living under a bridge.