{"id":100344,"date":"2025-01-14T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/14\/rudy-giuliani-and-his-lawyer-continue-their-courthouse-vaudeville-act\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:02:36","slug":"rudy-giuliani-and-his-lawyer-continue-their-courthouse-vaudeville-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/14\/rudy-giuliani-and-his-lawyer-continue-their-courthouse-vaudeville-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Giuliani And His Lawyer Continue Their Courthouse Vaudeville Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe post Rudy Giuliani And His Lawyer Continue Their Courthouse Vaudeville Act appeared first on Above the Law.<\/p>\n

\"Rudy<\/p>\n

(Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rudy Giuliani\u2019s bada-bing lawyer<\/a> Joe Cammarata continues to do amazing work<\/a>. The divorce lawyer<\/a> to the stars (of Staten Island) is representing America\u2019s decrepit Mayor in the New York phase of the findout being delivered by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Atlanta poll workers he defamed.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, he\u2019s scheduled to go to trial before Judge Lewis Liman on the issue of the Florida homestead exception, which would allow him to shelter his $3 million Palm Beach condo from being sold to satisfy the $148 million judgment. There\u2019s also a secondary issue of whether he\u00a0really<\/em> gave his World Series rings to his son Andrew, so perhaps the former gubernatorial candidate will provide some levity<\/a> at the trial when his father takes the stand.<\/p>\n

Over the summer, Rudy told a bankruptcy court that he lived in New York, but before he fell ass backward<\/a> out of Chapter 11 \u2014 restarting the clock on collections \u2014 he registered himself as a Florida resident. And in December, in direct contravention of Judge Liman\u2019s order that he not encumber the property, he registered the condo<\/a> as his homestead with the county clerk, meaning that it will require litigation in state court to clear the title.<\/p>\n

Last night Judge Liman ordered<\/a> sanctions for Rudy\u2019s total refusal to comply with discovery. After failing to turn over more than a handful of documents, and a month after the deadline to disclose his witnesses, \u201cDefendant added five new persons as individuals likely to have discoverable information he might use to support his defense in this action.\u201d All five were his own employees, and he later added a sixth, Monsignor Alan Placa, who went to work<\/a> for Rudy in 2002 after being barred from the ministry for\u2026 the usual<\/a>. Two of the witnesses failed to testify, and two of the three who showed up to be deposed agreed that they had, indeed, received the subpoenas asking for responsive documents, but simply failed to look for or produce them.<\/p>\n

The only witness who even claimed<\/em> to have complied was Rudy\u2019s [cough<\/a>] podcast co-host Maria Ryan, who turned over exactly one email, and insisted that it was her habit to immediately delete all correspondence pertaining to \u201cthe Mayor,\u201d and that his calendar was maintained via a system of \u201csticky notes\u201d that were also \u2014 if you can even believe it \u2014 immediately discarded.<\/p>\n

Judge Liman was\u00a0mad impressed<\/em>. He excluded<\/a> every witness but Ryan and Rudy himself, rejecting Cammarata\u2019s suggestion that the proper remedy was to hold said witnesses in contempt and seek to enforce compliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Defendant well knows, it is his own discovery violations that have prevented that option from becoming viable,\u201d the judge scoffed. \u201cThere is no time for the Court to initiate contempt proceedings against [Rudy\u2019s body man Ted] Goodman before the scheduled trial.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, noting that \u201cDefendant does not address Plaintiffs\u2019 argument that he should be precluded from relying on documents that he did not produce in discovery,\u201d he granted that motion as well.<\/p>\n

Realizing that his client was effectively precluded from defending himself\u00a0by introducing evidence he failed to produce during discovery<\/em>, Cammarata leapt into action\u2026 sort of.<\/p>\n

At 10pm, he filed a\u00a0\u201cNotice of Interlocutory Appeal\u201d<\/a> apprising the Second Circuit that:<\/p>\n

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The Court, Judge Lewis J. Liman excluded two witnesses from being able to testify at trial on January 16, 2025, to wit: MONSIGNOR ALAN PLACA, and THEODORE GOODMAN who should not have been excluded from testifying. The Order stated no legal legitimate basis for excluding MONSIGNOR ALAN PLACA or THEODORE GOODMAN from testifying. The Order prejudices the Defendant, is improper and a wrongful prejudicial decision of the Court. The Court improperly ruled that granting a continuance of the trial would be not practicable without any lawful basis for such decision. The Court granted much more lengthy discovery schedules to other cases, but this case, against Rudolph W. Giuliani who challenged the 2020 election is being treated differently to cause prejudice to the Defendant. When Defendant requested a continuance to have the trial after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States, the Court denied that, although the court set a very agressive [sic] schedule from Initial Conference to trial. The Court\u2019s prejudicial actions is to deny Defendant a fair trial while there is no prejudice to Plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So far, the Second Circuit has failed to respond. Perhaps this is because, unlike in New York state court, you can\u2019t take an immediate interlocutory appeal of a pretrial ruling in federal court.<\/p>\n

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1\/ LOL Joey Badabing Cammarata, Rudy’s in-way-over-his-head lawyer in the (federal) collections case in New York, has just purported to file an interlocutory appeal to the 2d Circuit over the trial court’s partial grant of a motion in limine.storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.us\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 P. Andrew Torrez (@andrewtorrez.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-01-14T03:38:48.545Z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The fun continued this morning at a pre-trial conference, where Judge Liman denied Cammarata\u2019s motion for reconsideration.<\/p>\n

As documented by reporter Matthew Lee, Cammarata demanded that the court admit Placa\u2019s testimony because the retired cleric \u201canswers to a higher authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Judge Liman: I follow the law. Don’t tell me about the American people, or some of them.Giuliani’s lawyer Cammarata: Monsignor Placa answers to a higher authority than this court-Judge: What do you mean by that?Cammarata: God. He answers to God.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Inner City Press (@innercitypress.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-01-14T15:51:17.190Z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

But all is not lost. After a conveniently timed social media post from his favorite pro bono client<\/a>, the Rudy Giuliani Freedom Fund raised<\/a> $167,000. The GiveSendGo promises that \u201cALL FUNDS GO TO LEGAL DEFENSE.\u201d Which is good news for Cammarata, since Rudy\u2019s prior lawyers are suing him<\/a> for unpaid bills.<\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/p>\n

And Lemon, it\u2019s only Wednesday.<\/del> OH, SHIT, DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME IT\u2019S TUESDAY? Well, time flies when you\u2019re getting held in contempt<\/a> of two separate courts<\/a> inside ten days.<\/p>\n

Freeman v. Giuliani<\/a>\u00a0[New York Docket via Court Listener]<\/p>\n

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Liz Dye<\/a>\u00a0lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos\u00a0substack<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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