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On Friday, Judge Sean Lane formally dismissed Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy case. The stumbling block was a bill for $400,000 from Global Data Risk, an accounting firm hired by Giuliani's creditors to try to understand his finances. The judge ordered Giuliani to pay the bill and he apparently couldn't cough up the cash. The judge accepted a down payment of $100,000 and a promise to pay the rest as soon as possible.
To prevent Giuliani from weaseling out of that and also from weaseling out of paying his creditors, primarily (but not only) Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers he defamed, the judge also put liens on his condos in Manhattan and Florida. That means when they are sold, the proceeds first go to pay off Global Data Risk, the two women, and the other creditors. Giuliani only gets money from the (forced) sale of his assets if they exceed his outstanding obligations, which are north of $150 million. The two properties are thought to be worth about $10 million combined, so he won't see a penny from their sale.
But there is more bad news for poor Rudy. The dismissal now allows the defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems to go forward. They probably won't be able to get one red cent from him, but they may well proceed just to have a court officially declare that his claims about them were lies. On top of all this, there is a sexual harassment claim from his former employee Noelle Dunphy, which can now go forward.
How is Giuliani going to find lawyers to handle these cases when he is broke and owes his current lawyers over $3 million? The only thing we can think of is that he goes to Donald Trump and offers a deal the former president can't refuse. Giuliani could offer not to flip and rat on him in the Arizona fake electors case and the Georgia RICO case in return for Donald paying all of his many lawyers. It's a deal the deal-maker-in-chief might just take. (V)