We can only laugh — as we watch former Mayor Rudy D. descend into lawlessness — the same sort of lawlessness he used to regularly prosecute in Manhattan, as the then US Attorney, what now seems. . . an entire life-time ago.

This guy was, and now once again is… one of Tangerine’s closest confidants and advisors. What will he advocate about, once inside 1600 Penn.?! Yikes. This — from plaintiffs’ lawyers, is a letter detailing preposterously bad faith evasion of lawful USDC Manhattan court orders (by Rudy):

…Plaintiffs asked whether Defendant would stipulate that 1) at the time of the purported gift, the value of the rings, individually and collectively, exceeded any applicable annual gift-and-estate tax exclusion amount applicable the purported gift in tax year 2018, and 2) that no gift tax return was ever filed relating to the rings. Defendant declined to so stipulate, and Plaintiffs’ counsel understands that Defendant intends to oppose this motion.

The World Series rings at issue were initially listed on Mr. Giuliani’s bankruptcy schedules as property of the bankruptcy estate in his chapter 11 case, indicating that Mr. Giuliani understood the rings to have been his property as of the December 21, 2023 chapter 11 petition. See ECF No. 10-2 at 4. When proceedings commenced in this Court, Plaintiffs included the World Series rings among the property subject to their motion for turnover and receivership. See ECF No. 9.

On October 8, 2024, while that motion was pending, Intervenor [the son who was purportedly gifted the rings] moved to intervene to assert an interest in the rings, claiming that Defendant had gifted the rings to Intervenor on May 25, 2018. (ECF No. 52). Plaintiffs promptly served discovery requests (including a set of document requests that covered documents and communications relating to tax planning) on Intervenor on October 16, 2024, and Intervenor responded on October 27, producing a limited set of documents and nothing relating to any tax planning by himself or by Defendant….

[And in a separate Wilkie Farr (plaintiffs’) letter, same date:]

…Mr. Giuliani asks that Plaintiffs send him legal documents to transfer title to the [1980 SL500, a baby blue ragtop Mercedes] automobile, which is registered in Florida. Had Mr. Giuliani or his counsel so much as Googled this issue, they would have learned that in Florida paper titles are transferred by the owner signing the front of the title certificate, while electronic titles must be reassigned in person at a motor vehicle service center.

It so happens that Mr. Giuliani has filed a copy of his vehicle registration at ECF No. 42-5 in No. 24-cv-6563; entering the title number shown on that registration document into the Florida HSMV website shows that the title in question is, indeed, a “paper title.”

Apparently, neither Mr. Giuliani nor his counsel have bothered to investigate how to comply with the Court’s order in this regard….

In light of recent events, it is impossible to fathom how those representations [by Mr. Giuliani — about his former properties] were true. As set forth in the correspondence already filed at ECF No. 81-1, Plaintiffs have made direct requests to Mr. Giuliani to identify the location of all receivership property, including and particularly the property that Mr. Giuliani moved out of his New York Apartment. [That property included an autographed New York Yankees No. 5 jersey — one worn in World Series game play, by Joe DiMaggio, as a follow-on member of the historic “Murderers’ Row” clubs, long gone to the mists of eternity — but somehow… appropriate that it has gone… missing, while in Rudy’s control]….

“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio — Joltin’ Joe has left, and gone away….”

Yep — that was a time — Joe’s time — when there really were heroes in public life, in NYC. So, as I say, and as ever — Tangerine hangs with “only the best” people. [Here, solely for a complete record, is Rudy’s lawyers’ version.] It is going to be a lo-o-o-o-ong four years. Onward… grinning.

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