Rudy Giuliani’s Lawyers Quit His $148 Million Defamation Case Over ‘Fundamental Disagreement’ With Ex-NYC Mayor

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani‘s lawyers, Kenneth Caruso and David Labkowski, have quit his $148 million defamation case.

On Dec. 15, 2023, a jury in Washington, D.C., ordered Giuliani to pay two Georgia election workers $148 million for false and defamatory claims he made about them.

In 2020, Giuliani publicly claimed that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, two election workers involved in ballot counts in Fulton County, Georgia, participated in election fraud.

On Nov. 13, Caruso, Giuliani’s lead counsel, and Labkowski, his attorney, filed a mostly redacted motion in federal court in New York, pointing toward several reasons for their withdrawal.

“A lawyer may withdraw from representing a client when: . . . (4) the client insists

upon taking action with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement; . . . (6)

the client insists upon presenting a claim or defense that is not warranted under

existing law and cannot be supported by a good faith argument for an extension,

modification, or reversal of existing law; [or] . . . (7) the client fails to cooperate

in the representation or otherwise renders the representation unreasonably difficult

for the lawyer to carry out employment effectively,” the lawyers wrote in the filing.

Giuliani spokesman Ted Goodman offered a statement replying to news coverage of these court filings. 

“Mayor Giuliani has not been informed by Mr. Caruso of this action,” Goodman noted in his statement. “Surely Mr. Caruso would talk to the mayor or, at the very least, inform him of such a decision.”

On Oct. 22, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan ruled that Giuliani must turn over his sports memorabilia and luxury items to the Georgia election workers to help settle his debt to them.

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