Rudy Giuliani served as the lead campaign lawyer for Donald Trump on the heels of Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
Rudy Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York on Thursday, citing debts that include a nearly $150 million recent civil judgment against him for defaming Georgia election workers while serving as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump.
The filing by Giuliani came a day after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the former New York City mayor to begin paying the two election workers the damages he owed for their lawsuit and three days after the women filed a new suit seeking to bar him from defaming them again.
The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan will legally pause, for now, the $146 million defamation judgment in favor of Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, and any other judgments against him.
Giuliani, while representing Trump in efforts to reverse his loss on the heels of the 2020 election, had falsely accused the two election workers of ballot fraud.
The filing estimates he has assets worth between $1 million and $10 million, and estimated current liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million. A worksheet in the filing lists his unsecured, non-priority debts at $151.8 million.
Giuliani listed nearly $1 million in debt to the IRS and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance for unpaid taxes, which would get first right of payment in bankruptcy court.
