Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani attends a ceremony in Zuccotti Park, organized by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, on the 19th Anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York, NY, September 11, 2020, The names of nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks were read by family members. (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images).
Rudy Giuliani is on the verge of losing yet another legal battle and is pleading with a federal judge in Manhattan not to make it so.
Late last year, while the former New York City mayor was beset by cascading troubles in the ongoing defamation case — which led to a since-aborted effort to declare bankruptcy — brought by two former Georgia election workers, a little-noticed and entirely separate defamation case cleared significant hurdles in the court system.
The case attained a level of stealth so great that Giuliani failed to respond to two key deadlines. The judge overseeing the matter has directed the plaintiff to file for a default judgment.
Giuliani, in turn, protested that he was simply not aware of those deadlines — and other important events in the lawsuit — because he “had not been checking the email address assigned to this case.”
