Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters as he leaves his apartment building in New York on Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers filed court papers just ahead of a Wednesday hearing notifying the judge that the debtor would abandon an effort to convert his Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization case to a Chapter 7 liquidation of his assets, and would instead agreeing to dismiss his case as demanded by the Georgia election workers he was found liable for defaming and subsequently ordered to pay $148 million.
The notice submitted to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane said that Giuliani has “changed his position on the appropriate disposition of his pending Application to Convert Chapter 11 Case to Chapter 7.”
“The Debtor now requests that the Court grant the relief requested by the Freeman Plaintiffs and dismiss the case,” the filing said. “Alternatively, the Debtor requests that the chapter 11 case be converted to chapter 7. The Committee [of Unsecured Creditors] has not agreed to the dismissal of the chapter 11 case.”
The filing dropped not long before an 11 a.m. hearing and two days after an attorney for Ruby Freeman asked the judge, on Freeman’s behalf and on behalf of her daughter Shaye Moss, to dismiss the bankruptcy case with prejudice.
It will be interesting to see how the judge handles all of this, since the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors is apparently not on board. Law&Crime will be listening in.
While Giuliani’s attorney Gary Fischoff had argued that his client has an “absolute right” to convert the case to Chapter 7, Freeman’s lawyer urged Lane not to let Giuliani “abuse the civil justice system any longer.”
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