A Journey Of Ls: Rudy Giuliani’s World Series Rings Gifted To Son Face Seizure After Contempt Charge
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves the New York Federal Courthouse on November 7, 2024, in New York City. | Source: Alex Kent / Getty
UPDATED: 11 a.m. ET, Jan. 8, 2025
Originally published April 28, 2021
The consequences of showing blind loyalty to Donald Trump continue to reveal themselves in the most amazing of ways.
Rudy Giuliani‘s journey of losses since he tried and failed to illegally overturn the 2020 election results by defaming Black women poll workers is showing no signs of ending anytime soon.
That truth was resoundingly punctuated this week after Giuliani was first found in contempt of court for evading payments in a $148 million defamation judgment before learning that the World Series rings he gifted his son could be seized as part of the ongoing case.
The Associated Press reported that Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled on Monday Giuliani “willfully violated a clear and unambiguous order of this court” by failing to provide evidence that he shouldn’t have to turn over his condo in Florida. That prompted Liman to find Giuliani in contempt, one of wheat could be more sanctions to come.
On Tuesday, lawyers filed a motion demanding that the World Series rings from the New York Yankees in 1996, 1999 and 2000 should also be forfeited and turned over as part of the massive judgment’s collection of assets from Giuliani, who said without any proof that he gave them to his son.
A trial to determine whether the condo and the World Series rings will be seized has been set for next week on Jan. 16.
It’s been a rough go for the lawyer formerly known as “America’s Mayor” who was previously hired to defend Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election and espoused debunked conspiracy theories about non-existent election fraud that helped fuel the anti-government sentiment responsible for the Capitol riots. For example, in addition to menacing Black women election workers, Giuliani made false claims about Democrats rigging the election with malfunctioning voting machines.
Since being named as a part of the Fulton County district attorney’s investigation into election interference, Giuliani has been the recipient of a seemingly neverending string of losses.
In 2022, a disciplinary panel recommended Giuliani’s disbarment stemming from his “frivolous” and “destructive” defense of “the big lie” that President Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win the 2020 election.
“[Giuliani] claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it,” the Board on Professional Responsibility, part of the D.C. Bar, wrote in its recommendation. “By prosecuting that destructive case Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right to practice law.”
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives during a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2021, in New York City. | Source: Pool / Getty
Aside from the latest trouble Giuliani has found himself in, separate investigators previously inquired for two years into whether he had any illegal dealings lobbying Ukraine officials in 2019 for information regarding Trump’s adversaries including Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The feds were also looking into whether Giuliani attempted to undermine the former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch.
Prosecutors eventually charged his Ukrainian associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, in 2019.
Yet and still, instances like finally admitting he made false claims about the 2020 election only draw further attention to Giuliani’s steady public fall from grace, much of which was already very apparent to Black communities who were privy to his inner workings after five decades of languishing in the political spotlight.
At the height of his praise, Giuliani was heralded for helping to take down New York City’s mafia bosses in the ’80s and then successfully won his bid for mayor in the 1990s. After the September 11 attacks, Giuliani was considered “America’s Mayor,” only to morph into an obstructer of democracy as one of the main lie-spreaders around Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.
From spreading racist conspiracy theories to upholding harmful policies like stop-and-frisk in New York City, Giuliani is seemingly headed toward a different hall of fame amid desperate and disingenuous attempts at revisionist histories to save him from his continued, spiraling downfall.
Keep reading to see the fine print details of Rudy Giuliani’s ongoing journey of spectacular Ls.
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