Rudy Giuliani has resisted turning over certain items to the former Georgia election workers after they won a defamation verdict against him. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

By Erica Orden

12/05/2024 03:44 PM EST

NEW YORK — The two Georgia women who won a $148 million defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani asked a federal judge Thursday to hold him in civil contempt and impose “severe” sanctions for thwarting the court’s orders.

In their request, the women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, say Giuliani has failed to turn over even a single document in response to court orders requiring him to share information about a Palm Beach condo the women are seeking to seize from him. They argue that monetary penalties would be insufficient, but don’t specifically ask for jail time, writing that the court should “impose whatever coercive sanction it deems appropriate in its expertise.”

“Mr. Giuliani’s existing debt to Plaintiffs vastly exceeds his existing assets, and there is no reason to believe that a monetary sanction would remedy the violation or deter such future behavior,” their lawyers wrote.

Their request comes after the women also asked a different federal judge in D.C. to hold Giuliani in contempt of court for repeating false claims like those that led to the defamation judgment against him, in which he accused them of committing election fraud in the 2020 election.

That judge, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, has ordered Giuliani to come to court for a hearing over the...

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