‘That’s a lie’: Legal analyst squashes Giuliani excuse for lawyers’ resignation

Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers have resigned from his case, and his new lawyer is working to make up false excuses for abandoning his client, according to a legal analyst. Legal analyst Andrew Torrez pointed to a Monday filing in which Judge Lewis J. Liman in Manhattan unsealed part of the motion to withdraw as Giuliani’s counsel. According to the documents, Giuliani told his lawyer that he “will not participate in electronic discovery,” which he has been ordered to do.ALSO READ: Accused felon Rudy Giuliani praises The Citadel for letting him keep honorary degreeGiuliani’s new lawyer, Joe Cammarata, claimed in court documents that the previous lawyers left because they were too bombarded with filings from election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye ‘Shaye’ Moss. “This is a very bad fact, as you might imagine,” wrote Torrez on Bluesky. “When you are currently facing a hearing on whether to sanction you for (among other things) not participating in discovery and not complying with the court’s turnover orders.”Torrez blasted it in all capital letters, “THAT’S A LIE (and an easily disprovable one at that).” The lawyers made it clear they were withdrawing because Giuliani refused to comply with discovery despite the lawyers telling him that he must. This fact “didn’t sit well with Judge Liman,” observed Torrez. So, the judge unsealed the filing, proving Cammarata wrong. “To permit Defendant to claim that he had instructed his lawyers to comply with all court orders including those requiring electronic production and that it was Prior Counsel who were responsible for the misdeeds that have plagued this case, while sitting on declarations in the court file that belie those claims, would permit him to make a ‘mockery’ of the court and its proceedings,” wrote the judge in his unsealing of the filing. Kenneth Caruso, the former Giuliani lawyer from Caruso & Labkowski, told the court that Giuliani created a problem by falsely claiming he would agree to discovery when he never intended to. Torrez also pointed out a footnote “in which Judge Liman suggests there could be more attorney-client waivers based on the CRIME-FRAUD exception.”He explained that it’s like a judge saying, “Hey, I might order you to turn over more attorney-client documents if you used your lawyers to break the law.”If Giuliani refuses to turn over the documents, the judge can obtain them from the law firm under such an exception. Read the unsealed filing here.

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