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Rudy Giuliani slapped with property liens as judge formally kills bankruptcy case: report

Former President Donald Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani now faces liens on his properties, as the judge who presided over his bankruptcy case formally dismisses it, according to Business Insider.The judge in the case, Sean Lane, already signaled his intent to dismiss the case last month, citing Giuliani's consistent inability to provide financial transparency throughout the proceedings. However, "before the judge could finalize the dismissal, the parties in the case needed to figure out how to pay a $400,000 bill to Global Data Risk, a company hired by Giuliani's creditors to help understand his finances," said the report. After Giuliani and his creditors reached an agreement on a draft order, "the disgraced attorney must now pay $100,000 into an account that will pay Global Data Risk."The liens apply to Giuliani's apartment in Florida, and his co-op shares for his apartment in Manhattan.ALSO READ: We asked 10 Republican senators: ‘Is Kamala Harris Black?’ Things got weird fastGiuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, had filed for bankruptcy after being slapped with a $148 million default judgment in the lawsuit brought by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whom Giuliani baselessly accused of stuffing ballots during the 2020 election count in Atlanta. He separately faces prosecution for his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia and Arizona.He has reportedly been in dire financial straits for a long time.The elimination of bankruptcy protection means that creditors can come after Giuliani for everything he owes, the report noted. It also means that other pending lawsuits against Giuliani, like the sex abuse case brought by Noelle Dunphy, can move forward.