Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is set to be the first witness at a trial to determine whether he can keep his Florida condominium and three World Series rings or must turn them over to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment awarded to two Georgia election workers. The trial, which begins Thursday morning at a federal court in Manhattan, will be heard without a jury.
Giuliani, 80, faces the trial after being found in contempt for failing to provide information on some of his assets to the lawyers for the women. As a result, Judge Lewis J. Liman banned Giuliani from introducing some evidence in the trial.
