The judge overseeing Rudolph Giuliani’s bankruptcy rejected his latest challenge to a $148 million defamation judgment, admonishing the former New York mayor’s lawyers about the lack of progress in the Chapter 11 proceeding.
“I am disturbed about the status of this case,” Judge Sean H. Lane of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York said at a hearing Tuesday.
The judge’s frustration could lead to a major change of direction in the bankruptcy, which has been tumultuous from the start. It’s encountered more trouble recently, as Giuliani has missed deadlines to file mandatory financial disclosures.
His ...
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