A federal judge in New York has found former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for failing to comply with surrender orders Information about his net worth to two former Georgia poll workers whom he defamed.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman found the contempt on Monday afternoon after Giuliani testified for two days to answer questions about why he failed to turn over assets and court-ordered discovery information to Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss for $146 million to satisfy the libel judgment against him.

The former New York City mayor and U.S. attorney “willfully violated a clear order of the court” by failing to provide information at the scheduled time, the judge said.

“The defendant tried to stall the time,” Liman said.

“Discovery is not meant to be a shell game where the hidden ball is moved back and forth over and over again,” he added.

He said he would decide on “appropriate sanctions” against Giuliani at a later date.

Testifying remotely from his home in Florida earlier in the day, Giuliani told his lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, that he had tried to comply with court orders in the case and blamed his previous lawyer for previous failures. He also complained that he was having difficulty juggling his various legal proceedings, including two criminal cases and two other defamation suits related to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“Some days this is completely impossible because there are conflicting material and appearance requirements on the same day,” Giuliani said.

He also said he found some important documents that Freeman and Moss had been waiting for – the lease for his million-dollar Manhattan apartment and the title to his Mercedes-Benz convertible.

However, both documents list his estranged wife on the title and must be amended before they can be used by Freeman and Moss’ attorneys.

Freeman and Moss had asked the judge to hold Giuliani in civil contempt for failing to turn over information and turning over numerous valuable assets – including a New York Yankees jersey signed by Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio. to repay their $146 million judgment against him.

The two were awarded the sum in their defamation lawsuit against Giuliani, who they said spread falsehoods about Trump’s 2020 election loss, leading to a barrage of racist and violent threats against them.

Her lawyers had asked the judge in a court case to impose “appropriate sanctions” to force Giuliani to comply with court orders after he repeatedly flouted deadlines to release assets and financial information.

Giuliani said Friday that the DiMaggio jersey is “missing” and disputed his friend Monsignor Alan Placa’s claim that he had seen it framed at Giuliani’s Palm Peach, Florida, estate over the past two years.

On Monday, Giuliani said he was still looking for the jersey. “I don’t know where it is and it is difficult to reconstruct who took it and I am personally conducting my own investigation into this,” he said.

When he testified in court Friday, Giuliani denied withholding other Yankees memorabilia and said he did not “hide” an autographed picture of Reggie Jackson, another Hall of Fame member, that the poll workers’ attorney said listed as an asset in a bankruptcy document.

Attorneys for Freeman and Moss have argued that Giuliani has demonstrated “a consistent pattern of willful disregard of the court’s revenue orders,” citing his failure to honor the lease and cooperative shares of the estimated $6 million -dollar apartment in Manhattan that was in his bank account and the title document for his Mercedes, which once belonged to Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall.

A Jan. 16 trial will be held in the New York case to determine the status of Giuliani’s Florida condominium and ownership of his Yankees’ World Series rings, which he said he gave to his son years ago.

Giuliani is also in front A second contempt trial is underway in Washington, DC this week over whether he should face sanctions for continuing to defame Freeman and Moss on his livestreamed show “America’s Mayor Live” despite a court agreement.