Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers have abruptly quit representing him in his
defamation case after attorneys for the women he defamed accused the disgraced former
New York City mayor of
hiding property he has been ordered to turn over.
Giuliani’s lead counsel Kenneth Caruso and attorney David Labkowski
filed a motion in federal court in New York on Wednesday citing several reasons for their withdrawal, pointing to a “fundamental disagreement” with
Donald Trump’s former attorney.
His spokesperson Ted Goodman told
The Independent that “he has not been informed by Mr. Caruso of this action.”
“Surely Mr. Caruso would talk to the mayor, or at the very least inform him, of such a decision,” he said.
The attorneys invoked a New York rule that allows attorneys to withdraw when a “client insists upon taking action with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement” or when a client “insists upon presenting a claim or defense that is not warranted under existing law and cannot be supported by good faith argument,” or when “the client fails to cooperate in the representation or otherwise renders the representation unreasonably difficult for the lawyer to carry out employment effectively.”