A Manhattan federal judge will consider on Friday a request by two Georgia election workers to hold former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for refusing to turn over property as payment toward a $148 million defamation award.

Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss filed a lawsuit against Giuliani in 2021, alleging that his statements, linking them to claims of election fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, damaged their reputations.

Two years later, Giuliani conceded he made defamatory statements about them, and a judge ruled he was liable for defamation as a sanction against him for failing to turn over electronic records to Moss and Freeman.

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