WASHINGTON — On the morning of Halloween last week, lawyers for two former Georgia election workers walked into Rudy Giuliani’s New York apartment. They were there to get an estimate on what it would cost to move the former mayor’s belongings. Not much, it turned out.

Giuliani had taken his most valuable possessions elsewhere, further delaying an effort by the two workers to collect on the $148 million judgment imposed on him for defaming them after the 2020 election. The apartment is Giuliani’s single biggest asset. He tried to sell it last year for $6.5 million. But it is just one of his possessions that a court ordered him to turn over by last week.

When the lawyers walked into the apartment last week, they found rugs, a dining table, a few small pieces of furniture and inexpensive wall art, they told the judge overseeing the case Monday.

Gone were the art, furniture and sports memorabilia designated to go to the women in compensation for Giuliani having falsely portrayed them as seeking to cheat Donald Trump as they counted the ballots in Georgia four years ago.

— The Associated Press