A federal judge on Friday held Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for skirting an agreement not to make new false claims about two Georgia election workers he was ordered to pay $146 million for defaming.

Rudy Giuliani is expected to appear in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C. Friday where a judge will weigh a request to hold the former Mayor of New York City in contempt in his defamation case.

The former New York City mayor still owes two former Georgia poll workers $148 million in defamation damages, a sum he remains unable to pay.

A federal judge on Friday found former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for his continued defamation of two former Georgia election workers.

A federal judge will hear arguments in Rudy Giuliani's second contempt of court hearing this week in the defamation case against him involving former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.

It’s the second time this week Giuliani has been held in contempt. Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman entered the contempt order against Giuliani after finding he had failed to adequately respond to Moss and Freeman’s efforts to obtain information related to their efforts to collect the massive defamation judgment.

Rudolph W. Giuliani has been found in contempt of court a second time in a week, this time for continuing to lie about two former Georgia election workers.

Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump, will appear in court in Washington on Friday when he faces a second attempt this week to hold him in contempt of court in a case brought by two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of helping to rig the 2020 election.