New York — Two attorneys representing Rudy Giuliani in a lawsuit related to a $148 million defamation judgment against him have asked a judge to remove them from the case over disagreements with the former New York City mayor.

As the threat of civil contempt hangs over their client’s head, attorneys for Rudy Giuliani told a judge they want to stop representing him in a case involving a $148 million debt Giuliani owes to two election workers he defamed in 2020.

Attorneys representing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed motions Wednesday to withdraw from a defamation case brought by two former Fulton County election workers.

The lawyers who have been representing Rudy Giuliani are trying to quit his debt enforcement case because of disagreements with him, according to new court filings, as a Friday deadline nears for the former New York City mayor to turn over many of his most valuable possessions to two Georgia election workers to whom he owes nearly $150 million.

Giuliani's lawyers filed a motion to withdraw from his $148 million civil defamation case in federal court on Wednesday.

It appears that Rudy Giuliani’s attorneys no longer want to represent him in his $148 million defamation judgement he owes two Fulton County election workers. On Wednesday, Kenneth Caruso filed a motion to have him and fellow attorney David Labkowski removed over a “fundamental disagreement” with their client.

Giuliani's spokesperson told Axios Wednesday that personal gifts, including from Giuliani's childhood hero Joe DiMaggio and from the first soldiers who entered Afghanistan following the September 11,