- Giuliani’s jury trial in Washington, DC was to determine damages he has to pay Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss
- Eight-person jury hit him with punitive damages of $75 on top of other damages
- READ MORE: The downfall of ‘America’s Mayor’ Rudy Giuliani
A pair of Georgia election workers who won a $148 million jury award against Rudy Giuliani have sued him again, seeking a permanent injunction that would prohibit him from defaming them in the future.
‘Defendant Giuliani continues to spread the very same lies for which he has already been held liable,’ according to the new suit, filed by attorneys for election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss.
The suit comes after a jury hearing their defamation case in Washington, D.C. said the former Donald Trump lawyer should have to pay them the staggering sum for falsely accusing them of helping to manipulate the vote during the 2020 election count in their state.
‘Defendant Giuliani’s statements, coupled with his refusal to agree to refrain from continuing to make such statements, make clear that he intends to persist in his campaign of targeted defamation and harassment. It must stop,’ according to the new filing, reported by CNN.
A defiant Rudy Giuliani on Friday insisted he had no regrets about behavior and told cameras that ‘everything I said about them is true.’
The latest suit came after U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell raised concerns about how to police potential future comments by Giuliani – and as former President Donald Trump called the award against Giuliani ‘sad.’
‘I think it’s so sad, what’s happened to Rudy,’ Trump told reporters after being asked about the situation by DailyMail.com during a campaign briefing by staff members in West Palm Beach.
‘He’s a great patriot he’s the greatest mayor in the history of New York. I think it’s a very, very unfair situation,’ Trump said during a drop-in appearance.
Trump didn’t say whether he would provide any financial assistance to help Giuliani with staggering legal bills, while also serving as a defendant in other cases. The former New York mayor has vowed to appeal, and the judge has the ability to try to adjust the award, which included punitive damages.
Giuliani faces financial ruin, but said outside court that the trial had been a sham, saying the ‘absurdity of the number merely underscores the absurdity of the entire proceeding.’
‘It will be reversed so quickly it will make your head spin, and the absurd number that just came in will help that actually,’ he said.
Giuliani declined to testify in his own defense, yet insisted he was not given the chance to make his case. He also said his claims of cheating were ‘supportable’ – despite there never being any evidence brought forward.
‘I have no doubt that my comments were made and they were supportable and are supportable today,’ he said.
‘I just did not have an opportunity to present the evidence that we offered.’
He said he didn’t testify because it ‘didn’t seem like it was going to do much to persuade anybody.’
The 79-year-old former titan of the law courts said the trial was unfair, and he would appeal.
‘I am quite confident when this case gets before a fair tribunal it’ll be reversed so quickly,’ he said.
The bombshell verdict dealt a catastrophic blow to the former New York mayor and was vindication for election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who said his allegations caused a flood of threats that made their lives hell.
The mother-daughter duo said Giuliani’s lies that they engaged in ballot fraud to rig the election against Donald Trump made them scared to leave their homes and unable to get jobs.
The Washington D.C. jury deliberated for 10 hours before they came back with a unanimous verdict to award the staggering sums that include:
- $75 million in punitive damages;
- $20 million each for emotional distress;
- $16 million for Freeman and $17 million for Moss for damage to their reputations