From Le Figaro with AFP
Published 2 hours ago, updated 40 minutes ago
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York. BONNIE CASH / Portal
Rudy Giuliani has filed for personal bankruptcy in a New York court after being ordered last week to pay $148 million to two election experts he defamed.
Donald Trump's former lawyer and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani filed for personal bankruptcy in city court on Thursday after being ordered last week to pay $148 million to two Georgia election experts he defamed. Rudy Giuliani, leader of the former Republican president's campaign to overturn the 2020 election results, filed a petition in Manhattan federal court under the famed Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, declaring $500 million in debts and $10 million in assets, according to court documents.
Last Friday, a jury in federal court in Washington sentenced Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million in compensatory damages for moral injury to Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Shaye Moss, two poll workers from the state of Georgia (Southeast), during the election Presidential election campaign in November 2020. The election was won by Democrat Joe Biden, but former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021), who dreams of a return to the White House, has believed for more than three years that the victory was stolen from him .
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“Giuliani’s lies”
Creditors listed by Rudy Giuliani in his personal bankruptcy declaration include the Federal Tax Service (IRS) and New York State (NYS Department of Taxation & Finance) for millions of dollars in accumulated debts. As well as law firms, an electronic voting machine company (Dominion) and … a company owned by President Biden's son Hunter Biden. Last Friday, plaintiff Wandrea Shaye Moss described the “devastating” years she spent with her mother because of “the lies of Rudy Giuliani,” the former private attorney and man very close to Donald Trump.
In a video showing the mother and daughter passing around what turned out to be a coin tablet while ballots were being counted, the former New York mayor and ex-attorney general claimed that they exchanged a USB flash drive, “as if it were” were doses of heroin or cocaine” to falsify the results. The two black women had told how these allegations, picked up by Donald Trump on social networks, brought them a barrage of insults and threats, often of a racist nature. After admitting the falsity of his accusations in July, Rudy Giuliani reiterated last Friday that he had “no doubt that his statements were valid then and now,” but said he had been prevented from providing evidence.
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Former “Mayor of America”
The former “Mayor of America,” known worldwide more than 20 years ago for his management of the September 11, 2001, attacks and his role as a former anti-Mafia prosecutor in New York, has since fallen from grace. He called the requested amount of $148 million “absurdity.” Rudy Giuliani is also being sued by the law firm that represented him for several years (Davidoff Hutcher & Citron), claiming $1.36 million in unpaid debts. He is also being sued in civil court for “unspecified” amounts by the companies Dominion, Smartmatic and Hunter Biden, according to court documents.
Rudy Giuliani was indicted by Georgia courts in August, along with Donald Trump and 17 others, on charges of gerrymandering to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that key state. Four of the 19 defendants who were originally charged on August 14, specifically under an organized crime law, have already pleaded guilty. In exchange for their testimony in the future trial of the other defendants, they received reduced sentences with no prison time.
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