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Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's former lawyer and former mayor of New York, was ordered to pay $148 million for defaming two people who worked in Georgia during the 2020 election. Giuliani said the two officials falsified the results of the 2020 presidential election. The two victims, mother and daughter, received insults and threats in the following months. In the process they demanded compensation of 47 million. The jury was much tougher.
The maximum compensation awarded by the jury Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss had each sought $24 million in damages in federal court in Washington. But the jury awarded a much higher sum: nearly $17 million each in compensatory damages, $20 million in moral damages and $75 million in total compensatory damages.
Giuliani attacks after sentence: “An absurdity” “The absurdity of this sum only underscores the absurdity of the entire process,” Giuliani attacked in a statement to reporters, hinting that he would appeal. Trump's former lawyer, who is known to be in financial distress, has also been sued by a law firm that represented him for several years and is seeking $1.3 million in unpaid bills.
The victims: “We suffered racist attacks” Giuliani accused mother and daughter of exchanging a USB stick “as if they were doses of heroin or cocaine” to skew the results in Georgia, relying on a video of the two women passing a mint instead. The two African-American employees said they received insults and threats, often of a racist nature, as a result of Trump's accusations from the former lawyer, which were then spread all over social media.