Eat shit, old man.
May there be more of these outcomes, so the right wing grift mill at least takes pause before slandering people.
He’s gonna be sweating black ink tonight!
I can’t imagine those poor women will see much of that money as I don’t think Giuliani has anywhere near that much.
I guess he could find work as a ghoul for a year round Halloween themed amusement park?
That award will be severely reduced on appeal. Very very severely (over $70 million was punitive damages and appeals courts tend to toss most of that out). And his estate still likely won’t be able to pay it off.
It doesn’t have to be a specific number of million dollars, it just has to hurt him.
This is great. He’s ruined by three times what he said would ruin him
Guess he’s gonna have to cut back on those trips to Starbucks and avocado toast.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury awarded $148 million in damages on Friday to two former Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation over lies he spread about them in 2020 that upended their lives with racist threats and harassment.
The damages verdict follows emotional testimony from Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who tearfully described becoming the target of a false conspiracy theory pushed by Giuliani and other Republicans as they tried to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
The judgment adds to growing financial and legal peril for Giuliani, who was among the loudest proponents of Trump’s false claims of election fraud that are now a key part of the criminal cases against the former president.
And Giuliani is still facing his biggest test yet: fighting criminal charges in the Georgia case accusing Trump and 18 others of working to subvert the results of the 2020 election, won by Democrat Joe Biden, in that state.
An attorney for Moss and Freeman, in his closing argument, highlighted how Giuliani has not stopped repeating the false conspiracy theory asserting the workers interfered in the November 2020 presidential election.
The judge overseeing the election workers’ lawsuit had already ordered Giuliani and his business entities to pay tens of thousands of dollars in attorneys’ fees.
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I’m happy with the judgement. And will be ecstatic when these good citizens get all of the money they were awarded.
when [they] get all of the money they were awarded
That will likely be never.
I’m just hoping that A) they do get enough to be life-changing (not have to work again, etc), B) that Rudy G is ruined for the rest of his life. Like, way more than his current supposed “broke” situation.
But I’m expecting an Alex Jones situation where the jackass is still doing whatever he wants and living large.
They still have other cases going against other entities (like gateway pundit, the original source of this story), so this is useful as precedent at least.
What’s wild to me is that there doesn’t appear to be any call for an apology, or public retraction.
America’s mayor to America’s election denier payer!
