According to NBC News, a jury has ordered former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay nearly $150 million in damages to two Georgia election workers for the defamatory remarks he made about them following the 2020 election.
Giuliani was found by Judge Beryl Howell to have disparaged Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman.
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Following a protracted four-day trial and over nine hours of deliberation, a Washington jury has rendered a verdict awarding the two women an enormous $148 million in damages, according to NBC News.
Freeman and Moss receive substantial awards for emotional distress and defamation ($16,171,000 and $16,998,000, respectively), in addition to $20 million for each.
Additionally, according to CNN, the plaintiffs will get hefty punitive damages totaling $75 million.
The women claimed, according to CNN, that they had received threats following Giuliani’s assertions.
Howell recently ruled in favor of Giuliani, finding him culpable for emotional distress, civil conspiracy, and defamation. His inability to carry out his discovery duties led to this decision.
“Donning a cloak of victimization may play well on a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court of law this performance has served only to subvert the normal process of discovery in a straight-forward defamation case, with the concomitant necessity of repeated court intervention,” Howell wrote in the opinion.
Speaking to reporters outside the D.C. area, Giuliani announced his intention to appeal the ruling, according to NBC News. courtroom.
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In 1994, the 79-year-old Republican had a prosperous career as a federal prosecutor before taking office as mayor of New York.
He received a lot of recognition for his admirable leadership after the terrible events of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
