Giuliani has continued
Piggy Giuliani is simply going right on libeling those two women even after the verdict.
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia election workers who won a nearly $150 million verdict against Rudy Giuliani for defamation on Friday, have sued him again, asking a federal judge to permanently prohibit him from lying about them.
The lawsuit comes as Giuliani has continued to make false statements about their work as absentee ballot counters in the 2020 election.
“Defendant Giuliani continues to spread the very same lies for which he has already been held liable,” the new lawsuit said. “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.”
Moss and Freeman’s lawyers added that even since the verdict, Giuliani has indicated he wouldn’t stop repeating the false claims about them.
At the end of the first day of their defamation damages trial against him last week, Giuliani told TV cameras outside court that “everything I said about them is true” and that he had proof that the media should “stay tuned.” Giuliani presented little defense in the case, and didn’t testify.
Yeah sure he has proof, and that’s why he didn’t produce it during the trial.
In a separate court filing Monday, attorneys on both sides agreed on final numbers and terms now that the jury has weighed in.
Giuliani agreed the court’s final judgment would make clear he owes the women $146 million, plus more than $237,000 for attorneys’ fees. The jury verdict has been slightly reduced because Moss and Freeman previously settled another part of their lawsuit, against One America News Network and others.
Giuliani also said the court can say, in its final judgment, that he made more than a dozen defamatory statements about Moss and Freeman that hurt them, and that his “conduct was intentional, malicious, wanton and willful,” according to the filing.
By including those declarations in the court’s judgment, it will be more difficult for Giuliani to avoid paying Moss and Freeman by filing for bankruptcy.
But not to keep defaming them?
Maybe he’s planning to jump off a bridge tomorrow.
H/t twiliter
As an aside I hate the way the first sentence of that article is worded. It’s not like Freeman and Moss were contestants on The Price is Right – they were awarded the money as compensation. For what Giuliani did. (And come to think of it since he’s still doing it, that fact is pretty important.)
Francis Boyle, that annoyed me, too. Poor writing. There’s more than one badly-worded phrase or sentence in there. The women weren’t counting ballots in absentia. They were very much present. Instead of, as written, phrasing it as “their work as absentee ballot counters” it should have been phrased “their work as counters of absentee ballots”.
By the way, off which bridge is he hoping to jump? I thought that he’d burned them all.