Bankruptcy due to a million-dollar fine
Trump loyalist Giuliani files for bankruptcy
December 21, 2023, 10:17 p.m
To this day, Trump’s supporter Giuliani is sticking to the story of election fraud. New York’s former mayor does not want or cannot pay a million-dollar fine for defaming two election workers: he is filing for bankruptcy.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who must pay almost $150 million in damages for defaming two former election workers, has filed for bankruptcy. This emerges from a court document that has now been published. The 79-year-old ally of former President Donald Trump was sentenced to the damages last week because he falsely claimed after the 2020 presidential election that aides had thrown away ballot papers for Trump and counted fake papers for Democrat Joe Biden.
The two election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in the state of Georgia, who are mother and daughter, sued. Both women received national attention last year when they testified before the Congressional Committee investigating the Capitol attack. People threatened her and wished her death, Moss said. The two women, who are black, accused Giuliani of his claims destroying their reputations and leading to numerous threats, including racist ones, against them. A jury in Washington agreed with them and awarded a sum that exceeded the plaintiffs’ demands. Giuliani announced an appeal. “The absurdity of the number only underlines the absurdity of the entire process.”
Giuliani did not testify in the trial, but told reporters outside the court that he did not regret his statements and that they were true. Both women then sued him again, accusing him of continuing to spread the same lies for which he had already been prosecuted. His refusal to refrain from making such statements in the future made it clear that he intended to continue his targeted defamation and harassment, according to Tuesday’s lawsuit.