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By Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer | Associated Press WASHINGTON — 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 … Read more
Rudy Giuliani at 60 Centre Street in Manhattan on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. Theodore Parisienne | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A federal jury on Friday ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay over $148 million to two Georgia election workers for falsely claiming they committed ballot fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The jaw-dropping figure … Read more
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Ruby Freeman, a former Georgia election worker who Rudy Giuliani repeatedly defamed, testified on Wednesday in federal court, recounting the threats she received after the longtime ally of former President Donald Trump spread lies about her in 2020 Giuliani admitted to making false statements about Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, a Georgia election worker, … Read more
By Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz | CNN Rudy Giuliani didn’t see two former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss as “human beings” when he spread conspiracy theories about them after the 2020 election, their attorney told a Washington, DC, jury Thursday during closing arguments in the defamation damages trial. “He … Read more
Rudy Giuliani’s defamation trial got off to a rocky start Monday, after he left the courtroom at the end of the day to repeat to reporters the exact same claims that got him in trouble in the first place. “Everything I said about them is true,” Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former election lawyer, told reporters outside … Read more
By Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Scared for her life after Rudy Giuliani and other Donald Trump allies falsely accused her of fraud, Georgia election worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss told jurors Tuesday she seldom leaves her home, suffers from panic attacks and battles nightmares brought on by a barrage … Read more
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for two Georgia election workers played audio recordings in a Washington courtroom Monday of graphic and racist threats the two women received after Rudy Giuliani falsely accused them of fraud while pushing Donald Trump’s baseless claims after the 2020 election. The recordings were part of the opening statements in a federal … Read more