Ruby will run Rudy's pockets, defamation lawsuit by Georgia election workers will proceed
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Mother-daughter election workers describe how they lived through Trump-backed accusations of conspiracy
Ruby Freeman is packing up the house where she has lived for more than 20 years. "I've been here forever, you know," Freeman told ABC News' Terry Moran in an exclusive interview for IMPACT x Nightline on Hulu. Losing her home is just one of the many ways Freeman's life has changed since the...
Long article but details the danger that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss found themselves in when bytch ass losers Republican singled them out and said that they rigged/cheated so that Biden won GA. Rudy Giuliani called them out as did Trump.
Sheep ass MAGA followers harassed, intimidated, and threatened them, to the point where the FBI told them to move for safety.
And MFers
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Just think, at one time this man was being touted as a probable POTUS. Yeeesh. We avoided a bullet there (but we unfortunately got Trump instead 
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Rudy's past caught up to him.Just think, at one time this man was being touted as a probable POTUS. Yeeesh. We avoided a bullet there (but we unfortunately got Trump instead
People from metro NYC area knew what type of trash he was. That post 911 rebrand might have fooled others, but you are who are. And his slimeball ways and associates derailed that path he thought was his.
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
Thank God.
I have hope that everything is gonna come crashing down on MAGA world soon. I pray God brings destruction to all these racists and enemies of black people.
I have hope that everything is gonna come crashing down on MAGA world soon. I pray God brings destruction to all these racists and enemies of black people.
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I hate to admit it, but that was me. Living in TN, a lot of people, including neighbors who were staunch Democrats, thought Rudy was a good man who helped NYC through one of its worst moments ever. He just had an R by his name instead of a D. Aaah to be naive again.
Of course, I also knew nothing about politics at the time too.
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Rudy Giuliani concedes he made 'false' statements about Georgia election workers
The Trump ally's acknowledgment came in a filing Tuesday related to the 2020 election workers' lawsuit about baseless claims of fraud he made against them.
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Rudy Giuliani concedes he made 'false' statements about Georgia election workers
July 26, 2023,
Rudy Giuliani conceded in a court filing Tuesday that he made “false” statements about two Georgia 2020 election workers who are suing him over baseless claims of fraud that he made against them.
“Defendant Giuliani, for the purposes of litigation only, does not contest that, to the extent the statements were statements of fact and other wise actionable, such actionable factual statements were false,” Giuliani wrote in a signed stipulation that he said was intended to “avoid unnecessary expenses in litigating what he believes to be unnecessary disputes.”
Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, have said their lives were turned upside down when conspiracy theorists, as well as then-President Donald Trump and his ally Giuliani, claimed they had committed election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. A heavily edited, brief clip of security footage was widely circulated online and by Trump allies as supposed proof.
Giuliani had claimed that Freeman and Moss were “passing around USB ports like they were vials of heroin or cocaine.” In reality, as reflected in the Jan. 6 committee report, they were passing a ginger mint.
Freeman testified to the committee that she “lost my sense of security — all because a group of people, starting with Number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani, decided to scapegoat me and my daughter Shaye to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.” The Jan. 6 committee called the duo’s treatment “callous, inhumane, and inexcusable.”
Michael J. Gottlieb, partner at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP who serves on the legal team of Freeman and Moss, said in a statement Wednesday that they are "pleased with this major milestone" in response to Giuliani's filing.
“Giuliani’s stipulation concedes what we have always known to be true — Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss honorably performed their civic duties in the 2020 presidential election in full compliance with the law; and the allegations of election fraud he and former-President Trump made against them have been false since day one,” Gottlieb said. “While certain issues, including damages, remain to be decided by the court, our clients are pleased with this major milestone in their fight for justice, and look forward to presenting what remains of this case at trial.”
In a statement Wednesday morning, Ted Goodman, a Giuliani spokesman, disputed that the former New York mayor acknowledged his statements were false and added that Giuliani “did not contest it in order to move on to the portion of the case that will permit a motion to dismiss
Rudy Giuliani Is Going to Have to Pay Damages to the Election Workers He Defamed
The case brought by Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss will now move to a trial to determine damages owed by Trump’s former attorney
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Rudy Giuliani Is Going to Have to Pay Damages to the Election Workers He Defamed
The case brought by Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss will now move to a trial to determine damages owed by Trump’s former attorneyBY NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ
AUGUST 30, 2023
Rudy Giuliani speaks to members of the media after being booked, outside the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug. 23, 2023. CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A FEDERAL JUDGE has found former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani liable for defamation after spreading conspiracy theories about two Georgia election workers.
The court additionally found that Giuliani failed to comply with the legal requirements of evidentiary discovery, ruling that he “refused to comply with his discovery obligations and thwarted plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss’ procedural rights to obtain any meaningful discovery in this case.”
“Giuliani has submitted declarations with concessions turned slippery on scrutiny and excuses designed to shroud the insufficiency of his discovery compliance,” Judge Beryl A. Howell wrote.
“Just as taking shortcuts to win an election carries risks—even potential criminal liability—bypassing the discovery process carries serious sanctions, no matter what reservations a noncompliant party may try artificially to preserve for appeal,” she added.
The judge further admonished Giuliani for failing to comply with an order to reimburse the plaintiffs for $89,172.50 worth of legal fees, as well as withholding records related to his personal finances and failing to preserve materials related to the investigation. The judge concluded that additional sanctions would be considered during a trial to determine damages owed by Giuliani to Freeman and Moss.
“What we went through after the 2020 election was a living nightmare. Rudy Giuliani helped unleash a wave of hatred and threats we never could have imagined. It cost us our sense of security and our freedom to go about our lives,” Moss wrote in a statement responding to the ruling, adding that “today’s ruling is yet another neutral finding that has confirmed what we have known all along: that there was never any truth to any of the accusations about us and that we did nothing wrong.”
In a statement provided to Rolling Stone, Giuliani adviser Ted Goodman called the ruling “a prime example of the weaponization of our justice system, where the process is the punishment.”
“This decision should be reversed, as Mayor Giuliani is wrongly accused of not preserving electronic evidence that was seized and held by the FBI,” Goodman added.
In December, Rudy Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss sued Giuliani, alleging that the attorney had falsely accused them of participating in vote manipulation in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
During testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, Moss recounted how she and Freeman, her mother, were publicly accused by Giuliani of having exchanged a “USB drive” full of votes. When asked what her mother had actually passed to her Moss replied that the object was “a ginger mint.”
Moss also detailed the many threats made against her by Trump supporters, noting that they were told they should “hang for committing treason.” According to Moss, people went to her grandmother’s home and attempted to “burst down the door and conduct a citizen’s arrest of my mom and me.”
Several of the defendants indicted in the Georgia RICO case against Trump and 18 of his allies were charged with offenses related to intimidation attempts against Freeman.
Giuliani was amongst those charged with intimidating Freeman, but his legal troubles extend well beyond Georgia. As reported by Rolling Stone, Special Counsel Jack Smith has been questioning witnesses in a federal investigation of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election on Giuliani’s drinking during and after the 2020 election.
Giuliani has been confirmed as one of the co-conspirators in Smith’s indictment of Trump over the effort to overturn the election.
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Jury selection to begin in the defamation case against Rudy Giuliani
Jury selection begins Monday in the defamation case against Rudy Giuliani. A federal judge found the former New York City mayor liable for defaming two Georgia election workers in the first phase of this case.
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Payup motherfukker.
Election Worker Tells Jury: ‘Giuliani Just Messed Me Up’ (Published 2023)
Ruby Freeman, one of two Georgia election workers found to have been defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani, testified at the trial held to set the damages he will have to pay.
Election Worker Tells Jury: ‘Giuliani Just Messed Me Up’
Ruby Freeman, one of two Georgia election workers found to have been defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani, testified at the trial held to set the damages he will have to pay.
Ruby Freeman, left, and her daughter, Shaye Moss, at a White House ceremony honoring them this year. She testified Wednesday that a tweet from Rudolph W. Giuliani led to years of harassment.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times
By Eileen Sullivan
Reporting from Washington
Dec. 13, 2023
Ruby Freeman, a former Georgia election worker, sat in a federal courtroom on Wednesday and told a jury: “Giuliani just messed me up, you know.”
She was referring to Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was sitting a few feet from her, as she described how her life has been upended since Dec. 3, 2020. That was the date Mr. Giuliani, then the personal lawyer to President Donald J. Trump, directed his millions of social media followers to watch a video of two election workers in Fulton County, Ga., asserting without any basis that they were cheating Mr. Trump as they counted votes on Election Day.
The workers were Ms. Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss.
Ms. Freeman, who is Black, recounted what followed: a torrent of threats, accusations and racism; messages from people who said she should be hanged for treason, or lynched; people who fantasized about hearing the sound of her neck snap.
They found her at her home. They sent messages to her business email and social media accounts. They called her phone so much that it crashed, she said.
The harassment got so bad that the F.B.I. told Ms. Freeman she was not safe in the home where she had lived for years. She stayed with a friend until she felt she put that friend at risk after law enforcement officials told her they had arrested someone who had her name on a death list.
Ms. Freeman’s name had become a rallying cry across conservative news outlets, embodying a conspiracy theory that Trump supporters embraced as they tried to keep him in office.
“This all started with one tweet,” Ms. Freeman said on Wednesday, the third day of a trial to determine what compensation she and Ms. Moss deserve from Mr. Giuliani. Judge Beryl A. Howell previously ruled that Mr. Giuliani spread lies about them, intentionally inflicted emotional distress on them and engaged in a conspiracy with others as he led the efforts to keep Mr. Trump in office.
Ashlee Humphreys, a professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism who testified as an expert witness for the plaintiffs, told the jury that the price tag for repairing the damage done to their reputations would be between $17.4 million and $47.4 million.
Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer, Joseph Sibley IV, has said that size of damage award would be the civil equivalent of the death penalty — a description Judge Howell called “hyperbolic.”
Even though Georgia officials quickly dismissed the accusations against the two women, and a yearslong investigation cleared them of wrongdoing, Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss said they continue to suffer the consequences.
Ms. Freeman said she could no longer use her name, making it difficult when she bought a new house and had to register for utilities. She wears a mask and sunglasses when she is in public.
“Sometimes I don’t know who I am,” she said. “What is my name today?”
After she purchased her new home, Ms. Freeman had security cameras installed throughout. She said the neighbors are friendly, but she keeps to herself to avoid introductions.
“My life is just messed up,” she said as her testimony came to an end. “It’s just really messed up, all because somebody put me on blast, just tweet my name to their millions of followers.”
Mr. Sibley declined to cross-examine Ms. Freeman. Mr. Giuliani’s defense will begin on Thursday, when he is expected to testify.
Eileen Sullivan writes about the Department of Homeland Security with a focus on immigration and law enforcement. More about Eileen Sullivan
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 14, 2023, Section A, Page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Election Worker Targeted by Giuliani Describes Torrent of Threats. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
'Oh, my goodness': Giuliani gasps on live TV after learning he could owe $500 million
Former President Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani, fresh off his $148 million court defeat in the defamation case brought by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, acted surprised on Steve Bannon's War Room show on Thursday when Bannon reminded him of what his reported total liabilities were."America's Mayor,"...
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'Oh, my goodness': Giuliani gasps on live TV after learning he could owe $500 million
Matthew ChapmanDecember 21, 2023 7:44PM ET
Rudy Giuliani (Steve Bannon's War Room).
Former President Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani, fresh off his $148 million court defeat in the defamation case brought by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, acted surprised on Steve Bannon's War Room show on Thursday when Bannon reminded him of what his reported total liabilities were.
"America's Mayor," said Bannon. "You're one of the smartest lawyers in the country. Tell us what happened this afternoon."
"Well, I mean, I don't think it's much of an embarrassment to say that I can't afford $148 million," said Giuliani. "That, that's way beyond what I consider to be a rather decent net worth and proud of it. But about $130 million short."
"The one thing that caught, particularly your, your friends and colleagues by surprise and the filing, at least the headlines in the New York Post and other places, CNN. You listed liabilities of $200 to $500 million?"
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"Liabilities of $200?" said Giuliani. "I don't have liabilities of $200. That's just wrong. The liabilities that I have are in excess of that. Maybe a million dollars. So it's the 148 plus, maybe 7, 800,000. I don't have, I don't have any mortgage, have any loans. So there's something we will spend 99 percent of my liabilities are that, is that judgment? 98 percent is that judgment? Without that judgment I'm perfectly solvent."
"I think, I think New York Post was the same," said Bannon. "I think it said $200 to $500 million."
"Oh my goodness," said Giuliani. "Maybe, you know, you know what they're doing. I know what they're doing. They're looking at the other cases, what they're doing is they're saying if all the other cases were to go to conclusion and get the money that they're asking for, but that's, I mean, that's really in never, never land. Like, for example, Dominion is asking for $1.2 billion. So I, I, maybe somebody wants to consider that a liability, but it's not a real — it hasn't become, what it hasn't become any kind of a verdict or a judgment yet. So that's what I think they're doing. They're taking all those other cases and they're saying, suppose he loses all those cases, he'd owe $500 million, but I don't owe it right now and I don't think I am gonna lose all those cases. I don't even know how Dominion can recover another cent. They've already recovered four times the value of their company."
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Rudy Giuliani discusses bankruptcy with Steve Bannon
Rudy Giuliani begs bankruptcy court to let him keep his Florida condo to continue podcasting
Rudy Giuliani hasasked a bankruptcy court to let him keep his Florida condo as he fights off paying two election workers he defamed, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
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Rudy Giuliani begs bankruptcy court to let him keep his Florida condo so he can keep podcasting to pay creditors
BRANDI BUCHMANMar 29th, 2024, 12:30 pm
Rudy Giuliani is interviewed on September 9, 2022 about the September 11th 2001 (9/11/01) terror attacks in New York City (NYC). (File Photo by: zz/John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx 2022 9/9/22.)
When Rudy Giuliani defamed two poll workers with bunk allegations of election fraud in 2020, it triggered a wave of threats so acute, one of the workers was forced to flee her longtime home in Georgia. Now, the ally to former President Donald Trump — and his co-defendant in the racketeering case in Fulton County — is experiencing some domicile difficulties of his own.
In a motion filed Thursday, Giuliani, who owes election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss $148 million for defaming them, asked a bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York to let him keep his Florida condominium, valued at $3.5 million, as he fights the judgment on appeal.
The former New York mayor’s attorneys wrote in the 12-page motion that the recommendation by the Committee on Unsecured Creditors that he sell the home since declaring bankruptcy was premature.
“It appears that the Committee is assuming that most if not all of the Freeman judgment will survive on appeal, and is proceeding as if all of the Debtor’s assets need to be liquidated now to satisfy a potentially inflated claim. The debtor could be irreparably harmed if the Florida residence is sold and later it turns out that the Freeman judgment is vacated,” the instant motion states.
The committee told him there was “no legal basis” for him to keep the property.
Giuliani does not oppose the sale of his property in Manhattan, however. That property could be sold so he could make his primary residence in Florida, he contends. His lawyers noted that the New York property is expected to be listed by Sotheby’s soon for $5 million.
With that home sold, Giuliani said he expects “his monthly expenses will be significantly reduced.”
Though he claims creditors are accusing him of operating with “reckless abandon and improper judgment” in his attempt to hold onto the Florida property, Giuliani says he is “using sound business judgment” by acknowledging that one property must be sold while he keeps the other to “grow his broadcast income,” the motion states.
Debtors should not be forced to sell property where there is a “valid business justification,” he argues.
And as bankruptcy proceedings have been underway in recent weeks, Giuliani has emphasized repeatedly that his income flows from those broadcasting and podcasting businesses. As Law&Crime previously reported, the podcasts include Common Sense, which is distributed through YouTube, Rumble and Spike, as well as Uncovering the Truth, and The Rudy Giuliani Show. Giuliani streams those podcasts live on Instagram.
“Once the New York apartment is sold, the debtor will need a place to operate the Podcast from if he is to earn any money therefrom, the only remaining location would be from the Florida Condominium. The debtor is actually saving money as he does not need to pay for and maintain both a Podcast studio and his residence in both New York City and Florida,” his attorneys wrote.
In fact, they added, it was that income, and whatever future income he may earn, that would “only serve to benefit creditors.”
How profitable those future podcasts may be could be a bit unpredictable. Giuliani is still working to remain relevant on right-wing sites, though. To wit, on Thursday night during an appearance on the Rob Schmitt Tonight program for Newsmax, Giuliani railed about the judge overseeing Trump’s defamation case with writer E. Jean Carroll. He called the judge a “disgrace” and continued with his take on the judge’s findings.
“[Trump] was found not liable for rape,” he said. “It was sexual assault. Not rape. And second, you can be guilty of rape and still a person could be a whacko. That was the defamation — you’re allowed to defend yourself against defamation.”
Carroll claimed Trump raped and sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in the 1990s and at trial, she said he used both his fingers and penis to do so. The jury found he had only used his fingers, causing both immediate pain as well as long-lasting emotional psychological harm, as Law&Crime previously reported, but presiding Judge Lewis Kaplan explained even though jurors had not found Trump “raped” her under the technical definition — New York state law limits rape to the insertion of the penis into a person’s vagina — it “does not mean that she failed to prove Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.'”
“Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that,” Lewis wrote.
The “whacko” reference by Giuliani echoes similar commentary Trump used to describe Carroll in a 2022 deposition when he called her a “whack job” and “sick.” That deposition was played for jurors at the this year defamation trial and when asked by attorneys if he stood behind it in 2024, Trump replied: “100%.”
A spokesperson for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
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