Rudy Giuliani, the previous private lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, departs the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse on December 11, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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Rudy Giuliani was sued again Monday by two former Georgia election workers who final week received a virtually $150 million defamation verdict towards him for false statements that the lawyer made about them whereas representing Donald Trump after the 2020 election.
The newest federal lawsuit seeks an injunction to “completely bar” Giuliani from making additional defamatory statements towards the mom and daughter, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, together with by claiming they engaged in election fraud, criminality or different misconduct.
The go well with says the former New York City mayor, regardless of being discovered civilly answerable for defaming the ladies, “has engaged in, and is participating in, a unbroken course of repetitive false speech and harassment —particularly, repeating time and again the identical lies that Plaintiffs engaged in election fraud throughout their service as election workers throughout the 2020 presidential election.”
The new civil criticism was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
On Friday, a jury in that court docket discovered that Giuliani must be pressured to pay more than $148 million to Freeman and Moss for falsely claiming they dedicated poll fraud. The girls testified at trial they acquired loss of life threats and suffered emotional hurt on account of Giuliani’s claims, which have been echoed by Trump and others.
Giuliani referred to as the decision “absurd,” and stated he deliberate to enchantment it. The verdict solely addressed the query of financial damages; the decide within the case earlier this 12 months dominated that Giuliani had defamed the ladies along with his statements.
The new lawsuit stated that days earlier than the decision was delivered, and even afterward Giuliani “continued to unfold the exact same lies for which he has already been held liable.”
“Standing in entrance of the cameras, Defendant Giuliani acknowledged that his forthcoming testimony would make: ‘definitively clear that what I stated was true, and that, no matter occurred to them — which is unlucky about different folks overreacting — every little thing I stated about them is true,’ ” the criticism famous.
“When requested whether or not he regretted his actions, Defendant Giuliani acknowledged: ‘Of course I do not remorse it . . . I instructed the reality. They have been engaged in altering votes,’ ” the criticism stated. “Finally, when a reporter identified that there was ‘no proof of that,’ Defendant Giuliani acknowledged, ‘You’re rattling proper there may be . . . . Stay tuned.’ “
Despite saying he would testify, Giuliani didn’t take the witness stand on the trial.
He was criminally charged with Trump and different defendants in Georgia state court docket with conspiring to overturn Trump’s loss within the 2020 election in that state to President Joe Biden.
Giuliani and Trump have pleaded not responsible in that case, as have many of the different defendants.