'I can't control everything he does': Giuliani lawyer shrugs when confronted by judge

Kathleen Culliton
December 12, 2023 2:21PM ET



Rudy Giuliani. (JEFF Kowalsky/AFP)


The Georgia election poll worker Rudy Giuliani accused of injecting fake votes into the 2020 election was barraged by violent and racist threats that had her fearing for her life, she testified Tuesday.

Shaye Moss, 39, wiped away tears as she shared some of those messages with jurors in her $43 million civil defamation case against the man once known as America’s mayor, ABC News 7 reports.

“I literally felt like someone going to come and attempt to hang me and there's nothing that anyone will be able to do about it," Moss reportedly testified.

"I was afraid for my life.”

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Giuliani has already been found liable for defamation against Moss and Ruby Freeman, two Georgia poll workers swept up in a mass voter fraud conspiracy theory based on what ultimately proved to be a ginger mint.

The former New York City mayor repeatedly claimed Moss and Freeman had been passing around a USB drive packed with fake ballots as part of his efforts to challenge President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

The trial will determine damages.

Moss testified Tuesday that angry messages poured in after Giuliani accused her of election fraud, accusations he's accused of repeating outside the Washington D.C. courtroom Monday evening.

When U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell demanded an explanation from Giuliani’s lawyer Joe Sibley, he reportedly replied, "I can't control everything he does."



https://www.rawstory.com/shaye-moss-defamation-giuliani/

 

And this is the penalty phase. And there is Rudy in front of the cameras telling the same lies he has already has already admitted he is guilty of. What do you think the jury deciding the penalties are going to think about that? Because the judge made sure the jury saw it.






Judge slams Rudy Giuliani for continuing to lie about election workers while he's on trial for lying about them
Jacob Shamsian
Tue, December 12, 2023 at 10:27 AM MST·3 min read
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  Rudy Giuliani got a talking-to from the judge in his ongoing defamation trial Tuesday.
  
  
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The judge overseeing Rudy Giuliani's defamation trial scolded him Tuesday after the disgraced former New York City mayor continued to falsely allege that two Georgia poll workers manipulated ballots in the 2020 election — even after the judge already ruled those claims were false.

US District Judge Beryl Howell said Giuliani's remarks, made outside the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, on Monday evening, could be grounds for additional defamation claims.

"Was Mr. Giuliani just playing for the cameras?" Howell asked, according to Politico.

After the first day of court proceedings Monday, Giuliani told journalists that everything he said about the election workers "was true" and that he had no regrets.

"Of course I don't regret it, I told the truth," Giuliani said. "They were engaged in changing votes."

He said people should "stay tuned" for "proof" of his claims about the workers' conduct during the election, which was more than three years ago.

The election workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, first sued Giuliani in 2021, alleging he defamed them and triggered numerous death threats when he falsely claimed they manipulated ballots in Georgia's 2020 presidential election.

A statewide audit confirmed that now-President Joe Biden won the state's electoral college votes and that Giuliani's client, former President Donald Trump, had lost. A Georgia State Election Board investigation also found no evidence of widespread fraud or any wrongdoing on behalf of Moss and Freeman.

In a Monday night court filing, lawyers for Freeman and Moss brought Giuliani's recent remarks to Howell's attention. They asked the judge to instruct Giuliani not to make the same false claims in court in front of the jury.

"Needless to say, were Defendant Giuliani to testify in a manner remotely resembling those comments, he would be in plain violation of the Court's prior orders in this case conclusively affirming, and reaffirming, that all elements of liability have been established, including that Defendant Giuliani's defamatory statements were false," the lawyers wrote.

In court Tuesday morning, Howell asked whether Giuliani was contradicting the opening statement from his attorney, who had said Giuliani had acted regrettably toward Freeman and Moss, but that others were to blame for the threats they received.

"I'm not sure how it's reconcilable," Giuliani's attorney Joseph Sibley said, according to Politico.

In August, Howell handed Freeman and Moss a major win in their lawsuit against Giuliani. She ruled that Giuliani defamed them, and that he failed to produce sufficient evidence in his defense during the discovery process. Howell also slapped Giuliani with $132,000 in fees and fines to reimburse lawyers for Moss and Freeman for numerous costs, and for his business failing to produce evidence in the case.

The 8-person jury in the ongoing defamation trial will cover only damages for the defamation claims, which may reach as high as $43 million.

The trial, which is scheduled https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-slams-rudy-giuliani-continuing-172700748.htmlto last until Thursday, is one of numerous legal and financial headaches for Giuliani, a once-celebrated attorney who has fallen into disrepute after pushing lies about the 2020 election results.

Two election technology companies, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, each have pending defamation lawsuits against him. Giuliani is also, along with Trump, a co-defendant in a criminal case brought by prosecutors in Georgia over attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-slams-rudy-giuliani-continuing-172700748.html

 

'It's as clear as day': Giuliani judge berates lawyer for missing 'critical things'

David Edwards
December 13, 2023 12:58PM ET



Rudy Giuliani Mugshot (Fulton County sheriff's office)


U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell reportedly chastised Joe Sibley, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, after he missed a key detail on court documents.

During the third day of Giuliani's defamation trial, expert witness Dr. Ashlee Humphreys testified that it would take millions to restore the reputations of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after they were falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election.

She estimated that $28.4 million to $47 million would be spent to restore the women's reputations. Humphreys expected the campaign to include YouTube and Facebook advertisements.

"So the takeaway here: It can cost A LOT of money to repair your reputation and it can cost even more money to repair your reputation among ppl who would not be easily swayed even WITH repeated exposure to positive messaging," reporter Brandi Buchman noted.



As the trial broke for lunch, Sibley noticed that the damages for Freeman and Moss had been lumped together on the verdict form.

"Judge chastises Giuliani's lawyer Joe Sibley for saying he didn't notice the verdict form lumped both plaintiffs together," Sam Levine reported for The Guardian. "'It's as clear as day,' she said. You're not noticing some critical things, she said."

https://www.rawstory.com/giuliani-howell-sibley/

 

Trump lawyer Alina Habba humiliated in appeals court during Michael Cohen hearing

Sarah K. Burris
December 14, 2023 5:55PM ET



NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 21: Alina Habba, lawyer for former President Donald Trump, gives an interview outside of Trump Tower on March 21, 2023 in New York City. NYC and other cities are bracing for a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in his investigation into the former president's involvement in a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)


Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was back in court on Thursday for his ongoing case U.S. vs. Cohen, in which the ex-fixer argues that his case against former Attorney General Bill Barr, and the Trump government should be able to move forward.

Among the issues cited is that Cohen was told by the Bureau of Prisons that he could only be allowed out on home confinement if he agreed not to speak to the press or write anything about Trump. He refused, and was promptly thrown back into prison and isolated in solitary confinement. When he took the case to court, a judge found that it was against his First Amendment rights and he was released in the middle of the pandemic.

"We are here to vindicate every American’s right to speak freely about their government without fear of imprisonment," Cohen's lawyer Jon-Michael Dougherty said in a statement. "We are here because Donald Trump, with the help of his Attorney General and officials at the Bureau of Prisons, attempted to use the prisons to silence Michael Cohen. They failed, only because the courts stopped the abuse."

An ongoing concern is developing as Trump continues his 2024 election campaign while promising "revenge." In his pledge to punish his foes and use the federal government to go after the media, Cohen's case argues that no president should have the power to use the Justice Department and the prison system to strike out against their critics.

The Washington Post reported in November that "in private, Trump has told advisers and friends... that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John F. Kelly, and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to people who have talked to him, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations." They also cite FBI and DOJ officials that Trump purportedly wants to target.

Cohen has argued that this targeting of foes is illegal and has no business in an American democracy. His case could potentially provide a safeguard ensuring that the courts will shut down such behavior by the executive branch were Trump to try it again in a new administration.

In his statement, Cohen's lawyer pointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which agreed that Cohen's rights were violated and that the conduct was retaliation from the Trump government.

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"A different judge of the same court reluctantly dismissed my client’s suit to hold the President and his accomplices accountable, noting the dismissal did 'profound violence' to my client’s rights," Dougherty continued. "We are grateful to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for considering what the District Court urged—that the character of this nation, that the intent of its founders require there be a remedy against a rogue President and his subordinates who would resort to the prisons to silence critics. I thank Mr. Cohen for entrusting me and my colleagues with his cause, to ensure all Americans can say what they want about their government without fear of retribution and to ensure that rogue Presidents know that they are Presidents, and not kings."

Those speaking before the Court were Cohen's lawyers, the Justice Department, and Trump's lawyer Alina Habba. The arguments took less than 30 minutes, ten minutes for each side. But it was significantly less, possibly because Habba's presentation was so short.

While the Justice Department prosecutors experienced tough questions from the appeals panel, it was Habba who sent one judge to simply hold his head in his hands.

"What would deter a president from engaging in behavior like this if we don't use Bibbins?" asked one of the female judges, indistinguishable on audio.

"That's not a part of this," said Habba, citing Nixon v. Fitzgerald, a case in which a civilian analyst with the United States Air Force was fired after testifying before a congressional committee that there were inefficiencies and cost overruns.

"So, you're basically conceding there's no deterrence available? There's nothing to deter?" the judge cut in.

Habba claimed she thinks the "deterrence" was that Cohen was able to be released in spite of Trump's actions when he sought an injunction from a judge.

"What is deterring behavior like this again?" the judge asked.

Habba claimed that the ruling by the judge in Cohen's case is what deters it in the future. She said that the biggest prevention is "separation of powers."

"Ok, so," the judge cut in again, "the allegation, and again, we are at this point where we need to take the allegations, was that someone pulled strings to retaliate against someone related to a personal vendetta. How does that fall within a president's official capacity as an office holder?"

"Well, first of all, before I'm willing to answer that your honor, I have to say that the complaint does not have facts that President Trump did it. It's an allegation based on Mr. Cohen's interpretation of what happened when he was trying to get out on release," claimed Habba. She said that in the Nixon case, there was an actual recording that caught Nixon in the act.

"In this case, he has absolutely no facts," said Habba. "It's a Michael Cohen assumption."

Cohen has worked with at least three members of Congress trying to get such evidence. Until recently, the government claimed there was no evidence. As his persistence continued requesting documents, they revealed that there were now too many documents, over 450,000, which addressed Cohen's queries about his case and the retaliation.

"So, you're saying it's too conclusory for us to credit?" the judge stepped in again.

"Absolutely," Habba agreed.

The judge then asked Habba if she was familiar with Blassingame v. Trump.

"Not off the top of my head, your honor," said Habba.

The case in question was decided last week and found that Trump doesn't have absolute immunity in civil cases. It's the case of the Capitol police who were injured on Jan. 6. They have argued Trump is responsible for actions he took as a candidate and not in his official capacity as president, which was agreed to by the appeals court.

Habba, who has worked as Trump's lawyer for more than a year, said she wasn't aware of the case.

Habba said that if the decision isn't from the Supreme Court then it takes a second seat to Bibbins.

The judge interrupted and explained that Bibbins is an official act case and the one she questioned Habba about was about presidential immunity.

Habba said that in Cohen's filing the case says that the individuals he is targeting acted in their official capacity. Cohen is arguing that Trump used his power of the presidency to target and silence as a perceived foe.

"He admits that the president is working within his job as the president of the United States and his complaint fails under absolute immunity," said Habba. "So, frankly it fails on two levels."

Habba continued to speak using her prepared remarks. She talked for a little less than a minute before the judge stepped in.

"I think, I thank you for your time if my colleagues don't have any questions," the judge said.

You can listen to the audio under Cohen v. United States 23-35.



https://www.rawstory.com/alina-habba-cut-short-second-circuit/

 

I will get the details later but if I am hearing it right the damages and punitive damages for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss against Rudy Giuliani amount to $150 million.

 

But how much will they receive when he declares bankruptcy there will be a long queue of people trying to get there money.And of course he may have of already transferred money out of the USA.

 

Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman might not get anywhere near the $148 million but their lawyers seem confident Giuliani has assets and they have ways of going after them.




‘How Are You Gonna Collect?’ Joy Reid Lists Giuliani’s Massive Financial Woes and Asks Plaintiffs’ Lawyer How They’re Going to Get Paid

Michael LucianoDec 15th, 2023, 7:41 pm


Joy Reid asked an attorney for two election workers how they intend to collect the $148 million a jury awarded them in their defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani.

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, Giuliani and a cadre of Trump hangers-on spread deranged conspiracy theories claiming the election had been stolen. Giuliani took matters a step further by singling out Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss – two election workers in Georgia. He claimed they were handling election-altering USB drives “like vials of heroin or cocaine.”

The “drives” turned out to be mints.

The judge in the case issued a summary judgment deeming Giuliani liable for defamation after the former New York mayor admitted he made false statements about Freeman and Moss. A jury subsequently awarded the hefty sum to the plaintiffs. Throughout the case, Giuliani lashed out against the two and the judge.


On Friday’s edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC, the host interviewed the plaintiffs’ attorney, Von Dubose – to whom she listed Giuliani’s myriad financial woes.


“At this moment, Rudy Giuliani owes $500,000 in unpaid taxes,” she noted. “The IRS has a lien on his Palm Beach property. He’s selling his Upper East Side property. It’s on the market for $6 million, but it hasn’t been sold yet. “And his consulting firm defaulted on a debt for a phone bill. How are you gonna collect?”

“We’ve already put the pieces in motion for that,” he replied. “We are intending to collect every nickel of it. We’ll see how much we ultimately find and how much we ultimately recover. But we are putting the pieces together right now.”


“Just to sort of help our audience understand how this works, can these ladies put a lien on his properties?” Reid asked. “Would his tax returns be taken? Like, pragmatically, how could you make him pay?”

“Every enforcement measure at our fingertips will be put in play,” Dubose said. “So we’ll look at liens. We’ll look at garnishments, levies. We’ll look at everything. We’ll look at everything, absolutely.”

Watch above via MSNBC.


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/how-are...aintiffs-lawyer-how-theyre-going-to-get-paid/

 

Well, like engoron and james, they won't be getting a dime until the appeals finish up.

 

We now try people just because we don't like them??

Because they're "scumbags"?

 

I'm sure you know better. We try people for what they did. And when they did the despicable things they are charged with, we call them scumbags.

 

Specially when hes a deplorable, eh?

 

One thing to remember is previous court hearings Giuliani admitted under oath he was lying about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss And he admired he knew he was lying at the time. So what does he do on his way to losing a $148 million judgment? Steps out in front of the cameras and tells the same lies again. Which is the same thing we see around here where treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans just keep telling the same lies over and over and over again no matter how many times they are proven lies. It is their attempt to crate the "illusion of truth."

Which will of course cost them nothing. But that is not true for Rudy lying about and defaming to innocent women. That has already cost him once and is now going to cost him again. And I am very glad to see it.


Rudy Giuliani hit with second defamation lawsuit from former election workers

David Edwards
December 18, 2023 4:32PM ET



WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks with reporters outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. A jury has ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million in damages to Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)


Former election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman filed a second lawsuit against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Just days after a jury ordered Giuliani to pay Moss and Freeman $148 million, the pair again asked the court to sanction him.

In the new lawsuit, Freeman and Moss asked the court for "injunctive relief to permanently bar Defendant Rudolph W. Giuliani ('Defendant') from persisting in his defamatory campaign."

Giuliani has alleged that the two former election workers rigged the vote for President Joe Biden. He continued to make the claims during his defamation trial last week.

"When I testify, the whole story will be definitively clear that what I said was true, and that, whatever happened to them -- which is unfortunate about other people overreacting -- everything I said about them is true," Giuliani told reporters.

Moss and Freeman explained why the court should take the unusual step of silencing Giuliani.

"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," the filing stated. "It must stop. In these unique circumstances, the proper remedy is a targeted injunction barring Defendant Giuliani from continuing to repeat the very falsehoods about Plaintiffs that have already been found and held, conclusively, to be defamatory."

Moss and Freeman are asking for attorney fees and other damages at the court's discretion.



https://www.rawstory.com/rudy-giuliani-moss-freeman-lawsuit/

 

Well then.
So Giuliani is a scum bag for lying about election workers.
And trumps a scum bag cause ..... well, trump.

OK

Hunter and joe both qualify as scumbags along with Nancy Antoinette and, what the hell, lets toss Harris in there while we're at it.

There.
A wasted thread and posts.

 

'Got exactly what he deserved': Dominion lawyer heaps dirt on Rudy Giuliani after verdict

Brad Reed
December 18, 2023 9:27AM ET



WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks with reporters outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. A jury has ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million in damages to Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)


An attorney who represented Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News heaped dirt upon Rudy Giuliani after a jury last week ordered him to pay $148 million to defamed election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Appearing on CNN Monday, attorney Rodney Smolla explained how Giuliani drove himself into a ditch by failing to fully comply with discovery requests ahead of his trial.

"He really flouted the system twice," argued Smolla. "Originally, the original lies were an affront to the rule of law, and then he refused to do what every litigant must do in this country, which is to produce the evidence that you have. So having done that two times, in my view, he got exactly what he deserved."

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Smolla also made the case that Giuliani's lies damaged much more than the reputations of Freeman and Moss.

"I think it's very important to emphasize that, not only did these lies damage brave people like Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman or the Dominion Voting company, but they damaged the whole country," he said. "They damage our faith in the integrity of our election system, and there has to be some accountability for that and these defamation cases at least stand for the proposition that, eventually, these falsehoods will come home to roost."

Watch the video below or at this link.




https://www.rawstory.com/rudy-giuliani-defamation-trial-2666621406/

 

And this is just the first defamation suit. Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have already filed another one because Rudy keeps defaming them.



Judge orders immediate enforcement of Georgia election workers' $148M judgment against Giuliani
LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN
Wed, December 20, 2023 at 5:50 PM MST·1 min read
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A federal judge on Wednesday granted former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss' request to expedite their $148 million judgment against Rudy Giuliani, saying that the mother and daughter have "good cause" to fear Giuliani may attempt to avoid paying them.

Following a week-long trial, a federal jury last week ordered Giuliani to pay nearly $150 million to the two women for defaming them with false accusations that they committed election fraud while counting ballots in Georgia's Fulton County on Election Day in 2020.



Freeman and Moss subsequently asked the judge to "permit immediate enforcement" of the judgment out of concern that the former New York City mayor could attempt to "find a way to dissipate [his] assets before plaintiffs are able to recover."

Judge Beryl Howell agreed Wednesday that Giuliani's record as an "unwilling and uncooperative litigant" provides the plaintiffs "good cause to believe that he will seek to dissipate or conceal his assets" before paying them.


PHOTO: Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2023. (Jose Luis Magana/AP, FILE)
Howell added that other civil cases filed against Giuliani -- including one filed by his former attorney, Robert Costello, and another filed by President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden -- "raise the risk that Giuliani has even greater motivation to hide his financial assets from potential future judgments against him."

If Giuliani intends to appeal the judgment, which he has indicated he plans to do, he "would have to comply with the usual requirement of a full supersedeas bond," Howell wrote, meaning that he may have to post a bond in the full amount of the judgment, Howell said.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/judge-orders-immediate-enforcement-georgia-000600120.html

 

Rude Boy just filed for bankruptcy

 

They say he owes $500 million and his assets he claims is only $10 million. Plus what he as hidden .Will his best friend Trump help him out?

 

Now all this is just too cute by half. Captain Ass Hat talking about Rudy's drinking problem. MSNBC finally shit canned him and his show. But Morning Joe is trying to rehabilitate him by giving him airtime.


'It's a mess': Ex-MSNBC anchor claims Giuliani 'has to deal with the alcohol problem'

Tom Boggioni
December 21, 2023 10:54AM ET



Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, departs from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)


Appearing on "Morning Joe" on Thursday morning, Chris Matthews was asked by host Joe Scarborough how ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani fell so far and so fast and the ex-MSNBC anchor pinned it on two things — alcohol abuse and being under the sway of Donald Trump.

Reacting to Giuliani's fortunes that just saw him take a $148 million hit in a defamation trial, Matthews called the former mayor's life a "mess."

Noting that he had been covering Giuliani for decades, Matthews seemed stunned at how far the former mayor had gone off the rails.

"It's booze," he told the host before elaborating, "It's probably a combination of booze and this crazy Donald Trump affection that he has and trusting in Trump and all the calculation he did with what he said about the election workers in Georgia."

"It's a mess," he added. "He has to deal with the alcohol problem."

"It's not going to be a great future," he predicted. "All this money he owes, $150 million, how do you look in the mirror and say 'I owe that money' with no clear means of income coming in? I mean, it's tough."

Watch below or at the link.

https://www.rawstory.com/it-s-a-mes...iuliani-has-to-deal-with-the-alcohol-problem/

 

Got get 'em Rudy. Shaye and Ruby want every dime you can make.


Giuliani hawks bizarre vitamin bottle Xmas ornaments after financially ruinous verdict

Adam Nichols
December 21, 2023 9:19AM ET



Rudy Giuliani (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)



Just hours after former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was told to immediately pay the massive $148 million bill he was hit with in a defamation ruling, he was on his show touting bizarre Christmas decorations made out of empty vitamin bottles.

The ex-New York City mayor was told Wednesday he must pay Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss immediately after an earlier ruling set the damages for defaming them with claims that they helped rig the 2020 election count in Georgia.

But later that evening, he was on his livestreamed program America’s Mayor Live touting Balance of Nature supplements, the proceeds of which he said could “help me fight the traitors.”

Telling listeners to take the supplements — which the Food and Drug Administration has flagged for “the company’s claims that its products could be used to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent diseases such as cancer, heart disease, cirrhosis, diabetes, asthma, and COVID-19” — he got into the holiday spirit with ideas of how to use the bottles when they’re empty.


“This one’s going on the tree now,” he said, holding up a Balance of Nature bottle with a wire hook that looked like a bent paper clip in it. He added that the supplements are also “wonderful as a stocking stuffer.”

Giuliani has been associated with Balance of Nature for several months, plugging the company on his show and in social media and taking part in commercials promoting the products.

https://www.rawstory.com/giuliani-defamation-2666723677/

 

Rudy Giuliani's 11 court cases, ranked in order of how screwed he is
Jacob Shamsian
Mon, December 25, 2023 at 6:52 PM MST·9 min read
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In MAGAworld, the man with the most legal problems is Donald Trump.

Throw a dart at a 2024 calendar, and there's a pretty good chance you'll hit a date where there's a trial or hearing for one of Trump's four criminal cases or numerous civil lawsuits.

In a close second is Rudy Giuliani.

On Thursday, Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a decision spurred by a jury verdict finding he should pay $148 million for defaming two Georgia election workers. He is also a co-defendant, along with Trump, in Fulton County's sprawling racketeering criminal case over their efforts to interfere in the 2020 election. Those efforts have gotten the once-renowned lawyer sanctioned in New York, and he is on the verge of losing his ability to practice in DC.

Lately, Giuliani has gone on the offense. He filed a defamation lawsuit against President Joe Biden for calling him a "Russian pawn." And, despite the massive jury verdict in DC, he persists in falsely claiming the Georgia election workers manipulated ballots.

The future for Giuliani does not look good, and his bankruptcy filing won't get rid of his legal problems. Here are his 11 major ongoing court cases, ranked in order of how much of a threat they are.

11. The $2 million grocery store employee lawsuit
In 2022, while Giuliani was campaigning for his son Andrew Giuliani's failed campaign for governor in New York, he got into a kerfuffle with a grocery store employee on Staten Island.

According to Giuliani, he "got hit" by the employee, Daniel Gill, "as if a boulder hit me." Giuliani talked to police, who kept Gill behind bars for a day and brought assault charges, which were ultimately dropped.

Gill sued Giuliani in 2023, alleging defamation and false arrest. Security video shows that Gill — who admits he's no fan of Giuliani — merely patted him on the back and verbally insulted him.

The former New York City mayor hasn't hired a lawyer and is representing himself in the lawsuit. As with the Georgia election worker case, it's another example of a defamation lawsuit where Giuliani made apparently false claims against a decidedly non-public figure. But the lawsuit still awaits a decision from the judge on whether to dismiss it ahead of trial.

10. The blueberry farmers and a Ukraine film
While Giuliani was working as a personal lawyer for Donald Trump, he raised funds for a would-be "documentary" in Ukraine about Joe and Hunter Biden.

Two California farmers, Baldev and Kewel Munger, plowed $1 million into the project, which never happened. In August, they sued Giuliani, asking for their money back.

9. Hunter Biden's laptop
Giuliani has proudly peddled the salacious contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, attempting to tie it to his father, President Joe Biden, and fueling an impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives.


FILE - Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, speaks to guests during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, April 18, 2022, in Washington.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
In 2023, Hunter Biden struck back. He filed lawsuits against Giuliani and other allies, accusing them of hacking and tampering with his data, which he says was stolen.

The lawsuit cuts into the heart of First Amendment issues with political opposition research and is still in the early phases of litigation.

8. Unpaid legal bills
Giuliani retained the law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron to represent him in criminal investigations related to his 2020 election interference efforts.

But, according to a lawsuit from the firm, Giuliani never paid everything he owed. Giuliani paid only $214,000 of the $1.5 million owed, the lawsuit claims.

In court filings, Giuliani claimed that he signed an agreement with the attorney Robert Costello, and not Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, where Costello works. It remains to be seen whether a judge will buy his argument.

7. Dominion
After Trump lost the 2020 election, Giuliani, then working as his personal lawyer, went on a media tour falsely claiming that the results were rigged by two technology companies: Dominion and Smartmatic.

He spun a fantastical tale claiming that Dominion and Smartmatic, in cahoots with Hugo Chavez, the deceased Venezuelan president, secretly colluded to manipulate ballot counts.

It was completely false, and Dominion and Smartmatic both sued.


Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, left, listens to Sidney Powell, both lawyers for President Donald Trump, during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Dominion has already scored a major victory in its many lawsuits, winning a historic $787.5 million settlement from Fox News for providing a platform for Giuliani's false claims.

The separate lawsuit, against Giuliani himself, remains pending. And even though Giuliani declared bankruptcy, Dominion declared it would pursue its lawsuit to hold him "accountable" even if the company wouldn't recover much money.

6. Smartmatic
Smartmatic's litigation against Giuliani has been moving more slowly, but its tactics are even more aggressive.

It has sued Fox News, Giuliani, and fellow election conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell all in one lawsuit, asking for an even greater sum of damages: $2.7 billion.

After Giuliani convinced a judge to drop some of the claims against him, Smartmatic went to an appeals court and got them reinstated, giving him little room to maneuver when the case goes to trial, possibly in 2025.

5. Noelle Dunphy
Earlier this year, Dunphy sued Giuliani, accusing him of sexually abusing her while she worked for him and failing to pay the salary he promised.

The other civil lawsuits against Giuliani all share a common theme, generally speaking: Giuliani spread nonsense about the 2020 election between Trump and Joe Biden and got in trouble for it.


Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is seen outside his apartment building after his law license was suspended in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., June 24, 2021.REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Dunphy's lawsuit is far more personal, and the allegations far more damning. The litigation thus far has included vivid, embarrassing details, such as that he demanded oral sex while on the phone with Trump and used slurs for minority groups.

At this point, Giuliani's falsehoods about the election have already sent his reputation spiraling. Dunphy's claims would bring it to an even lower level.

4. The Georgia election workers
Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss — the two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million verdict against Giuliani — deserve a spot near the top of this list because they've already gone to trial.

The damages in the other civil cases, at this point, are all theoretical. With this case, Freeman and Moss struck a blow.

Even worse for Giuliani, the judge overseeing the case allowed them to enforce the judgment on a faster schedule than usual, noting Giuliani's past efforts to wriggle himself out of accountability. It was only then that Giuliani filed for bankruptcy.

While the bankruptcy case runs its course, Freeman and Moss are ahead of all the other plaintiffs in getting money from him, by sheer virtue of already winning a jury trial.

3. The Georgia election workers — Part II
While Giuliani was on trial, he continued to falsely claim in public statements that Freeman and Moss manipulated ballots in Georgia.

Shortly after Freeman and Moss won their first case, they sued him a second time, asking for more defamation damages.


WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss speak outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. A jury has ordered Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, to pay $148 million in damages to the two Fulton County election workers.Alex Wong/Getty Images
They might just get it. In the first case, jurors decided to award $75 million — the majority — in punitive damages, which are designed to send a message and deter the same conduct in the future.

Giuliani is clearly unbothered by the jury's decision and continues to falsely claim in public statements that Freeman and Moss helped steal the election. In the next round in court, a jury may decide that $75 million wasn't enough and bring even more punitive damages.

2. Unindicted co-conspirator No. 1
While Giuliani may end up owing hundreds of millions of dollars once his civil lawsuits wrap up, none of them can land him behind bars.

Criminal cases can.

Giuliani — once one of the most powerful figures in the Department of Justice — isn't explicitly named in Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminal case against Donald Trump over election interference, but he still plays an important role.


Donald Trump with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani at Trump's Ferry Point Golf Club in the Bronx in 2015.Corey Sipkin/Getty Images
Giuliani is "Co-conspirator 1" in the indictment, described as working hand-in-glove with Trump to file fraudulent lawsuits to overturn the election results in swing states and organizing a slate of fake electors to have Congress wrongly recognize Trump as the winner.

Smith is planning to bring Trump to trial next year, but he has already laid out the essence of a criminal case against Giuliani, and may still bring it.

1. The Fulton County criminal case
In Georgia, Giuliani is already a criminal defendant.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis included him as a defendant in her sprawling election interference racketeering case. It was an ignominious milestone for a man who once pioneered the use of RICO cases as a prosecutor. Along with Trump, he faces the most criminal counts against him in the case.

Several co-defendants — including Sidney Powell — have already taken plea deals with prosecutors. Their cooperation in the case makes things riskier for Giuliani, since some of them worked directly with him in his election interference efforts.

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