The fraud formerly known as, "America's Mayor," has been ordered to pay $148 Million to poll workers that he defamed.
He accused them of fraud, helped doxx them, and continued to slander them, even after the verdict.
Part of the verdict is for "Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress," which is not dischargeable by bankruptcy, because it is, "Intentional."
He could appeal, but he would have to post a bond amounting to millions of dollars, and by his own accounts, he is broke:
A jury on Friday ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers who said he had destroyed their reputations with lies that they tried to steal the 2020 election from Donald J. Trump.
Judge Beryl A. Howell of the Federal District Court in Washington had already ruled that Mr. Giuliani had defamed the two workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. The jury had been asked to decide only on the amount of the damages.
The jury awarded Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss a combined $75 million in punitive damages. It also ordered Mr. Giuliani to pay compensatory damages of $16.2 million to Ms. Freeman and $16.9 million to Ms. Moss, as well as $20 million to each of them for emotional suffering.
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“I don’t regret a damn thing,” he said outside the courthouse, suggesting that he would appeal and that he stood by his assertions about the two women.
He said that the torrent of attacks and threats the women received from Trump supporters were “abominable” and “deplorable,” but that he was not responsible for them.
Crocodile tears from a complete piece of s%$.
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Mr. Giuliani’s net worth is unknown because he refused to comply with the court’s requirement to provide that information. A lawyer familiar with his legal situation said after the verdict that Mr. Giuliani was likely to file for bankruptcy protection. But because the damages he owes Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss are considered an “intentional tort,” bankruptcy would not erase his liability, lawyers said.
Refusing to comply? That's the sort of behavior that should have him perp-walked into the court room in handcuffs and charged with contempt.
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Mr. Giuliani did not testify at the trial. He said afterward that was because “if I made any mistake or did anything wrong,” he thought the judge would hold him in contempt or put him in jail. “And I thought, honestly, it wouldn’t do me any good.”
But Brave Sir Rudy promised that he would testify, and that he would exonerate himself?
What stopped Mr. "A Noun, a Verb, and 911," from showing the great bravery that we all know that he is capable of?
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Lawyers for Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss had asked the jury to send a message when deciding what Mr. Giuliani should pay.
“Send it to Mr. Giuliani,” one of the lawyers, Michael J. Gottlieb, said in his closing argument on Thursday. “Send it to any other powerful figure with a platform and an audience who is considering whether they will take the chance to seek profit and fame by assassinating the moral character of ordinary people.”
My name is Matthew Saroff, and I approve this message.
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