Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney for Donald Trump, was held in civil contempt for continuing to falsely accuse the two former Georgia election workers of election fraud in the 2020 election after they won a defamation judgment against him worth over $150 million.
A court-approved agreement in May stated that Giuliani “agreed to be bound by a permanent injunction prohibiting him from repeating the same or similar statements to the statements adjudged to be false and defamatory.” However, according to documents filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., Giuliani has persisted in making false claims about Shaye Mosssay and Ruby Freeman online.
According to the petition, “it took only six months for Mr. Giuliani to resume his defamatory campaign” against the mother and daughter, which included making untrue statements about them on his “America’s Mayor Live” livestream this month. According to the petition, he claimed that they “quadruple”-counted ballots and “fixed the machines” with “hard drives.”
“Unambiguous violations of the Consent Injunction, and the Court should hold him in civil contempt,” the complaint stated. The two are requesting that Giuliani be placed on notice that he will be fined for any further infractions and that he be fined an undisclosed sum for the infractions.
“Fixing the appropriate sanction particularly fixing an amount sufficiently ‘calibrated’ to coerce Giuliani s compliance with the Consent Injunction, in light of his demonstrated willingness to repeatedly violate court orders may require factfinding by this Court after an evidentiary hearing,” the motion stated.
The action was described by Giuliani’s attorney, Ted Goodman, as “a dishonest and duplicitous attack meant to deprive Mayor Rudy Giuliani of his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.”
“The ongoing lawfare against Mayor Giuliani must end,” he declared in a video.
Giuliani was directed by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell to reply to the motion by December 2 and to show up for a hearing on the matter on December 12. She also warned Giuliani that failure to respond by the deadline would be interpreted as a concession of that motion.
Howell discoveredGiuliani was held accountable for defaming Freeman and Moss after he disregarded court orders to provide the two with necessary evidence. The two had sued Giuliani for his allegations against them while he was trying to have the 2020 election results overturned on Trump’s behalf. They said that they lost their employment as a result of the unfounded charges and received several racist death threats.
After a damages trial last year, a jury gave them $148 million. Giuliani is appealing the judge’s subsequent reduction of the award to $146 million.
After that, Giuliani applied for bankruptcy protection, but his petition was rejected because he kept failing to provide the necessary financial records.
This year, Freeman and Moss filed a lawsuit in New York to enforce their ruling, and Giuliani was accused by their lawyers of slow-walking the surrender of his assets and once more neglecting to provide the required filing information. According to court documents, Giuliani started giving up some of his possessions a week ago, including expensive timepieces and a 1980 Mercedes-Benz that had formerly belonged to the legendary Lauren Bacall of Hollywood.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman was informed by Aaron Nathan, one of the workers’ lawyers, that Giuliani had secretly removed goods from his New York apartment that were meant to be given to his client and shipped them to a storage facility. The lawyers added that although they are looking over the storage facility’s contents, Giuliani hasn’t yet turned over some valuables.
“Plaintiff has not turned over any cash, and does not appear to have any intention of turning over any cash beyond a few thousand dollars in one account,” they stated in a court filing this week.
In addition to his Florida condominium unit and his New York Yankees World Series rings, which he claims he gave to his son as a gift, Giuliani is contesting their claim to a few other items. A brief trial is scheduled to begin on January 16 to address those challenges, but Giuliani is requesting that the date be rescheduled because to unidentified “inauguration events” that take place before Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
The lawyers for Moss and Freeman pleaded with the judge to maintain the trial date that was decided upon last month. “Mr. Giuliani s preference for attending an event three days prior to the inauguration itself does not remotely constitute good cause to adjourn this trial,” they stated.
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