前纽约市长鲁迪·朱利安尼周一满足了对他的判决,该判决要求他向两名富尔顿县选举工作人员支付总计1.48亿美元的诽谤赔偿金。
陪审团认定朱利安尼在2023年因诽谤鲁比·弗里曼和叶莎·莫斯而负有责任,因为他们错误地指控他们篡改了佐治亚州2020年的总统选举。
在今年1月达成和解的过程中,他两次被两名不同的联邦法官判藐视法庭,原因是他没有放弃财产,并继续诽谤两名选举工作人员。
法院文件显示,在确定朱利安尼已经完全履行了对弗里曼和莫斯的义务后,和解行动于周一在地区法院被驳回。
在联邦陪审团决定他应该在2024年12月向弗里曼和莫斯支付赔偿金和罚金后不久,朱利安尼开始交出资产。
上个月的协议允许他保留他在佛罗里达的公寓和他的世界职业棒球大赛戒指,他说这些东西是属于他父亲的。
朱利安尼在和解时发表声明说,他同意不再进一步诽谤这两名选举工作人员。它不包括认罪。
朱利安尼此前在纽约和华盛顿被取消律师资格,此前他的律师执照被剥夺,原因是他试图帮助唐纳德·特朗普总统推翻2020年大选。
他的代表特德·古德曼(Ted Goodman)上个月在一份声明中说,原告律师可以从这位前特朗普律师那里拿走财产,“但他们永远不能拿走他非凡的公共服务记录。”
Rudy Giuliani satisfies Fulton County election workers' $148 million defamation case
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday satisfied the judgment against him that required him to pay two Fulton County election workers a total of $148 million for defamation.
A jury found Giuliani liable in 2023 for defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss by falsely accusing them of tampering with the 2020 presidential vote in Georgia.
In the process of reaching a settlement in January, he was held in contempt twice, by two different federal judges, for failing to relinquish possessions and continuing to defame the two election workers.
Court documents showed that the settlement action was dismissed in district court on Monday after it was determined that Giuliani had fully satisfied his obligations to Freeman and Moss.
Giuliani began surrendering assets soon after a federal jury determined what he should pay Freeman and Moss in damages and penalties in December 2024.
The settlement last month allowed him to keep his condo in Florida and his World Series rings, which he said had belonged to his father.
A statement from Giuliani at the time of the settlement said that he would agree not to further defame the two election workers. It did not include an admission of guilt.
Giuliani was previously disbarred in New York and in Washington after his law license was stripped over his efforts to aid President Donald Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 election.
His representative, Ted Goodman, said in a statement last month that the plaintiffs' attorneys could take the possessions from the former Trump lawyer, "but they can never take away his extraordinary record of public service."