{"id":904,"date":"2024-01-15T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=904"},"modified":"2024-01-15T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T02:18:25","slug":"criminal-justice-detail_2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=904","title":{"rendered":"CRIMINAL JUSTICE_DETAIL_2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">CRIMINAL JUSTICE<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\"><strong>DECEMBER 15, 2023<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rudy Giuliani Ordered to Pay $148 Million to the Election Workers He Defamed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Ill-advised legal tactics and a lack of contrition made the situation worse for Trump\u2019s ex-lawyer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MICHAEL SAINATO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/rudy-sized.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-608\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/rudy-sized.webp 321w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/rudy-sized-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Rudy Giuliani arrives at federal court in Washington on Dec. 15.<strong>Jim Lo Scalzo\/Zuma<\/strong><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>On Friday, a jury<\/strong>&nbsp;unanimously ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million in compensatory and punitive damages to two Georgia election workers he defamed. The judgment furthers the incredible downfall of a guy once known as \u201cAmerica\u2019s mayor\u201d and likely will cement his financial ruin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giuliani\u2019s defamation trial was never going to be good for him. But the former New York mayor made it worse through seemingly arrogant and flat-out stupid conduct that irked the judge and did him no favors with jurors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December 2020, Giuliani, working to boost Donald Trump\u2019s effort to use lies about election fraud to retain power, claimed that a misleadingly cropped video showed Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, pulling \u201csuitcases\u201d of \u201cillegal\u201d ballots from under a table at a Fulton County Georgia vote-counting center. He also claimed the two Black women were surreptitiously passing around \u201cUSB ports\u201d like \u201cvials of heroin or cocaine.\u201d Moss&nbsp;told&nbsp;the January 6 committee last year she and Freeman were actually exchanging a ginger mint.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese people should all go to jail,\u201d Giuliani said in the Dec. 4 video. \u201cFor a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giuliani kept accusing the women of election fraud, including in public testimony, after the office of Georgia\u2019s Republican Secretary of State had already investigated and debunked those claims. (He also faces criminal&nbsp;charges&nbsp;related to his efforts to help Trump concoct phony election fraud claims in Georgia.) Giuliani\u2019s lies resulted in extensive and racist harassment of Freeman and Moss, including death threats, they later&nbsp;testified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sued by Moss and Freeman, Giuliani tried to sidestep the discovery process. He&nbsp;admitted&nbsp;in July that his claims about Freeman and Moss were \u201cdefamatory\u201d and \u201cfalse.\u201d Giuliani claimed his admission was \u201cfor the purposes of this litigation only.\u201d&nbsp;But District Court Judge Beryl Howell cited it in a default ruling that Giuliani was liable for the \u201cdefamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy, and punitive damage\u201d claims Freeman and Moss raised. That meant his trial was held only to determine damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giuliani&nbsp;arrived&nbsp;20 minutes late for the first day of trial, tardiness his lawyer&nbsp;attributed&nbsp;to a long courthouse security line. Later that day, Giuliani&nbsp;told&nbsp;reporters outside the courthouse that he didn\u2019t regret his statements. \u201cI told the truth,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were engaged in changing votes.\u201d He said he would testify and provide proof that \u201ceverything I said about them is true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStay tuned because they have no idea what we\u2019re going to hit them with,\u201d Giuliani&nbsp;said&nbsp;on his social media show that night. \u201cNo idea. You\u2019ll see. We\u2019ve been working on it for some time. It\u2019s all prepared. Time to take the gloves off\u2026We don\u2019t play Tiddlywinks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giuliani\u2019s boasts could open him up to more damages. The next morning, Howell, without jurors present, noted he had already passed up the chance to argue his claims were accurate. She said Giuliani\u2019s statements&nbsp;were \u201cagain negative and quite defamatory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his tough talk outside the courtroom, Giuliani chose not to testify in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His lawyer, Joseph Sibley later argued that awarding Moss and Freeman tens of millions would amount to a \u201cdeath sentence\u201d and prove \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for his client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sibley asked jurors to remember Giuliani\u2019s reputation when he served as mayor of New York City and as a federal prosecutor. \u201cRudy Giuliani shouldn\u2019t be defined by what\u2019s happened in recent times,\u201d Mr. Sibley said. \u201cThis is a man who did great things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Gottlieb, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, suggested in his closing argument that Giuliani\u2019s arguments were elitist. \u201cDay after day, Mr. Giuliani reminds you who he is,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cRich famous people have valuable reputations, and ordinary people are irrelevant, replaceable, worthless\u2026 Mr. Giuliani\u2019s defense is his reputation, his comfort, and his goals are more important than those of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. That is a fiction, and it ends today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani Ordered to Pay $148 Million to the Election Workers He Defamed On Friday, a jury&nbsp;unanimously ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million in compensatory and punitive damages to two Georgia election workers he defamed. The judgment furthers the incredible downfall of a guy once known as \u201cAmerica\u2019s mayor\u201d and likely will cement his&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=904\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CRIMINAL JUSTICE_DETAIL_2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":477,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904\/revisions\/916"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}