Georgia election workers seek more penalties against Giuliani, saying he continues to defame them
Two former election workers in Georgia who won a $148 million defamation judgment in return for Rudy Giuliani asked a judge Wednesday to punish him further as he continues to falsely accuse them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
Attorneys for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, said in a filing in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that Giuliani repeated the allegations against them during two recent broadcasts of his nightly show on the social media platform .women asked the judge to hold Giuliani in contempt and impose sanctions against him.
A lawyer for Giuliani, Joseph M. Cammarata, said Wednesday that he had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment on its specific claims. But he called it an attempt to intimidate the former New York mayor.
“We will not give in,” Cammarata said at a news conference in New York City. He accused Freeman and Moss’s lawyers of “doing everything in their power to break an 80-year-old patriot.”
Giuliani was found liable for defamation and ordered to pay $148 million last year to Freeman and Moss for accusing them of ballot tampering while pushing then-President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of election fraud. The women said they received death threats after Giuliani accused them of sneaking in ballots in suitcases, counting the ballots multiple times and tampering with voting machines.
Attorneys for Freeman and Moss said in the lawsuit Wednesday that Giuliani again referred to them during his recent video broadcasts on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
They said Giuliani said, “They never show me the tapes of them counting the ballots quadruple.” The filing accuses Giuliani of saying his tapes showed Freeman and Moss “passing small hard drives that we claim were used to properly repair the machines and they say were candy.”
Even after the $148 million judgment against him, Freeman and Moss said Giuliani has continued to falsely accuse them. The US District Court in Washington DC has permanently barred him from making statements indicating that the women engaged in misconduct in connection with the 2020 presidential election.