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Rudy Giuliani

In August, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found Giuliani liable for several of the women’s claims of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy. The jury trial that begins Monday will determine the damages to be awarded to the women, who are seeking between $15.5 million and $43 million.

Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss (L), former Georgia election worker, is comforted by her mother Ruby Freeman (R) as Moss testifies during the fourth hearing on the January 6th investigation in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden.

Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was one of Trump’s most visible lawyers and spent months hosting press conferences and appearing on television and in courtrooms to contest the results of the 2020 election.

Shaye Moss, a Fulton County, Ga., elections worker, is comforted by her mother, Ruby Freeman, while testifying during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol fourth hearing to present previously unseen material and hear witness testimony in Cannon Building, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Their family received threats after being falsely accused of tampering with ballots.

Moss, who served as an election worker for more than 10 years, would detail the threats she received in the wake of the video during testimony before theJan. 6 House Select committeein 2022.

“A lot of threats, wishing death upon me, telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother and saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’ A lot of them were racist, a lot of them were hateful,” she said.

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Freeman, who is Moss' mother, went on to say that the threats she and her daughter received because of Giuliani’s claims had caused her to live in fear since the election, saying: “I’ve lost my name, I’ve lost my reputation, I’ve lost my sense of security, all because a group of people, starting with 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani, deciding to scapegoat me and my daughter, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.”

Rudy Giuliani holds a news conference after the 2020 presidential election in which he and other lawyers share their plan for challenging Joe Biden’s victory.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty

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In adocument filed in July in Washington, D.C., the former New York City mayor said he no longer contested the accusations from Freeman and Moss.

From that filing: “Defendant Giuliani concedes solely for the purposes of this litigation … that [he] made the statements of and concerning plaintiffs. He does not dispute for the purposes of this litigation, that the statements carry meaning that is defamatory per se.”

In August, the federal judge in the case awarded a default judgment to Freeman and Moss.

In that case, Giuliani wascharged with 13 counts, including racketeering and false statements and writings.

source: people.com