“A federal jury on Friday ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay two former Georgia election workers more than $148 million for destroying their reputations and causing them extreme emotional distress by spreading baseless lies that they had tried to steal a victory from President Donald Trump after the 2020 presidential election,” the New York Times reports.
Wall Street Journal: “The stunning verdict in favor of Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, is the latest humiliation for the former New York City mayor in his remarkable fall from grace. It also marks another instance of those smeared by postelection conspiracy theories clearing their names through civil lawsuits.”
“Giuliani was ordered to pay each woman more than $36 million in compensatory damages and to pay another $75 million in punitive damages. Those figures far exceed amounts his lawyer told jurors earlier in the week ‘would be the end of Mr. Giuliani,’ who earlier said in court filings that he was in financial trouble.”
