Bankruptcy Judge Rudy Giuliani has given the green light to seek a new trial to challenge a $148 million defamation judgment won by two Georgia election workers after Rudy was attacked by an Obama judge and was unable to present any evidence at trial.
Last month, Rudy Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection one day after Obama-appointed judge Beryl Howell ordered the immediate enforcement of a $148 million judgment against him by Georgia election workers Robbie Freeman and Wandrea “Shay” Moss. .
Judge Beryl Howell
According to Bloomberg, Giuliani listed $500 million in debt and between $1 million and $10 million in assets.
The bankruptcy filing put the lawsuit on hold, and now a judge is allowing Giuliani to seek a new trial to challenge the scandalous $148 million judgment.
“He is currently suspended from practicing law, so he cannot earn an income at this time as an attorney,” Giuliani's attorney, Gary Fischhoff, said. “There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and the debtor will provide full disclosure.”
Excerpt from Reuters:
US Bankruptcy Judge Rudy Giuliani on Friday gave limited permission to appeal a $148 million defamation judgment won by two former Georgia election workers who falsely accused them of fraud after former Republican President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
US Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane said at a court hearing in White Plains, New York, that he would allow Giuliani to seek a new trial to challenge the amount of damages awarded to Wandrea “Shay” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, but that he would not pursue the matter. Full resume. But first, Lane said, Giuliani will have to provide more information about who is paying his legal bills.
Gary Fischoff, an attorney for Trump's former lawyer, told Lynn that Giuliani cannot afford to pay the $148 million judgment, not to mention that he has nothing left to pay others who have sued him.
Giuliani told the bankruptcy court that third-party legal defense funds are footing the bill for the cases he faces related to his 2020 election claims, and that they have already paid $847,000 to cover his defenses. Fischkoff said Giuliani intends to provide more information about his funding sources next week.
The defamation suit was related to Giuliani's statements about two Georgia election workers seen on surveillance video from the State Farm Arena tabulation center on election night in 2020.
Video played at a Georgia Senate hearing in December 2020 allegedly showed election workers scanning ballots without an independent state observer present.
Judge Beryl Howell ex parte decided that Rudy Giuliani was guilty of defamation after he was late in filing a financial statement in the law war case.
A D.C. jury decided last month that Giuliani must pay the two plaintiffs $148 million in a D.C. courtroom.
Rudy Giuliani was not allowed to present any evidence in his favor in the court proceedings.
Freeman and Moss then asked the judge to “allow immediate enforcement” of the ruling, fearing that the former New York City mayor would “try to find a way to dissipate the ruling.” [his] assets before plaintiffs can recover them.” – ABC News reported.
“Judge Beryl Howell agreed on Wednesday that Giuliani’s record as an ‘unwilling and uncooperative litigator’ provides plaintiffs with ‘good reason to believe he will seek to dissipate or hide his assets’ before he pays them,” the newspaper reported last month.
Robbie Freeman and Wandrea “Shay” Moss sued Rudy Giuliani again on Monday seeking to “permanently bar” him from making public statements about them regarding their participation in the vote count in the 2020 presidential election.
The two women asked the court to bar Giuliani from “making or publishing…further statements repeating any and all false allegations that plaintiffs engaged in election fraud, illegal activity, or misconduct of any kind during or in connection with the 2020 presidential election,” the network reported. ABC News.
Judge Beryl Howell determined that Giuliani was liable for defaming Robbie Freeman and Shay Moss because he did not turn over electronic devices that the FBI seized from him.
Because of the default ruling, Rudy Giuliani was unable to present any evidence, including State Farm Arena surveillance video, to support his claims.
