Rudy Giuliani still defaming election workers even after he was ordered to pay $148M judgment: lawyers
Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani can’t stop defaming two Georgia election workers he already owes a whopping $148 million, their legal team claims in a letter to a federal judge.Attorneys for the election workers who sued Giuliani are now asking that the embattled former mayor of New York City be held in contempt of court — which could lead to even more fines and even jail time.Giuliani is “brazenly violating” an agreement he consented to this year stating he would stop repeating the defamatory claims that the election workers were involved in fraud during the 2020 presidential election, the attorneys said in a letter filed early Wednesday.The letter urges the judge to find Giuliani in contempt of court for statements he made after this year’s elections, which could mean a range of penalties from fines to possible jail time, and cites multiple examples of the disgraced mayor repeating his defamatory comments.“These statements repeat the exact same lies for which Mr.Giuliani has already been held liable, and which he agreed to be bound by court order to stop repeating,” states the letter, written by Michael J.
Gottlieb of Willke Farr & Gallagher.“The Court should hold Mr.Giuliani in civil contempt for violating the clear and unambiguous terms of the Consent Injunction,” Gottlieb’s 14-page motion concludes, “and hold a hearing to determine the appropriate civil contempt sanction to coerce Mr.
Giuliani’s compliance with the Consent Injunction going forward.”That injunction, which Giuliani agreed to and signed in May, held that he would cease publishing statements that the election workers meddled with the 2020 election, or “any of the Actionable Statements adjudged false and defamatory” in their defamation lawsuits, according to the permanent injunction cited in the letter.But that agreement didn’t last long.“It took only six months for Mr.Giuliani to resume his defamatory campaign,” the motion letter reads.During two ...