Giuliani Denies Jan 6 Groping Allegations, Says He Would Never Do That… In Front Of So Many People https://dailyboulder.com/giuliani-d...uld-never-do-that-in-front-of-so-many-people/
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/22/politics/giuliani-defamation-lawsuit-sanctions/index.html Giuliani now owes over $230,000 after defaming two Georgia election workers By Katelyn Polantz, Senior Reporter, Crime and Justice Updated 3:30 PM EDT, Fri September 22, 2023 Rudy Giuliani has failed to pay more than $132,000 in sanctions he faces for failing to respond to parts of a lawsuit from two Georgia election workers, according to a court filing. In addition, US District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered the former New York mayor to pay an additional $104,000 to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, a mother and daughter he defamed, for additional legal fees they’ve incurred because of his failure to respond to parts of their lawsuit. This is the latest difficulty for Giuliani as he faces fallout from his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election. Giuliani has struggled to pay legal bills in recent months, including related to the lawsuit from Freeman and Moss. The bill of $132,856 is only a small chunk of the financial burden Giuliani is currently under, largely because of his ongoing legal troubles, and it’s one he’s known of for several weeks. But a court filing on Thursday confirmed Giuliani has not paid the amount to Moss and Freeman, which a judge ordered to offset some of their attorneys’ fees. “As of the date of this filing, Defendant Giuliani has failed to take any of the actions, or to cause the Giuliani Businesses to take any of the actions, so-ordered in the Sanctions Order,” Moss and Freeman’s lawyers wrote on Thursday, according to the filing. “Plaintiffs are considering what further relief may be appropriate.” Giuliani’s failure to respond to subpoenas for records in Moss and Freeman’s lawsuit led to the sanctioned amount, which is now accruing interest as he continues to not pay. Yet it isn’t the end of the bills for Giuliani in the case. He will face a damages trial in the case before a jury in December. Just days ago, he also faced a new lawsuit from his former attorney for $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees, and other lawsuits against him are ongoing. Giuliani lost the defamation lawsuit in August from the two Georgia election workers against him after he failed to provide information sought in subpoenas. In court in recent weeks, Giuliani said he could no longer contest that he made false and defamatory statements about Freeman and Moss. The two are asking for unspecified damages after they say they suffered emotional and reputational harm, as well as having their safety put in danger, after Giuliani singled them out when he made false claims of ballot tampering in Georgia after the 2020 election. Giuliani’s statements about them, which Freeman and Moss say are false, included calling them ballot-stuffing criminal conspirators. Giuliani also drew attention to a video of them after the election, which was first posted by the Trump campaign and showed part of a security tape of ballot counting in Atlanta. On social media, his podcast and other broadcasts, Giuliani said the video showed suitcases filled with ballots, when it did not capture anything but normal ballot processing, according to the defamation lawsuit and a state investigation. Georgia election officials have debunked Giuliani’s accusations of fraud during the ballot counting.
My daughter's friend just said that she thinks Trump is trying to drive as many of his minions to suicide as possible, at least Ghooly, as it will bring him sympathy. Maybe.
LOL Giuliani: ‘I have never had an alcohol problem’ Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani vehemently denied having a drinking problem Wednesday, following the Times report. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/04/rudy-giuliani-drinking-00119923
Looks like Rudy is drunk off his ass again... and creating questionable lawsuits short on facts. He goes on quite the bender. SLAPP: Rudy Giuliani suing President Biden for defamation https://washingtonpress.com/2023/10/04/slapp-rudy-giuliani-suing-president-biden-for-defamation/ A new lawsuit brought by the former attorney of the former president is long on bitterness and spite — and short on factual allegations. Rudy Giuliani is suing President Joe Biden for defamation, alleging that as a candidate, Biden smeared him unfairly and harmed his reputation and that Biden has profited from the alleged lies he told about Giuliani. It sounds salacious and significant — until one digs up that the only statements Giuliani is complaining about are when Biden indicated that he was repeating Russian disinformation. He cites a few specific statements, centering broadly around the narrative Giuliani, Trump, and other allies tried to create regarding Ukraine and Biden ahead of the 2020 election. These include Biden saying that Giuliani was “being used as a Russian pawn,” that he was “being fed information that is Russian that is not true,” and that intelligence agents had signed a document agreeing that “what [Giuliani] is accusing [Biden] of is a Russian plant.” The lawsuit doesn’t appear to have much merit — for example, the statement that intelligence agents had signed a document agreeing that the Hunter Biden laptop story reeked of Russian disinformation is essentially a statement of fact. The statements that Giuliani is being “used as a Russian pawn” or “being fed information” are less allegations against Giuliani than against the folks allegedly misinforming him and directing his behavior. Nonetheless, however, if this lawsuit made it to a courtroom, the obvious defense would be that Biden could support the belief that the statements were factual. Supporting that, in 2020 — with Donald Trump still in office — the U.S. Treasury noted that it was holding accountable several individuals for disseminating Russian disinformation in regard to the election. These individuals included Andrii Derkach, who held a meeting with Giuliani in December 2019, helping him seek kompromat on Biden. He even joined Giuliani on right-wing media, where it was reported that he piled Giuliani down with “hundreds of pages” of documents surrounding the Burisma allegations. When this surfaced, Giuliani acknowledged the contact but denied knowing Derkach was a Russian agent. ABC reported: “Giuliani said in a statement to the New York Times, and confirmed by ABC News, that he had ‘no reason to believe [Derkach] is a Russian agent. There is nothing I saw that said he was a Russian agent. There is nothing he gave me that seemed to come from Russia at all.'” That seems pretty in line with “being fed” disinformation or being “used as a pawn.” What’s the purpose of this lawsuit, if Giuliani is as broke as he’s claimed, and the case appears to have very little chance of success? Typically, a lawsuit intended to heap difficulty on the defendant, or silence him, without any real legal merit, is called a SLAPP suit — standing for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. As it happens, Lev Parnas — a former associate of Giuliani who went to prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes and was involved in helping seek out dirt on Biden, but has since separated himself from the former president and his attorney — suggests the former mayor’s financial status may be relevant here. Responding to the lawsuit on Twitter, he opined: After spreading lies and going on a disinformation campaign about Joe Biden for years! Today Rudy Giuliani filed a defamation lawsuit against Joe Biden. Rudy doesn’t have money for lawyers to defend him in his RICO case but has money to fund this lawsuit? Where is the money coming from? In fact, Giuliani has been reportedly begging Trump to help him fund his own legal defense, a situation that’s becoming (like Trump’s own) more dire, as co-defendants in the Georgia RICO case begin taking plea deals — and no one has more motivation to SLAPP down Biden’s public speech than Trump. Here’s Giuliani announcing the lawsuit at a New Hampshire press conference: And here’s the actual lawsuit itself: (Document inline at above url)