Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, two former Georgia election workers, sued Rudy Giuliani again on Monday, December 18. They won a nearly $150 million defamation case against Giuliani last week for false claims. The lawyer made these allegations about them while defending Donald Trump after the 2020 election.
If Giuliani is granted a permanent injunction, he will be barred from speaking publicly about Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, in the future.
The current action, which comes as Giuliani is still dealing with financial and legal issues, is the latest in a series of legal issues the former New York mayor is dealing with as a result of his legal work for Donald Trump following the 2020 election.
Rudy Giuliani continues to spread the very same lies for which he has already been held liable: Lawyers
He is also scheduled to stand trial in Georgia, where he has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges related to his work for Trump.
In a 134-page complaint filed on Monday, December 18, the lawyers for the two women claimed that Rudy Giuliani “continues to spread the very same lies for which he has already been held liable,” referring to comments he made last week outside of court to Terry Moran of ABC News that he believed Freeman and Moss were “changing votes.”
In the most recent federal case, an injunction is sought to “permanently bar” Rudy Giuliani from making any further defamatory remarks about Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the mother and daughter. Giuliani is accused of falsely accusing the two of election fraud, illegal activity, and other wrongdoing.
CNN reported that, according to a recent lawsuit, “Defendant Giuliani continues to spread the very same lies for which he has already been held liable. Defendant Giuliani’s statements, coupled with his refusal to agree to refrain from continuing to make such statements, make clear that he intends to persist in his campaign of targeted defamation and harassment. It must stop.”
According to the lawsuit, Rudy Giuliani, who also worked for Donald Trump, stated in interviews conducted in the days following the damages awards that he was truthful about their influence on the outcomes of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election. The suit also claims that Giuliani has stated that he will not stop fabricating stories about them even after the verdict.
Giuliani told the TV cameras outside the court that “everything I said about them is true”
According to CNBC, the former mayor of New York City, according to the same lawsuit filed by Moss and Freeman, “has engaged in, and is engaging in, a continuing course of repetitive false speech and harassment—specifically, repeating over and over the same lies that Plaintiffs engaged in election fraud during their service as election workers during the 2020 presidential election.”
Last week, after their defamation trial, Giuliani told the TV cameras outside the court that “everything I said about them is true” and that he had evidence for the public to “stay tuned.” Giuliani did not testify and provided only a sketchy defense in the case.
According to The Guardian, Rudy Giuliani also told the media on Friday, December 15, following the jury’s decision, that he had “no doubt” his remarks about Moss and Freeman were “supportable.”
Furthermore, in a separate court filing related to their initial defamation case, Freeman and Moss’ lawyers asked the federal judge to allow immediate enforcement of the $148 million judgment, fearing that Giuliani would try to disperse his assets before plaintiffs could recover. They also warned the judge that there was a good chance Giuliani would try to avoid paying the women.