Former Trump lawyer Giuliani receives a fine of 135.54 million euros

The verdict was announced on Friday, according to US media, after two election workers sued Giuliani over a video in which he falsely accused them of voter fraud after the November 2020 presidential election.

Giuliani must therefore pay both plaintiffs almost $37 million each for defamation and its psychological consequences for the women, as well as $75 million in damages. In an initial reaction, the Republican described the punishment as “absurd.” “I will definitely appeal,” the lawyer announced.

The responsible US federal judge had already found Giuliani guilty in August of defaming 64-year-old Ruby Freeman and her 39-year-old daughter Wandrea Moss. The two women received national attention last year when they testified before the congressional committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. “I don’t want to go anywhere anymore. I question everything,” Moss said at the time. People threatened her and wished her death. The two black women accused Giuliani of saying his claims had destroyed their reputations and led to numerous threats, including racist ones, against them.

After Trump’s election defeat against Democrat Joe Biden in November 2020, Giuliani was a central figure in the elected incumbent’s attempts to overturn the outcome of the election with the help of baseless allegations of fraud and thus stay in office. As part of this campaign, he also published the video with the false allegations against the two women shortly after the election.

Giuliani now has a number of legal problems. He was charged with Trump in a criminal case in Atlanta on allegations of election manipulation.

The 79-year-old was once highly respected as mayor of New York; after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was celebrated as “America’s mayor.” Giuliani, who was born in New York’s Brookyln district in 1944 as the son of Italian immigrants, later became Trump’s loyal companion.

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