![]() Giuliani is still facing defamation lawsuits filed by voting software companies Dominion Voting Systems Inc. In June, US District Judge Beryl Howell ordered Giuliani to cover what it cost for Freeman and Moss’s lawyers to successfully petition the court to force him to produce documents. The litigation since has been mired in the fight over evidence. Giuliani lost a motion to have the case tossed out late last year. The terms are confidential, but OAN aired a report around that time stating Georgia officials had concluded that the two women didn’t engage in fraud. Freeman and Moss withdrew their claims against the network after reaching a settlement in May 2022. The case, filed in federal court in Washington in December 2021, originally named the conservative One America News Network and several network hosts as defendants along with Giuliani. They alleged that he repeatedly published defamatory statements about them on multiple platforms, even after they filed the lawsuit. Read More: Giuliani Records Row in Election Suit a ‘Murky Mess,’ Judge Saysįreeman and Moss’s attorneys highlighted a written strategy challenging election results that was attributed to Giuliani and identified the women by name. But in the months after the election, the women said that they received a torrent of threats and harassment. Freeman and Moss were formally cleared of any wrongdoing in a report issued in June. State officials repeatedly disputed the fraud claims. Lawyers for Freeman and Moss did not immediately return a request for comment.įreeman and Moss alleged Giuliani, who helped direct former President Donald Trump’s post-election legal strategy, orchestrated a “defamatory campaign” falsely accusing them of committing election fraud to secure Joe Biden’s win in Georgia. ![]() Read More: Georgia Poll Workers Seek Sanctions Against Giuliani in Suit (1) Giuliani has continued to dispute that he violated evidence rules, but said he was conceding the facts of the case to resolve that issue. The filing came in response to a request by Freeman and Moss for a federal judge in Washington to order “severe” sanctions against Giuliani for failing to comply with obligations to preserve and turn over electronic evidence in the case. ![]() ![]() Michael Gottlieb, a lead attorney for Freeman and Moss, said in a statement that Giuliani’s filing “concedes what we have always known to be true - Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss honorably performed their civic duties in the 2020 presidential election in full compliance with the law and the allegations of election fraud he and former President Trump made against them have been false since day one.” Signaling fights ahead, Giuliani political adviser and spokesperson Ted Goodman said in a statement that Giuliani “did not acknowledge that the statements were false” but would no longer contest the claims “in order to move on to the portion of the case that will permit a motion to dismiss.” He wrote that he was making the concession “solely for the purposes of this litigation.” But it has limits - he states that although he’ll no longer contest claims brought by Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, he may still fight paying damages and could still argue the statements were constitutionally protected speech. ![]() Giuliani’s concession, which came in a court filing shortly before midnight on Tuesday, marks a significant milestone in a case that the former New York City mayor has fought for more than a year. (Bloomberg) - Rudy Giuliani will concede that he made false and defamatory statements about two Georgia election workers who are suing him after becoming the targets of baseless conspiracy theories following the 2020 presidential campaign. ![]()
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