Katie Couric Instagram – A jury awarded $148 million in damages on Friday to two former Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation over lies he spread about them in 2020.
Per @nytimes reporting,the jury awarded Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss a combined $75 million in punitive damages. It also ordered Mr. Giuliani to pay compensatory damages of $16.2 million to Ms. Freeman and $16.9 million to Ms. Moss, as well as $20 million to each of them for emotional suffering.
Over hours of emotional testimony, Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss described how their lives had been completely upended after Dec. 3, 2020, when Mr. Giuliani first suggested that they had engaged in election fraud to tilt the result against Mr. Trump in Georgia, a critical swing state.
The women, who are Black and are mother and daughter, were soon flooded with expletive-laden phone calls and messages, threats and racist attacks, they testified. People said they should be hanged for treason or lynched; others told them they fantasized about hearing the sound of their necks snapping.
Mr. Giuliani did not testify at the trial. His lawyer, Joseph Sibley IV, told the jury that his client, the former New York mayor and federal prosecutor, should not be held responsible for abuse directed to Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss by others. | Posted on 16/Dec/2023 03:16:34



