Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who briefly served as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has been ordered to give up several valuable personal assets to two election workers from Georgia, nearly a year after a jury ruled he owed them millions of dollars in damages for defaming their character with false claims of election fraud. In December 2023, a federal jury found that Giuliani’s statements unduly put into question the integrity of Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, both of whom worked as election workers during the 2020 presidential election. Giuliani, for example, falsely claimed that the two had entered additional votes for President Joe Biden in the race, handling USB drives “like vials of heroin and cocaine.
” Despite state officials finding no evidence of either woman engaging in fraud (with an investigation determining that the “USB drive” in question was a package of mints), Giuliani pressed on with his errant claims for several months, prompting harassment and death threats from Trump supporters, oftentimes with racist overtones against the two women, who are Black. As a result of their lawsuit against Giuliani, Freeman and Moss were awarded $148 million by the federal jury. Giuliani may not have that amount in assets, but will have to provide as much as he can in his assets to the two , legal experts have noted.
On Tuesday, Judge Lewis Liman of the Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered Giuliani to hand over several .
