Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, departs from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty
UPDATED: 2:00 p.m. ET, Dec. 21, 2023
Originally published April 28, 2021
The consequences of showing blind loyalty to former President Donald Trump continue to reveal themselves in the most amazing of ways.
That is particularly true for Rudy Giuliani, who — after a federal jury ordered him to pay two former election workers nearly $150 million for defaming them over 2020 election lies — has now declared bankruptcy.
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation case.
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 21, 2023
The filing in New York comes days after the more than $148 million judgment for lies about Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss in a failed attempt to rig the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump.
Plainly put: Giuliani just keeps taking Ls.
Giuliani said after the judgment that he had no regrets about the election lies he told, but Thursday’s filing for bankruptcy suggests otherwise.
Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman said in a statement that the bankruptcy filing “should be a surprise to no one.”
“No person could have reasonably believed that Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be able to pay such a high punitive amount,” Goodman said. “Chapter 11 will afford Mayor Giuliani the opportunity and time to pursue an appeal, while providing transparency for his finances under the supervision of the bankruptcy court, to ensure all creditors are treated equally and fairly throughout the process.”
The breakdown of how the $148 million will be disbursed to Freeman and Moss follows below:
The Giuliani jury has awarded Freeman and Moss $148.169 million total in damages.
$16,171,000 for Freeman on defamation
$16,998,000 for Moss on defamation$20,000,000 for Freeman on emotional distress
$20,000,000 for Moss on emotional distress$75,000,000 on punitive@MSNBC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 15, 2023
It’s been a rough go for the lawyer formerly known as “America’s Mayor” who was previously hired to defend Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election and espoused debunked conspiracy theories about non-existent election fraud that helped fuel the anti-government sentiment responsible for the Capitol riots. For example, in addition to menacing Black women election workers, Giuliani made false claims about Democrats rigging the election with malfunctioning voting machines.
Since being named as a part of the Fulton County district attorney’s investigation into election interference, Giuliani has been the recipient of a seemingly neverending string of losses.
Last year, a disciplinary panel recommended Giuliani’s disbarment stemming from his “frivolous” and “destructive” defense of “the big lie” that President Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win the 2020 election.
“[Giuliani] claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it,” the Board on Professional Responsibility, part of the D.C. Bar, wrote in its recommendation. “By prosecuting that destructive case Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right to practice law.”
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives during a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2021, in New York City. | Source: Pool / Getty
Aside from the latest trouble Giuliani has found himself in, separate investigators previously inquired for two years into whether he had any illegal dealings lobbying Ukraine officials in 2019 for information regarding Trump’s adversaries including Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The feds were also looking into whether Giuliani attempted to undermine the former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch.
Prosecutors eventually charged his Ukrainian associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, in 2019.
Yet and still, instances like finally admitting he made false claims about the 2020 election only draw further attention to Giuliani’s steady public fall from grace, much of which was already very apparent to Black communities who were privy to his inner workings after five decades of languishing in the political spotlight.
At the height of his praise, Giuliani was heralded for helping to take down New York City’s mafia bosses in the ’80s and then successfully won his bid for mayor in the 1990s. After the September 11 attacks, Giuliani was considered “America’s Mayor,” only to morph into an obstructer of democracy as one of the main lie-spreaders around Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.
From spreading racist conspiracy theories to upholding harmful policies like stop-and-frisk in New York City, Giuliani is seemingly headed toward a different hall of fame amid desperate and disingenuous attempts at revisionist histories to save him from his continued, spiraling downfall.
Keep reading to see the fine print details of Rudy Giuliani’s ongoing journey of spectacular Ls.
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