WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As Donald Trump faces criminal cases in Georgia and Washington stemming from his attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden, many of his allies have also faced legal repercussions for participating in that effort.
Here is a summary of the criminal charges, lawsuits and other legal woes that some of them face:
RUDY GIULIANI
The former New York mayor led efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss through unsuccessful lawsuits and a wide-ranging effort to produce fake slates of electors in battleground states.
He has been ordered by a jury to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers who faced a deluge of threats after he falsely claimed they were engaged in fraud. Giuliani has repeated those claims following the verdict, even though he has admitted in court that they were defamatory, prompting the two workers to file a second lawsuit.
He filed for bankruptcy following that claim, listing up to $500 million in liabilities, but that might not enable him to shed that obligation. Judges have ruled that defamation claims can’t be discharged by bankruptcy if the debtor engaged in “willful and malicious” conduct.
Giuliani has also pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of election subversion in Georgia, along with Trump and more than a dozen other co-defendants.
He faces a defamation lawsuit from two voting machine makers, Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, for claiming that they flipped votes from Trump to Biden.
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