A federal judge on Friday found Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt of court for continuing to make false claims about two Georgia election workers after being ordered to pay them $148 million in a defamation case, hinting Giuliani could face jail time if he does not stop.
U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington, D.C., on Friday blasted the former New York mayor and Trump attorney for continuing to falsely claim that former Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss manipulated the 2020 vote count in Atlanta. A jury found in December 2023 that he had defamed the women, and he agreed in a consent order with the court in May to stop repeating the claims.
Rudy Giuliani has been held in contempt of court for the second time this week in the case brought by two US election workers he falsely accused of helping to rig the 2020 presidential poll. The f...