FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - A federal judge has issued a default judgment against Rudy Giuliani in a defamation lawsuit filed by two Fulton County election workers and ordered him to pay more than $130,000 in attorney fees.
In a decision Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell sanctioned the former New York mayor and Trump ally for failing to fulfill his obligation to provide evidence to the attorneys of election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss.
In her decision, Howell called Giuliani's actions the "willful shirking of his discovery obligations" by not providing information, saying he "has given only lip service to compliance with his discovery obligations and this Court’s orders by failing to take reasonable steps."
"The bottom line is that Giuliani has refused to comply with his discovery obligations and thwarted plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Wandrea’ ArShaye Moss’s procedural rights to obtain any meaningful discovery in this case," Howell said.
Howell ruled that Guiliani has now been to reimburse over $43,000 in fees and costs associated with Freeman and Moss' motion in court to receive information from Giuliani's businesses. The two had already won nearly $90,000 in attorney court fees for a previous motion.
Freeman and Moss' lawsuit, which was filed in December 2021, accused Giuliani of defaming them by falsely stating that they had engaged in fraud while counting ballots at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
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