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Friday, August 29, 2025

Rudy Giuliani's Legal Troubles Just Got Worse - Newsweek

Rudy Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss are suing Rudy Giuliani once again, accusing him of repeating the false statements about them that led to him being found liable for defamation.

Freeman and her daughter Moss served as poll workers during the 2020 election in Georgia, later becoming wrapped up in former President Donald Trump's false claims of widespread election fraud. The pair were put at the center of a conspiracy that wrongly accused them of engaging in fraud, claims which were later repeated by Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who worked as a lawyer for Trump during his efforts to contest the election results.

Citing an inundation of threats and unwanted attention resulting from his comments, Freeman and Moss brought a civil defamation lawsuit against Giuliani, with a judge ultimately ruling that he was liable for damages to the mother-daughter pair. On Friday, a Washington, D.C., jury ordered the former mayor to pay the women $148 million in damages: between $16 and $17 million each to Freeman and Moss in compensatory damages, $20 million each for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, and a further $75 million in punitive damages.

On Monday, Freeman and Moss filed a new complaint against Giuliani after he continued to repeat the false claims about them in public, including during an appearance on the conservative news station, Newsmax. The filing asks that a court issue "injunctive relief to permanently bar Giuliani from persisting in......



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