• 7u5k3n@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Okay I don’t want to be cliche… But if they get paid 1/10th of that money I’ll eat my hat*

    • it’s a figure of speech. I’ll not pay up fyi
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    9 months ago

    $16,171,000 to Freeman in compensatory damages for defamation;

    $16,998,000 for Moss in compensatory damages for defamation;

    $20 million each, or $40 million total, in compensatory damages for emotional distress;

    $75 million in punitive damages for both

    Interesting that they determined that he damaged Moss more than Freeman. Maybe one of them got more ugly threats than the other.

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      9 months ago

      Knowing very little of the facts, maybe it’s because Moss is younger and will be missing out on more income, since neither of them can get a job anymore. But that’s just my uneducated guess for the difference.

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        9 months ago

        This is what I’m curious about - assuming he doesn’t pay, by claiming he’s destitute, what other recourse do these people have? Their lives are completely upended, and they absolutely deserve this money.

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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The decision comes at the end of a week-long federal civil trial in Washington D.C., where an eight-person jury heard from the workers — Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman — about how 2020 election conspiracies spread by Giuliani and former President Donald Trump turned their lives upside down.

    Jurors heard numerous violent and racist voicemails the women received, after Giuliani used his massive platform as a campaign attorney for Trump to spread lies about their actions as election workers in Georgia.

    It’s not the only legal trouble for Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and two-term New York City mayor, related to his efforts to subvert Georgia’s 2020 election.

    Freeman broke down crying Wednesday as she described leaving her home after receiving a warning from the FBI that her life could be at risk.

    I hope the federal government hangs you and your daughter from the Capitol dome," said one message Freeman received at the time.

    “Mr. Sibley has a hard job,” said Judge Howell at one point, after it came out that Giuliani had continued to lie about the women while talking to reporters on the courthouse steps earlier in the week.


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