What you should know
- A bankruptcy judge ruled that Rudy Giuliani, the once respected former mayor of New York City, can appeal the verdict of $146 million after he was found responsible for defaming two Georgia election workers. This is if you use previously approved donors to pay legal expenses.
- In December, an eight-person jury awarded Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, the multimillion-dollar sentence after Giuliani was found to have defamed them, which the mother-daughter duo said had changed their lives forever and had caused them to be inundated with a torrent of racist and violent threats. Giuliani baselessly accused them of trying to commit fraud in Georgia as part of a multifaceted effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
- Giuliani filed for bankruptcy in New York in December after the federal judge in his case in Washington would order begin paying Georgia election workers. On Tuesday, the bankruptcy judge assigned to Giuliani’s case in New York said the former mayor must seek the judge’s approval before any payment of fees and expenses by a third party. Those fees cannot come from Giuliani’s existing assets, the judge said.
NEW YORK — A bankruptcy judge ruled that Rudy Giuliani, the once respected former mayor of New York City, can appeal the verdict of $146 million after he was found responsible for defaming two Georgia election workers. This is if you use previously approved donors to pay legal expenses.
In December, an eight-person jury awarded Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, the multimillion-dollar sentence after Giuliani was found to have defamed them, which the mother-daughter duo said had changed their lives forever and had caused them to be inundated with a torrent of racist and violent threats. Giuliani baselessly accused them of trying to commit fraud in Georgia as part of a multifaceted effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Giuliani filed for bankruptcy in New York in December after the federal judge in his case in Washington would order start paying Georgia election workers. On Tuesday, the bankruptcy judge assigned to Giuliani’s case in New York said the former mayor must seek the judge’s approval before any payment of fees and expenses by a third party. Those fees cannot come from Giuliani’s existing assets, the judge said.
“All fees and expenses incurred by the Debtor and his counsel in the Freeman Litigation in connection with any Post-Trial Filing and Notice of Appeal will not be paid by the Debtor or his estate, nor will they give rise to a claim against them,” wrote US Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane.
In a court file Last week, Freeman and Moss noted that Giuliani’s son was president of the Giuliani Defense, a legal defense fund, and said it was “essential to gain clarity on how the Legal Defense Funds themselves were funded.” On Monday, Giuliani declared that he had not directly or indirectly donated any money to any of his legal defense funds.
Last week, in the Trump fraud case, a judge fined Trump with more than $350 million, increasing to more than $450 million with interest, after finding that Trump and his executives had a “complete lack of repentance and remorse.”
The article was originally written in English for NBC news. To read it, view the page here.
2024-02-20 22:12:27
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