Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and former personal lawyer to Republican Donald Trump, has reached a settlement with two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of being involved in rigging the 2020 election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden, according to court documents filed Thursday.
The settlement came on the same day that a non-jury civil trial before Judge Lewis Liman was set to begin in Manhattan federal court over whether election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss could take Rudy Giuliani's Palm Beach, Florida, home. Mr. Giuliani has been fined twice for contempt of court over his treatment of two election workers.
He has already given Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss his Manhattan apartment, a 1980 Mercedes-Benz and other assets to help settle a court order to pay them $148 million in damages for the harm his defamation has caused them.
But Mr. Giuliani claims he should have been allowed to keep his Palm Beach home because it is now his permanent residence, a matter the judge would have to decide in today's trial.
Giuliani also said he could not fulfill Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss' requests for three New York Yankees championship rings because he had given them as gifts to his son Andrew. Judge Liman would decide what would happen to the house and rings after the trial in the same district, where Giuliani served as the top federal prosecutor from 1983 to 1989.
Rudy Giuliani was highly praised for his response as mayor to the September 11, 2001 attacks, but his reputation has since been severely damaged./ VOA (A2 Televizion)
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