‘Today is not the end of the road,’ said mom Ruby Freeman after she and daughter were subjected to racist death threats following Giuliani’s lies about them.
Former mother-daughter Georgia election workers hailed a jury’s decision Friday dunning New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for $148 million for defaming them — but warned there’s still work to be done.
“The lies Rudy Giuliani told about me and my mommy after the 2020 election have changed our lives,” said Shaye Moss. “We’re still working to rebuild.”
“A jury stood witness to what Rudy Giuliani did to me and my daughter and held him accountable,” said Ruby Freeman. “Today is not the end of the road, we still have work to do.”
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found Giuliani civilly liable for defaming Moss and Freeman.
The jury on Friday ordered Giuliani to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $20 million for intentional infliction of emotional distress to each woman. Giuliani was also hit with $75 million in punitive damages.
Earlier this week, Moss and Freeman detailed the chilling threats and harassment they faced as a result of Giuliani calling them “criminals” and “fraudsters,” and using his platform as a major political figure in America to promote a conspiracy theory that they had changed the outcome of the election in Georgia.
“Our greatest wish is that no one, no election worker or voter or school board member or anyone else ever experiences anything like what we went through,” Moss said Friday.
