Former Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani They have agreed to stop accusing former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of election fraud, according to court documents made public Tuesday.
The mother-daughter pair won their defamation case — and a $148 million judgment — against the former Trump attorney and two-time mayor of New York City in December.
Giuliani accused them of election fraud in the aftermath of the 2020 election, saying they stole the election with USB drives that they passed around “like vials of heroin or cocaine.” Moss later testified before Congress that her mother passed her a coin while she was counting ballots.
The fraud claims, they would later say, derailed their lives and Freeman was forced to leave her home because of threats. Last year, Georgian state authorities officially cleared the pair of all claims of wrongdoing.
Giuliani filed for bankruptcy days after the verdict and planned to appeal the verdict; a judge said he could only do that if someone else paid his legal fees.
Earlier this month, Freeman and Moss said in a bankruptcy court filing that Giuliani had continued to defame them in an April livestream on social media, claiming they had evidence that they had counted the ballots twice.
In this week’s agreement, Giuliani also agreed to let the court enforce the judgment and order in the future.
“Today his efforts to profit from lies about these two heroes of American democracy end,” Michael J. Gottlieb, an attorney for Freeman and Moss, said in a statement.
A lawyer for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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