Two former Georgia election workers who won a 148 million-dollar (£117 million) defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a judge on Wednesday to penalise him even further, saying he continues to falsely accuse them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, said in a filing in US District Court in Washington, DC, that Mr Giuliani repeated the allegations against them on two recent broadcasts of his nightly show on the social media platform X.
The women asked the judge to hold Mr Giuliani in contempt and impose sanctions against him.
A lawyer for Mr Giuliani, Joseph M Cammarata, said on Wednesday that he had not seen the court filing and could not respond to its specific claims. But he called it an effort to intimidate the former New York City mayor.
“We will not relent,” Mr Cammarata said at a news conference in New York City. He accused lawyers for Ms Freeman and Ms Moss of “doing everything in their power to break an 80-year-old patriot”.
Mr Giuliani was found liable for defamation and ordered to pay 148 million dollars last year to Ms Freeman and Ms Moss for accusing them of ballot tampering as he pushed then-president Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud.
The women said they faced death threats after Mr Giuliani accused them of sneaking in ballots in suitcases, counting ballots multiple times and tampering with voting machines.
Lawyers for Ms Freeman and Ms Moss said in Wednesday’s court filing that Mr Giuliani referred to them again on his recent video broadcasts on X, formerly Twitter.
They said Mr Giuliani said “they never let me show the tapes that show them quadruple counting the ballots”.
The filing accuses Mr Giuliani of saying his tapes showed Ms Freeman and Ms Moss “passing these little little hard drives that we maintain were used to fix the machines right and they say it was candy”.
Even after the 148 million-dollar judgment against him, Ms Freeman and Ms Moss said Mr Giuliani has continued to falsely accuse them.
The US District Court in Washington, DC has permanently barred him from making any statements that suggest the women engaged in any wrongdoing in connection with the 2020 presidential election.
In a statement, Mr Giuliani’s spokesman, Ted Goodman, called the new legal filing an attempt to “deprive Mayor Rudy Giuliani of his First Amendment right to freedom of speech”.
