Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani can’t cease defaming two Georgia election employees he already owes a whopping $148 million, their authorized group claims in a letter to a federal decide.
Attorneys for the election employees who sued Giuliani at the moment are asking that the embattled former mayor of New York Metropolis be held in contempt of court docket — which might result in much more fines and even jail time.
Giuliani is “openly violating” an settlement he consented to this 12 months stating he would cease repeating the defamatory claims that the election employees have been concerned in fraud in the course of the 2020 presidential election, the attorneys stated in a letter filed early Wednesday.
The letter urges the decide to search out Giuliani in contempt of court docket for statements he made after this 12 months’s elections, which might imply a spread of penalties from fines to doable jail time, and cites a number of examples of the disgraced mayor repeating his defamatory feedback.
“These statements repeat the very same lies for which Mr. Giuliani has already been held liable, and which he agreed to be certain by court docket order to cease repeating,” states the letter, written by Michael J. Gottlieb of Willke Farr & Gallagher.
“The Court docket ought to maintain Mr. Giuliani in civil contempt for violating the clear and unambiguous phrases of the Consent Injunction,” Gottlieb’s 14-page movement concludes, “and maintain a listening to to find out the suitable civil contempt sanction to coerce Mr. Giuliani’s compliance with the Consent Injunction going ahead.”
That injunction, which Giuliani agreed to and signed in Could, held that he would stop publishing statements that the election employees meddled with the 2020 election, or “any of the Actionable Statements adjudged false and defamatory” of their defamation lawsuits, in line with the everlasting injunction cited within the letter.
However that settlement didn’t final lengthy.
“It took solely six months for Mr. Giuliani to renew his defamatory marketing campaign,” the movement letter reads.
Throughout two stay broadcasts of Giuliani’s internet present, titled “America’s Mayor Dwell,” Giuliani “merely regurgitates the identical actual lies that Giuliani has been spreading for years,” the movement states, citing broadcasts on Nov. 14 and 16.
Giuliani in these broadcasts claimed he has “the tapes that present them quadruple counting the ballots,” and repeatedly made reference to the “little laborious drives” which he falsely claims have been used to “repair the machines,” the letter stated.
“Proper now now they they they [sic] wish to take $145 million for my telling the reality,” Giuliani states on his Nov. 12 livestream. “I’m sorry they’re going to sue me once more for saying it however what am I going to do however inform the reality?”
The attorneys referred to as Giuliani’s statements “unambiguous violations” of the injunction.
The movement additionally cites Giuliani re-sharing a number of social media posts that make the identical defamatory claims in opposition to the employees.
Giuliani was ordered to give up his pricy Manhattan residence, prized memorabilia, jewellery, watches and a 1980 Mercedes-Benz SL coupe to assist fulfill the $148 million judgment in opposition to him.
At a Wednesday press convention — held in entrance of the Midtown regulation workplace representing the Georgia election employees — Giuliani’s new lawyer defended the mayor and decried the defamation judgment.
“The $148 million judgment in opposition to Mayor Rudy Giuliani is astronomical, unconstitutional and unamerican,” stated Staten Island divorce lawyer Joseph Cammarata, who has been representing Giuliani since Friday.
Others on the transient information convention additionally took on the employees.
“In my view, all of us see and noticed what was taking place in the course of the time of no matter Rudy is being accused of,” stated Madeline Brame, the mom of slain NYPD sergeant Hason Correa who has appeared on Giuliani’s webstream and spoke at this 12 months’s Republican Nationwide Conference.
“They need us to not imagine our mendacity eyes,” Brame stated, “however all of us noticed it.”
Noticing Cammarata, she corrected her speech again on its course of praising Giuliani for serving to her and her household.
“I’m not going to go there,” she stated. “I’ve to tread calmly.”
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