Tag: Giuliani, Rudolph W

On Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll and the Limits of Libel Law

In the days since a New York jury ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to the libel plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, the question has been whether the dollar amount was high enough to put a stop to his lies. That we must ask this question tells us something important about the moment […]

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How Hillsdale Got Mixed Up in the 2020 Election Plot

“It’s simply a matter of mathematics,” Northon said on a different episode of Gruber’s podcast, in late November. “We’ve got a Ph.D., Dr. Zhang, Jennie Zhang from Hillsdale College, who just did the math. And when you do the math, it shows not just a handful of improper votes, or a handful of illegal votes, […]

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The Best, Worst and Weirdest Political Stories of 2023

It has been such a special political year, brimming with extraordinary, even historic moments. From an ex-president indicted to a Senate staffer busted for making porn at work, each fresh development made you proud to be an American. Singling out the exceptional events and players was tougher than ever. I mean, when Marjorie Taylor Greene […]

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How Two Election Workers Bankrupted Rudy Giuliani

No sooner did a jury deliver a nearly $150 million defamation judgment against the former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani than he went out and again started smearing the two Georgia election workers at the center of the case. Within days, he filed for bankruptcy, shielding himself in the near term from having to […]

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Judge Orders Giuliani to Pay $148 Million Damage Award Immediately

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to immediately pay the $148 million he owes to two former Georgia election workers for falsely accusing them of manipulating ballots after the 2020 election, citing concerns that he might “conceal his assets” if he were allowed to wait. The decision by the judge, Beryl A. […]

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Giuliani’s Money Woes Were a Focus of Ukraine Inquiry, Records Reveal

Before Rudolph W. Giuliani was ordered to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers he defamed, and before he owed his own lawyers several million dollars more, federal prosecutors were scrutinizing whether he pursued dubious business dealings in Ukraine to shore up his dwindling fortune, according to court records unsealed late Tuesday. The documents […]

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Giuliani Was Ordered to Pay $148 Million. What Happens Now?

A federal jury in Washington ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani last week to pay $148 million in damages to two former Georgia election workers he defamed by spreading baseless claims that they tried to steal votes from Donald J. Trump on Nov. 3, 2020. Mr. Giuliani, who faces a litany of legal and financial troubles, has […]

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Rudy Giuliani’s $148 Million Treachery

On Dec. 13, an election worker named Ruby Freeman took the stand in a Georgia courtroom and told the story of how her world was turned upside down by Rudy Giuliani. Three Decembers earlier, Giuliani shared a routine surveillance video of Ms. Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, doing the routine yet vital work of […]

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Giuliani Ordered to Pay $148 Million to Election Workers in Defamation Trial

A federal jury on Friday ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay two former Georgia election workers more than $148 million for destroying their reputations and causing them extreme emotional distress by spreading baseless lies that they had tried to steal a victory from President Donald J. Trump after the 2020 presidential election. The award came […]

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Election Worker Tells Jury: ‘Giuliani Just Messed Me Up’

Ruby Freeman, a former Georgia election worker, sat in a federal courtroom on Wednesday and told a jury: “Giuliani just messed me up, you know.” She was referring to Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was sitting a few feet from her, as she described how her life has been upended since Dec. 3, 2020. That was […]

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Election Worker Defamed by Giuliani Recounts Emotional Impact

On Dec. 4, 2020, Shaye Moss, at the time an election worker in Fulton County, Ga., was summoned to her supervisor’s office, where she thought she would be getting a promotion for her hard work on Election Day, after a month of positive feedback. Instead, Ms. Moss was shown videos filled with “lies” and unfounded […]

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Rudy Giuliani Could Face $43 Million in Damages in Defamation Trial

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s lawyer told jurors on Monday that the tens of millions of dollars in damages two Georgia election workers are seeking from him in a defamation suit “will be the end of Mr. Giuliani,” likening an award of that scale to a civil death penalty. The lawyer, Joseph Sibley IV, made the assertion […]

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Giuliani to Go on Trial for Damages in Defamation Case

There will be no good news — only shades of bad — for Rudolph W. Giuliani when he appears in court on Monday for a trial to determine how much he will have to pay two Georgia election workers he lied about after the 2020 presidential race. Nearly two years ago, the election workers, Ruby […]

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Jenna Ellis Could Become a Star Witness Against Trump

When Jenna Ellis last week became the most recent lawyer to join in an accelerating series of guilty pleas in the Fulton County, Ga., prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators, she offered a powerful repudiation of the “Big Lie” that could potentially cut the legs out from under Donald Trump’s defense, make her a […]

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Jenna Ellis Had Close Trump Ties Before Flipping in Georgia Election Case

A few days before the 2020 election was slated to be certified by Congress, the lawyer Jenna Ellis sent President Donald J. Trump a memo suggesting a way he could stay in power by upending the normal course of American democracy. In the memo, Ms. Ellis, who had little experience in constitutional law, offered Mr. […]

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Defendants in Trump Georgia Case Seek Donations for Big Legal Fees

Steven C. Lee, an Illinois pastor charged in the Georgia election interference case against Donald J. Trump and his allies, is hoping to fund his legal defense, at least in part, with sales of “MAGA honey” bottles shaped like the former president. A higher-profile defendant, Rudolph W. Giuliani, turned to a high-dollar fund-raiser at Mr. […]

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Prosecutors Ask if Trump Will Blame His Lawyers as Defense in Election Case

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to force former President Donald J. Trump to tell them months before he goes to trial on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election whether he intends to defend himself by blaming the stable of lawyers around him around at the time for giving him poor legal […]

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Giuliani’s Drinking Has Trump Prosecutors’ Attention in Federal Election Case

Rudolph W. Giuliani had always been hard to miss at the Grand Havana Room, a magnet for well-wishers and hangers-on at the Midtown cigar club that still treated him like the king of New York. In recent years, many close to him feared, he was becoming even harder to miss. For more than a decade, […]

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Trump Will Not Seek to Move Georgia Election Case to Federal Court

Former President Donald J. Trump will not seek to move the criminal racketeering case against him in Atlanta to federal court, according to a legal filing from his lawyer on Thursday. Mr. Trump was indicted by a grand jury in August, along with 18 of his advisers and allies, after a two-and-a-half year investigation into […]

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Trump’s Legal Defense Effort Comes Under Financial Strain

The call came out of the blue. A lawyer representing former President Donald J. Trump in the investigation into his handling of classified documents reached out, unsolicited, to a former employee of Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate who was about to face questioning. “It’s my understanding that you got a grand jury subpoena,” the lawyer, John […]

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Hunter Biden Sues Giuliani for Spreading Information From Laptop

Hunter Biden sued Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mr. Giuliani’s former lawyer on Tuesday for their roles in disseminating personal information about Mr. Biden said to have been taken from a laptop he left at a Delaware repair shop before the 2020 election. The suit is the latest move by Mr. Biden, the president’s son, to […]

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Ronna McDaniel Gets the Trump Treatment 

Donald Trump claims to be the best, most or first in countless laughable ways, but there’s one endeavor at which he really is peerless: Nobody dishes out humiliation in such heaping, merciless measures. Just ask Ronna McDaniel. She’s the one feasting miserably on it now. The chair of the Republican National Committee, McDaniel is responsible […]

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Giuliani Sued Over Unpaid Legal Fees by Lawyer Who Led His Defense

Rudolph W. Giuliani, already under criminal indictment and at risk of losing his law license for his effort to keep Donald J. Trump in office after the 2020 election, is now being sued by his own lawyer. The lawyer, Robert J. Costello, who had been leading Mr. Giuliani’s defense against an onslaught of legal woes, […]

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Kevin McCarthy, Humiliated Once Again

In Entertainment Weekly, Maureen Lee Lenker reviewed the new movie “Saltburn,” a tale of sexual obsession set among Britain’s upper crust: “If you did a line of coke off a copy of ‘Brideshead Revisited,’ you might approximate the ‘Saltburn’ viewing experience.” (Jack Keegan, Oxford, Ohio) In The Times, Charles Blow questioned many of Trump’s political […]

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Howard Safir, N.Y.P.D. Commissioner Under Giuliani, Is Dead at 81

Howard Safir, who presided over declining rates of violent crime as New York City’s police commissioner in the late 1990s, but who struck many New Yorkers as tone-deaf to racial sensibilities after the shooting deaths of Black men by his officers, died on Monday in Annapolis, Md. He was 81. His son, Adam, said his […]

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Latest on Trump Georgia Case: Report to Be Released

A judge in Georgia is expected on Friday to release the final report of a special grand jury that spent much of last year investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies criminally interfered in the 2020 presidential election in the state. Mr. Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted last month […]

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