The federal judge presiding over Rudy Giuliani's defamation case lodged by two Georgia election workers claiming he was trafficking in 2020 presidential election conspiracy theories ruled on Friday that the jury will be informed that he tried to hide his wealth from the court.
"The jury will be instructed that it must, when determining an appropriate sum of compensatory, presumed, and punitive damages, infer that defendant Giuliani was intentionally trying to hide relevant discovery about the Giuliani Businesses’ finances for the purpose of shielding his assets from discovery and artificially deflating his net worth," according U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell's ruling.
In the five-page order the D.C. judge excoriated the former New York City mayor and personal attorney for former President Donald Trump for his "continued and flagrant disregard" of the court's request that he produce financial documents "concerning his personal and his businesses’ past and present assets, revenues, income, viewership metrics, and social media reach, all of which information is potentially pertinent at the upcoming damages trial."
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As a result, the judge wrote that there will be "adverse inferences proposed."
Election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss accuse Giuliani of carrying the president's water for weeks at the culmination of the 2020 election. They say he accused them of manipulating ballots while Georgia was tallying its votes.
The harassment case of both Freeman and Ross is also a centerpiece of some of the criminal charges that have ensnared many of Trump’s allies in the Georgia racketeering case brought by Fulton County prosecutors.
