An attorney for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, had urged the eight-person jury to “send a message” with its verdict.

Rudy Giuliani should pay a pair of Georgia election workers he repeatedly and falsely accused of fraud $148 million in damages, a federal jury said Friday.

The eight-person jury awarded Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, the sum after a four-day trial, during which they testified that Giuliani’s lies in support of former President Donald Trump’s bogus stolen-election claims subjected them to a torrent of racist and violent threats and turned their lives upside down.

Freeman testified Wednesday that she was terrorized by Trump supporters and forced to move from her home because of Giuliani’s smears. “I was scared to come home at dark, you know,” a visibly emotional Freeman said on the witness stand. “I was just scared, I knew I had to move.”

  • @jopepa
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    301 year ago

    I hear about bad faith charities and foundations all of the time. It’s insane that this is just accepted and unchallenged.

    • @irreticent
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      71 year ago

      Lawmakers aren’t going to close that loophole because they all do it themselves.

      • @jopepa
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        31 year ago

        I like to believe it isn’t all of them but yeah that’s the heart of these problems.