A federal judge ruled that Rudy Giuliani must immediately fork over the $148 million to Georgia election workers after a judgment against him last week.
Judge Beryl Howell agreed with former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss to “permit immediate enforcement” of the judgment against Giuliani, saying the mother-daughter duo had “good cause” to be concerned about collecting from the former New York City mayor after the federal jury’s decision last week.
Giuliani could try to “find a way to dissipate [his] assets before plaintiffs are able to recover,” the women contended as the judge concurred that Giuliani’s record as an “unwilling and uncooperative litigant” provided “good cause to believe that he will seek to dissipate or conceal his assets” before he ends up paying them, ABC News reported.
According to ABC News:
Howell added that other civil cases filed against Giuliani — including one filed by his former attorney, Robert Costello, and another filed by President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden — “raise the risk that Giuliani has even greater motivation to hide his financial assets from potential future judgments against him.”
If Giuliani intends to appeal the judgment, which he has indicated he plans to do, he “would have to comply with the usual requirement of a full supersedeas bond,” Howell wrote, meaning that he may have to post a bond in the full amount of the judgment, Howell said.
Moss and Freeman were awarded $75 million in punitive damages after the week-long trial and an additional $20 million each for emotional distress.
Giuliani told the New York Post “that he lacked the assets to pay even the $43 million in damages initially sought by the workers and vowed ‘to fight this case until I die,'” the outlet reported.
“Giuliani’s attorney, Joe Sibley, said that the ruling is ‘the civil equivalent of the death penalty’ and ‘will be the end of Mr. Giuliani’ if he fails to win the appeal,” the Post added.
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