Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and former personal attorney to Republican Donald Trump, has reached a settlement with two election workers in Georgia whom he falsely accused of being involved in manipulating the 2020 elections in favor of Democrat Joe Biden, according to court documents filed Thursday.
The settlement came on the same day that a civil jury trial before Judge Lewis Liman was scheduled to begin in federal court in Manhattan to determine whether the election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss, could seize Giuliani’s house in Palm Beach, Florida.
Giuliani has been fined twice for contempt of court regarding how he treated the two election workers.
He has already handed over his Manhattan apartment, a 1980 Mercedes-Benz, and other assets to Freeman and Moss to help settle a court ruling ordering him to pay them $148 million in damages for the harm caused by his defamation.
However, Giuliani claims he should have been allowed to keep his Palm Beach home since it is now his permanent residence, a matter that the judge was expected to rule on in today’s trial, according to VOA.
Giuliani also said he could not fulfill Freeman and Moss’s request for three New York Yankees baseball championship rings because he had already given them as gifts to his son, Andrew.
Judge Liman was set to decide what would happen with the house and the rings after the trial in the same district where Giuliani served as the U.S. Attorney from 1983 to 1989.
Rudy Giuliani was highly praised for his leadership as mayor during the September 11, 2001 attacks, but his reputation has since been severely damaged.
