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Dirty unsubstantiated defaming should be a reason enough to take the perpetrator to the cleaners ... "
Ruby Freeman & Wandrea "Shaye" Moss

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2021/11/24/7101

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to take to the cleaners
to take to the cleaners means to take someone’s money, to relieve someone of his fortune or his goods, to take away someone’s goods or livelihood and leave him destitute. People often threaten to take someone to the cleaners when threatening to best them in a gamble, or when threatening to sue them in a legal court.

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Judgment for defaming Georgia election workers

In December 2021, two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, sued Giuliani for defamation,[399][400] after Giuliani falsely accused them of manipulating vote tallies.[401] He has accused them of "passing around USB ports as if they were vials of heroin or cocaine" and engaging in "surreptitious illegal activity," citing video footage that, according to Moss, actually showed the women with "a ginger mint".[402] Moss testified before the United States House of Representatives that after Giuliani's remarks she and her family were subjected to a barrage of racist threats, including "Be glad it's 2020 and not 1920," in reference to lynching in the United States.[403]

In July 2023, Giuliani was ordered to pay attorneys' fees to the election workers after being sanctioned for failing to turn over evidence in the case.[404] Later that month, Giuliani admitted his statements had been "defamatory per se" yet denied they had caused "any damages".[405] On August 4, the judge asked him to explain why he was still fighting the lawsuit, given his admission.[406] Due to his failure to produce documents, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued an order on August 30 ruling that he forfeited his case by failing to comply with his discovery obligations.[407] Meanwhile, the court increased what he owed for the plaintiffs' legal fees,[408] and he did not immediately pay.[409] The plaintiffs subsequently requested money to cover additional attorneys' fees that arose from discovery disputes during the case.[410] The judge again increased what Giuliani owed; the total was over $230,000.[411]

On October 13, the judge said that due to Giuliani's "continued and flagrant disregard of this Court's August 30 Order that he produce financial-related documents concerning his personal and his businesses' past and present assets", she would tell the jurors that he intentionally hid financial documents in defiance of court orders.[412] On December 5, 2023, Giuliani did not appear at a federal court pretrial hearing. Freeman and Moss attended. Giuliani's lawyer, Joseph Sibley IV, told the judge he had not understood that Giuliani's presence was required and that it was "my mistake";[413] the judge criticized Giuliani's failure to appear.[414][415]

The trial began on December 11. During the trial on the amount of damages, the plaintiffs' testified that Giuliani's false statements, beginning with one of his tweets, prompted a barrage of threatening phone calls and messages against them, including many that were violent, vulgar, or racist.[401] They also testified that Giuliani's lies caused others to show up at Freeman's home, to attempt to conduct a "citizen's arrest" of Moss at her grandmother's home, and to barrage Moss' teenage son with cell phone messages.[401] During the trial, Giuliani publicly repeated his false claim that Freeman and Moss "were engaged in changing votes"[416] and claimed that "When I testify, the whole story will be definitively clear that what I said was true."[417] However, Giuliani ultimately declined to testify,[401][417] and his defense team called no witnesses.[417] Giuliani's attorney pointed to another defamation lawsuit Freeman and Moss had filed against The Gateway Pundit, saying the website had likely instigated the harassment against them.[418]

On December 15, 2023, the federal jury ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million to Freeman and Moss, including $75 million in punitive damages.[401][419] After the verdict, Giuliani said he regretted nothing and said he would appeal.[401][420] One of his lawyers suggested he would file for bankruptcy.[401] On December 20, 2023, concerned that Giuliani would hide his assets given the "ample record in this case of Giuliani’s efforts to conceal or hide his assets," Judge Beryl A. Howell ordered swift payment of the damages.[421] On December 21, he filed for bankruptcy.[422]

On December 18, Freema