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By Benjamin Lynch
US Politics and National Affairs Reporter
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Rudy Giuliani's public attacks on two poll workers could land him in jail, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said.
A Washington, D.C., jury has ordered the former adviser and lawyer for ex-President Donald Trump to pay $148 million in damages to Georgia pollsters Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss. They successfully sued Giuliani and a judge ordered $20 million each for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, $75 million in punitive damages and further damages of between $16 and $17 million each.
Since the defamation suit, another claim against Giuliani has been launched by the mother and daughter duo asking for "injunctive relief" after yet more false claims about them were made by Giuliani on the conservative news station Newsmax.
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Kirschner said a judge in Georgia could take a dim view of Giuliani's comments. He is charged in Georgia as one of 18 co-conspirators with Trump in a sprawling indictment relating to alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Freeman and Moss "will almost certainly testify in Georgia," Kirschner said, meaning a judge could pull up Giuliani for allegedly intimidating witnesses.
"It feels like Rudy should now be up because it sure looks like he's violating the conditions of his release in the Georgia case by continuing to intimidate, lie about, defame, and endanger Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman," he told the MSNBC show The ReidOut on Monday.
Kirschner continued: "You know, he is on release in the Georgia case. I have his release conditions right here, and Joy, number five is that the defendant, Giuliani, 'shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him to be a co-defendant or witness in the case, or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice.'
"What is he doing? After that jury award in DC, he's intimidating and endangering the lives of the witnesses in the Georgia case, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman. They will almost certainly testify in Georgia."
Newsweek has approached a legal representative for Giuliani via an email to law firm Camara & Sibley comment.
Giuliani, who denies the charges, was charged on 13 counts under Georgia's anti-racketeering (RICO) law. They are:
- Violation of the Georgia RICO act
- Conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer
- Two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree
- Three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer
- Three counts of false statements and writings
- Conspiracy to commit filing false documents
- Two counts of conspiracy to commit false statements and writings
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