Giuliani, the disgraced former lawyer of Donald Trump, was ordered on Dec. 15 to pay Ruby Freeman and Wandrea’ ArShaye “Shaye” Moss $148 million in a civil defamation lawsuit after a jury found that he had wrongly accused them of committing voter fraud during the 2020 general election. Trump lost the election to President Joe Biden.
After being awarded the tens of millions in damages, Freeman and Moss applied to have the automatic 30-day stay of judgment enforcement dissolved and to be able to seek their award in any district over worries that Giuliani had no assets in the District of Columbia where the case was tried and that he may use the month to dissipate the assets he does have.
Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C, sided with the pair of former election workers on Wednesday, stating in her ruling their request “is both appropriate and warranted.”
Howell said that during the trial Giuliani did not comply with court rules to disclose his financial situation, and continues to shrink from his responsibility to pay sanctions that were imposed on him for the failure.
Freeman and Moss had raised concerns that Giuliani has other debts and is facing other litigation, and may claim he is unable to pay them and may hide the assets he does by dissipating them.
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