Jan. 10 (UPI) — Rudy Giuliani was ruled in contempt of court during a Friday hearing in Washington, D.C., in which he stood accused of continuing to make false and defamatory comments about two Georgia election workers.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found the former mayor of New York City in contempt for ignoring the terms of the $150 million defamation verdict against him reached in 2023 in which he agreed to stop slandering Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, NBC News and CNN reported .
Howell ordered Giuliani to publicly acknowledge and affirm that he understands all the evidence presented at his trial refutes his unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about the pair and their supposed role in Donald Trump ‘s 2020 presidential election loss to Joe Biden in Georgia.
“Mr. Giuliani engaged in the worst kind of defamation,” Howell said from the bench. “It is outrageous and shameful. This takes real chutzpah, Mr Giuliani.”…