By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-16 21:26:29 | Updated at 2025-01-17 05:58:19
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Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, agreed to stop defaming two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of helping steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden as part of a legal settlement on Thursday.
In a statement read by his lawyer, Giuliani said the settlement lets him keep his Palm Beach, Florida, condominium as well as his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Additional settlement terms were not immediately available.
“I and the plaintiffs have agreed not to ever talk about each other in any defamatory manner, and I urge others to do the same,” Giuliani said in the statement read by his lawyer Joseph Cammarata to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan.
The election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss, said they had also been compensated as part of the settlement, though they did not specify how much.
“We can now move forward with our lives,” they said in a statement. “We have agreed to allow Mr Giuliani to retain his property in exchange for compensation and his promise not to ever defame us.”
The settlement means Giuliani will no longer face a non-jury civil trial, which had been due to begin on Thursday before US District Judge Lewis Liman, over whether he must turn over his real estate to Freeman and Moss.
