Joy Reid recently questioned an attorney for two election workers regarding how they intend to collect the $148 million a jury awarded them in their defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani via Mediaite.
It has been noted that in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, Giuliani and a cadre of Trump hangers-on spread deranged conspiracy theories claiming the election had been stolen.
Giuliani took matters a step further by singling out Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss – two election workers in Georgia. He claimed they were handling election-altering USB drives “like vials of heroin or cocaine.”
The “drives” turned out to be mints. The judge in the case issued a summary judgment deeming Giuliani liable for defamation after the former New York mayor admitted he made false statements about Freeman and Moss. A jury subsequently awarded the hefty sum to the plaintiffs. Throughout the case, Giuliani lashed out against the two and the judge.
On Friday’s edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC, the host interviewed the plaintiffs’ attorney, Von Dubose – to whom she listed Giuliani’s myriad financial woes.
“At this moment, Rudy Giuliani owes $500,000 in unpaid taxes,” she noted. “The IRS has a lien on his Palm Beach property. He’s selling his Upper East Side property. It’s on the market for $6 million, but it hasn’t been sold yet. “And his consulting firm defaulted on a debt for a phone bill. How are you gonna collect?”
“We’ve already put the pieces in motion for that,” he replied. “We are intending to collect every nickel of it. We’ll see how much we ultimately find and how much we ultimately recover. But we are putting the pieces together right now.”
“Just to sort of help our audience understand how this works, can these ladies put a lien on his properties?” Reid asked. “Would his tax returns be taken? Like, pragmatically, how could you make him pay?”
“Every enforcement measure at our fingertips will be put in play,” Dubose said. “So we’ll look at liens. We’ll look at garnishments, levies. We’ll look at everything. We’ll look at everything, absolutely.”
