Things (still) not going so well for Rudy

Rudolph W. Giuliani was suspended by WABC radio on Friday and his daily talk show was abruptly canceled after the station said he violated its policy by trying to discuss discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election on air.

John Catsimatidis, the billionaire Republican businessman who owns the station, said he had made the decision after Mr. Giuliani refused to avoid the topic despite repeated warnings.

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WABC has become a haven for conservative voices and colorful New York City characters. He broadcast Mr. Giuliani’s show every weekday and featured him on another program on Sundays.

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“Obviously I was never informed on such a policy, and even if there was one, it was violated so often that it couldn’t be taken seriously,” [Giuliani] wrote.

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Mr. Guiliani’s removal from WABC, one of his only current sources of income, is almost certain to add to the mounting legal and financial woes that have engulfed him in the years since.

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Giuliani has been criminally charged in two states, Georgia and Arizona, for this role in the effort to overturn the 2020 results and has been targeted in a number of recent lawsuits. He has also been besieged by creditors, including two Georgia election workers to whom he owes $148 million after a court found that he had defamed them.

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The Times reported last year that Mr. Giuliani earned roughly $400,000 a year from WABC; more recent court filings suggested he was losing money on the endeavor.

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Mr. Catsimatidis appears to have grown increasingly concerned that Mr. Guiliani’s continued presence on air could put WABC in legal jeopardy.

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[A letter from Catsimatidis to Giuliani] cited with concern a Bloomberg Law article reporting that the two George poll workers Mr. Giuliani defamed were accusing him of making new false statements.

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Mr. Catsimatidis said he had his own views about the outcome of the last presidential election, but that, like Mr. Giuliani’s, they were not a subject to discuss on air.

“My view is that nobody really knows but we had made a company policy,” he said. “It’s over, life goes on.”

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By Mr. Catsimatidis’s account, the events that prompted Mr. Giuliani’s suspension escalated on Thursday, as the host railed against the legal cases against him and the suspension of his law license in New York. He was midsentence when employees in the control room cut him off.

  NYT

We saw that coming a mile away

Of course, but he can still be prosecuted for the continuation of his lies committed, can't he?  

UPDATE 09:56 am:

Rudy duty

He has no intention of paying it.  Can they attach a lien to his apartment for payment?

UPDATE 12/16/2023:

Asking price: $6,100,000

Wait a bit.  He'll come down more after an appeal.

We'll see.

Like the whole Trump family, to name a few.

Also, is this another trip to court for defamation dollars? ...

UPDATE 12/18/2023:

UPDATE 12/19/2023:

UPDATE 12/21/2023:

And, it is my understanding that a settlement payment is not affected by bankruptcy.

Not going so well for Rudy

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 12/12/2023:

UPDATE 12/21/2023:

And, it is my understanding that a settlement payment is not affected by bankruptcy.

Ugh.

Quelle suprise

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Merry Xmas, Rudy

UPDATE 09/22/2023:

Couldn't happen to a more deserving person

In an unsparing, 57-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell said Giuliani had flagrantly violated her orders to preserve and produce relevant evidence to the election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, resulting in a “default” judgment against him. She also ordered him to pay Freeman and Moss “punitive” damages for failing to fulfill his obligations. A jury will determine the amount of those damages.

  Politico

Excuse me, but I hope it breaks him economically for the rest of his miserable life.

Howell’s ruling is tied to Freeman and Moss’ separate lawsuit against Giuliani in federal court in Washington for defamation, civil conspiracy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Howell has now ordered the case to proceed to a trial purely to determine the amount of damages Giuliani will have to pay them.

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Giuliani spent weeks accusing Freeman and Moss of manipulating ballots during Georgia’s vote counting process after the 2020 election, despite repeated investigations that debunked and discredited the allegations.

The harassment that Freeman and Moss endured as a result of these conspiracy theories is at the heart of some of the criminal charges now facing several of Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia racketeering case brought by Fulton County prosecutors. Giuliani is charged in that case, in part, for “false statements” to Georgia legislators related to his attacks on Freeman and Moss.

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The election workers filed their lawsuit in 2021 against Giuliani and the owners of the conservative, pro-Trump One America News network, alleging that reports about claims the pair tampered with ballots were unfounded and libelous. One America’s owners settled with the two women last year for an unspecified amount, but the litigation has continued against Giuliani.

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Howell has given the former New York City mayor and former federal prosecutor until Sept. 20 to produce documents about his net worth.

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Howell also suggested that Giuliani’s complaints about the flurry of legal demands he is facing are theatrical and intended for political consumption.

“Donning a cloak of victimization may play well on a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court of law this performance has served only to subvert the normal process of discovery in a straight-forward defamation case, with the concomitant necessity of repeated court intervention,” she said. “The fact that Giuliani is a sophisticated litigant with a self-professed 50 years of experience in litigation — including serving as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — only underscores his lackluster preservation efforts.”

Ouch.

Howell’s latest ruling comes amid a renewed and assertive effort by Giuliani and his allies to convince Trump to foot more of Giuliani’s mounting legal bills, which now include not only civil lawsuits, but the criminal indictment in Georgia where Trump, Giuliani and others are charged with racketeering for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state.

As if. 

Rudy is going to lose his shirt, and Trump is not going to give him one of his. Even if Trump (or another Trumpy Republican) were to take the oval office next election and pardon Rudy for the crimes, he won't be able to recoup the money he's having to spend.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Not enough

Doesn't begin to make up for the damage to their lives that asshole cost them.

And don't forget to add a whopping interest for every day he delays or appeals.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

More MAGA-fascist coup attempt evidence

According a report from Reuters on Friday, Trevian Kutti [a publicist who worked for Kanye West] arrived at Ruby Freeman's home on Jan. 4 and informed her that she was sent by a “high-profile individual” with an urgent message. Kutti then proceeded to tell the 62-year-old, who had served as a temporary election worker, that she needed to confirm Trump's fraud allegations or people would descend on her home within two days and she would be jailed.

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At the time, Freeman, who had already been accused of perpetuating fraud by Trump allies, said she had become wary of strangers and did not open her door to Kutti. Instead, she called the police and asked a male neighbor to talk with Kutti and an unidentified man she was with, according to Reuters.

When law enforcement officials came to the scene, Kutti identified herself as a "crisis manager" and informed police that Freeman “was in danger," adding that she had "48 hours" before "unknown subjects" arrived at her home, Reuters reported.

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“I cannot say what specifically will take place,” Kutti was heard telling Freeman in a recording captured by the officer's bodycam. “I just know that it will disrupt your freedom," she said, "and the freedom of one or more of your family members.”

“You are a loose end for a party that needs to tidy up,” Kutti added, saying that “federal people” were involved in the situation.

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The day after the meeting, an FBI agent contacted Freeman and warned her to leave her home due to safety concerns.

The next day, Jan. 6, the same day that a mob of Trump supports stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of the Electoral College vote, a crowd of Trump supporters arrived at her home with bullhorns, Reuters reported.

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Georgia prosecutors are investigating the former president's efforts to overturn the election results in the state, which included pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to “find” enough votes to reverse his loss.

  The Hill