Rudy Giuliani must pay more than $148m for election lies

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Rudy Giuliani, a longtime associate of former President Donald Trump, has been ordered to pay more than $148m (£116m) to two women over false claims they tampered with votes in 2020.

A judge had already found Mr Giuliani liable of making defamatory claims about Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss.

Ms Moss said after the verdict that the past few years had been "devastating".

The verdict came after a four-day trial to determine the penalty.

The verdict absolutely wipes out the disgraced former New York Mayor but not to worry, I'm sure his friend Donald - who says he has over $10 billion - will stump up the cash for Rudi who only made these false claims at the direction, and for the benefit of Donald Trump.

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Seems almost everyone who comes into the Donald's sphere of influence - whether by accident or design, gets their fingers badly burned especially his lawyers.

Poor Giulliani, he helped America thru the very traumatic crisis of 9/11. And he cleaned up the American east coast of organised crime, taking down 5 big criminal families. Massive achievements - he'd have been hailed a latter day hero with the status of almost a demi-god ..... if only he hadn't become one of Donald's cultists.

Cheeto the narcicist chews people up and spits them out when he no longer has any use for them leaving a trail of human wreckage in its wake.

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I sometimes wonder if Rudi's his screw up with 'Fat Tony" Salerno - who he identified as the head of the Genovese family instead of the real head Vinny 'The Chin' Gigante - was as inadvertant as it appeared.

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I sometimes wonder if Rudi's his screw up with 'Fat Tony" Salerno - who he identified as the head of the Genovese family instead of the real head Vinny 'The Chin' Gigante - was as inadvertant as it appeared.

Giuliani cleared the Italian mob from New York to make room for the Russian gangs. It has been a long game.