Updated Dec. 11, 2023 7:21 pm ET
WASHINGTON—Rudy Giuliani’s legal and financial woes could worsen this week, with a District of Columbia jury considering whether the former Trump lawyer should pay tens of millions of dollars for falsely accusing two Georgia election workers of rigging the November 2020 presidential election.
The $47 million being sought by plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, is the “civil equivalent of the death penalty,” Giuliani’s lawyer Joe Sibley said during an opening statement Monday afternoon.
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