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Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Election Worker Defamation Case

21Dec

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World

Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Election Worker Defamation Case

Updated Dec. 21, 2023 1:46 pm ET|WSJ ProRudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and ex-lawyer for Donald Trump, has filed for bankruptcy after a court ordered him to pay nearly $150 million to two Georgia election workers for defaming them.Giuliani filed for chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, reporting estimated assets of between $1 million and $10 million and estimated liabilities of at least $152 million.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

17Dec

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Business

The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani

The tragedy of Rudy Giuliani continues to escalate with last week’s jury award of $148 million in a defamation suit brought by two Georgia election workers. What a long, strange decline it’s been for the former mayor who rescued New York City from a previous era of progressive decline. The eight-member Washington, D.C., jury awarded the two election workers three times more than the $48 million they sought, and that is likely to be reduced by the trial judge or an appellate court.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Rudy Giuliani Hit With $148 Million Verdict for Defaming Election Workers

15Dec

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Rudy Giuliani Hit With $148 Million Verdict for Defaming Election Workers

Updated Dec. 15, 2023 5:18 pm ETWASHINGTON—A jury said Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani must pay $148 million for falsely accusing two Georgia election workers of rigging the 2020 presidential contest.The stunning verdict in favor of Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, is the latest humiliation for the former New York City mayor in his remarkable fall from grace. It also marks another instance of those smeared by postelection conspiracy theories clearing their names through civil lawsuits.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Rudy Giuliani Stands Trial in $47 Million Defamation Case

12Dec

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Rudy Giuliani Stands Trial in $47 Million Defamation Case

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 7:21 pm ETWASHINGTON—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.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Elon Musk’s X Sues Media Matters Over Report Showing Ads Appeared Near Pro-Nazi Content

21Nov

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Elon Musk’s X Sues Media Matters Over Report Showing Ads Appeared Near Pro-Nazi Content

Nov. 21, 2023 10:07 am ETX sued Media Matters for America after the left-leaning media watchdog group reported ads appeared near antisemitic and pro-Nazi content on the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter.X alleged in its lawsuit filed in federal court Monday that Media Matters was orchestrating a smear campaign to drive away advertisers. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Elon Musk’s X Sues Watchdog Media Matters For Defamation

21Nov

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Technology

Elon Musk’s X Sues Watchdog Media Matters For Defamation

Elon Musk’s X sued the watchdog group Media Matters for America for defamation on Monday after the nonprofit published a report about ads for major brands appearing alongside posts touting Nazism.Media Matters first published details Thursday about the spread of Nazi-related content on the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, saying X had been placing ads for major brands, including Apple, IBM and Comcast’s Xfinity, next to offending content. The research group published screenshots of posts praising Hitler that ran adjacent to the ads shortly after Musk seemed to endorse an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the site.The report prompted a fresh wave of criticism for X, and many advertisers suspended their ad buys.But X claimed in the suit — filed in U.S. District Court for the...