Judge warns Rudy Giuliani he could face 'imprisonment' after attacking election workers again [View all]

Source: The Independent

Judge warns Rudy Giuliani he could face ‘imprisonment’ after attacking election workers again

The former New York City mayor could be hit with an ‘arsenal of sanctions’ for his statements

Alex Woodward
New York
Tuesday 10 December 2024 01:43 GMT

Rudy Giuliani could face hefty fines “as well as imprisonment” if he is held in contempt for repeatedly falsely accusing a pair of election workers of manipulating election results in 2020, a federal judge cautioned Donald Trump’s former attorney on Monday.

A mother-daughter pair of election workers last month accused the former New York City mayor of violating a court order that blocks him from repeating anything that resembles his defamatory remarks about them.

The women asked the judge overseeing a defamation case in Washington, DC to consider holding him in contempt in their last-ditch effort to stop him from attacking them while they try to collect the nearly $150 million judgment against him.

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