New York (AP)-Rudy Giuliani reached a deal on Thursday, in which the mayor of cash on money, including the estimated World Series rings, in exchanges against non-specified compensation and the promise to never speak again, his houses And have two former workers kept in Georgia, who won a slander judgment of 148 million US dollars against him.
The agreement solves all outstanding legal disputes between Giuliani and the former election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss. It also led to the cancellation of a process that was to begin on Thursday to decide the possession of his property in Florida and three World Series rings that Giuliani, a prominent New York Yankees fan, received from the team.
The 80 -year -old Giuliani was supposed to be the first witness of the process, but he never appeared to the Federal Court in Manhattan.
Instead, his and the women's lawyers struggle to form a solution there. After a few hours without legal proceedings, the lawyers came out of a side room, shook their hands and congratulated each other. Giuliani's son Andrew, who had claimed ownership of the rings, beamed when he left the courtroom.
“Today is a good day,” said reporters afterwards.
Unanswered: How much Giuliani agreed to pay the women, how to take the bill and whether someone helps him.
Giuliani had already started handing over assets before the settlement, including his apartment in Manhattan, which is worth around 5 million US dollars, a Mercedes from 1980, once owned by film star Lauren Bacall, numerous luxury watches and other things. His total assets are a value of around 10 million US dollars.
Freeman and Moss won the massive judgment after saying Giuliani's lies about her after Donald Trump's election losing the election in 2020 led to death threats.
“The last four years have been a living nightmare. We fought to clarify our names, to restore our reputation and to prove that we didn't do anything wrong, ”said the women in an explanation. “Today is a big milestone on our trip.”
With the agreement they said: “We can now advance our lives.”
Giuliani said in a declaration published on social media and read from his lawyer to the reporters that the agreement fulfills the verdict against him, but “does not include liability or misconduct”.
“I am satisfied and have no complaints about the result we achieved,” said Giuliani, adding that he could keep his apartment in Manhattan and Florida as well as all of his personal objects.
“Nobody deserves to be exposed to threats, harassment or intimidation,” wrote the former mayor. “This legal dispute has called for all parties their toll. This whole episode was unhappy. I and the plaintiffs have agreed to never talk about each other in a different way, and I ask others to do the same. “
Giuliani's lawyer Joseph Cammarata said that the deal had emerged from the negotiations in the past three days that “went into the early morning”.
If an agreement had not been made, Giuliani had been to trial on Thursday before the same judge despised him last week because he had not given any information about some of his assets to the women's lawyers. As a punishment, judge Lewis J. Liman Giuliani banned to use certain evidence.
The process that has now turned should not think whether Giuliani experienced the women or the size of the judgment against him.
Rather, the fate of some of his valuable assets should decide, including his apartment in Florida, from which it is assumed. 1 Yankee fan. “
Giuliani argued that a year ago he founded a place of residence near Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, but the lawyers of Freeman and Moss said that he continued to work as if his New York apartment would be his apartment. Giuliani said he gave his son the rings in 2018.
Andrew Giuliani said it was his understanding that he would keep the rings.
Giuliani was also found in Washington last week, DC, the judge there noticed that he continued to deny the election workers by repeating false claims that they were corrupted during the presidential competition.
Giuliani, once announced as a “Mayor of America” for his leadership after September 11, served as Trump's personal lawyer for a while during the first term of office of the elected president.
“Save Rudy !!!” Trump posted on his social platform of truth on Sunday.
When the lawyers completed the settlement, Giuliani published a video on social media that shows a dog named Vinny on the site of Trump's Florida estate. The dog who said, said “loves to hang around in Mar-A-Lago”, but is “ready to spend much more time in Washington, DC, and supports Trump. It was not clear when the recording was made became.
Giuliani reported bankruptcy within days after the defamation judgment and took a break. After a judge dropped the case last July and found that the former mayor had decorated the nose in the trial, Freeman and Moss sued the enforcement of payment.
Until last May Giuliani had a pension account of just over $ 1 million, almost 94,000 US dollars in terms of personal cash and about 237,000 US dollars in his company's account.
At a recent hearing, Giuliani said that he was “not impoverished”, but he had no access to most of his remaining assets.
“Everything I have is tied up,” he complained.
Giuliani said in a curved deposition in the last month that the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner reminded rings to commemorate the four World Series, which the team won as mayor in 2002.
Giuliani said he insisted to pay for the rings that were the same as those who received the players, and said Steinbrenner: “These are for Andrew.” He said he immediately given Andrew, a teenager, and kept three more to the backup. He estimated their total value of $ 27,000.
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