Atlanta – Two election workers in Georgia have reached an agreement in their defamation lawsuit against a right -wing extremist website based in the presidential elections in 2020, which she incorrectly accused fraud elections, as can be seen from a court report this week.
The lawsuit against the gateway expert, his owner Jim Hoft and his brother Joe Hoft was solved by a fair and reasonable comparison to the mutual satisfaction of the parties, said lawyers from Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss on Friday.
The submission to the St. Louis City Circuit Court did not provide any conditions for the comparison, but it says that until March 29, the measures should be concluded within the framework of the contract. Both sides have asked a judge to postpone the case by then if they expect to apply for dismissal. Hoft's lawyers did not respond to an e -mail to get a comment.
Almost 70 articles, which are cited in the lawsuit as defamatory, were no longer available on the Gateway expert on Friday, the Associated Press found.
Freeman and Moss, the election workers of Fulton County, sued the repeated false claims of the gateway expert that the mother-daughter couple introduced suitcase illegal ballot in November 2020, while working as a ballot paper in the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
Freeman and Moss also sued others, including other mayors of New York City and Donald Trump, Rudolph W. Giuliani and an America News Network, and claimed that both Trumps lying about the stolen election that led to death threats that made them for their fear for their lives.
Freeman and Moss try to obtain a defamation of $ 148 million, which they have won against Giuliani because of his false ballot claims.
Oan settled with Freeman and Moss in 2022. A video with the inscription State official “came to the conclusion that there was no widespread voter fraud in November 2020.
Freeman and Moss were put into the spotlight on December 3, 2020 when a representative of Trump's legal team Jacki Pick showed a surveillance video of the Senate Committee of the Georgia Senate from the room, in which ballot papers were counted. Pick claimed that republican observers were asked to go, and that the election workers, as soon as they were gone, were hidden, fraudulent ballot papers. No evidence for these claims was found.
Pice did not name the election workers, “said” one of them had the name Ruby about her shirt somewhere, “it said in the lawsuit. Later on that day, the Gateway expert Freemans published complete names, and Moss was identified in a subsequent story, the lawsuit said.
The false assertion that “suitcases” were removed from the eyes of the eyes of observers was exposed almost immediately. But the Gateway expert and the Hofts immortalized the narrative and published and promoted stories after they were aware that claims had been refuted, the lawsuit said.
In a phone call with Georgia Foreign Minister Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, Trump urged the Republican official to find votes for him, and mentioned Freeman by name. She called her “a fraud of voices, professional voices and a professional fraud of voices”.
Freeman was a temporary election worker in 2020. Moss has been working for Fulton County's election department since 2012 and supervised the voting company.
When the allegations spread, Freeman received e -mails, text messages and impending calls, and strangers appeared in their house, the lawsuit said. The FBI closed on January 6, 2021 that it was not safe at home, and it moved for two months. She gave up her business that sold clothes.
Moss' youthful son was bombed with threatening news after harassing her old phone number he used, it said in the lawsuit. Since she had previously lived with her grandmother, the lawsuit, strangers, appeared at least twice in the house of her grandmother and tried to “arrest the citizen”.
Amy writes for the Associated Press.
