Judge Schedules Civil Contempt Hearing For Giuliani

The Huffington Post reports:

A civil contempt hearing is now on the books in Washington, D.C., for Rudy Giuliani — just a day after two election workers he defamed, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, notified a judge that they believed the former New York City mayor has continued to smear them publicly.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered Giuliani on Thursday to respond to the motion for civil contempt by Dec. 2. The former election workers will then have until Dec. 6 to file their response to Giuliani. The first hearing in the case will be held on Dec. 12 at the federal courthouse near the U.S. Capitol.

In recent comments on his podcast, “America’s Mayor Live,” Giuliani repeated his lie that the mother-daughter duo passed a USB drive to each other containing votes for Joe Biden when they were working the polls at an arena in Atlanta in Nov. 2020.

Read the full article. The maximum penalty for a federal civil contempt conviction is six months in jail and a $1000 fine. On a related note, Giuliani’s money beg to “buy food” has now raised $136,000. The money beg was launched on Giuliani’s behalf by the far-right founder of Pastors For Trump.

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