Former Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani has agreed to drop charges of election fraud against former Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, according to court documents released Tuesday.
The mother-daughter duo won a defamation lawsuit and $148 million judgment against Trump’s former lawyer and two-time New York City mayor in December.
Giuliani accused them of election fraud after the 2020 election, saying they stole the election with stolen USB drives. “Like vials of heroin or cocaine.” Moss later testified before Congress that his mother gave him mints while he counted the ballots.
Fraud allegations, they would later say, derailed their lives, and Freeman was forced to leave his home due to threats. Last year, Georgian state authorities officially cleared pair of all claims of wrongdoing.
Giuliani declared bankruptcy the day after the verdict and wanted to appeal the verdict; a judge said he could only if someone else pays his legal fees.
Earlier this month, Freeman and Moss filed in bankruptcy court, saying Giuliani continued to defame them on social media during a live broadcast in April and claimed there was evidence they counted ballots twice.
In this week’s settlement, Giuliani also agreed to allow the court to enforce the judgment and injunction in the future.
“Today ends efforts to profit from lies about these two heroes of American democracy,” said Michael J. Gottlieb, an attorney for Freeman and Moss.
Giuliani’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.