Who says crime doesn’t pay?

2024-01-15 18:50:51

EDITED – In the United States, you don’t need to work to make your fortune. You just have to win a case.

148 million dollars (around €135 million) is money. A lot of money. A lot, even. Well, $148 million is the amount that was awarded by the American justice system to two people accused of a crime.

And it was not just anyone who accused these two people of this crime. No. It’s by a man who served as associate attorney general of the United States and then as a federal prosecutor in New York.

This man is Rudolph William Louis Giuliani III. He is commonly known as Rudy Giuliani.

He was mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, but it is for another role that he has occupied the media sphere across the Atlantic in recent years, since he was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

And it was in the exercise of this function that he was incriminated.

A little reminder of the facts.

From a video showing two election workers passing an object, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, during the counting of ballots for the 2020 presidential election, Rudy Giuliani claimed that they were exchanging a USB key“to rig the results”.

It was later confirmed that it was not a USB stick at all, but a mint lozenge.

As a result, it was Rudy Giuliani who found himself in federal court in Washington, accused by the two women of defamation. These complainants, two African-Americans, recounted how Rudy Giuliani’s accusations, taken up by Donald Trump on his social networks, had earned them a barrage of insults and threats, often of a racist nature.

Their lawyers had demanded at least $24 million for each. The jury awarded them more: 17.5 million dollars in compensation and 20 million for the moral damage suffered for each of the two women, “plus a total amount of 75 million in damages”, specified the American media.

In France, for the moment, we are still, fortunately, escaping this big nonsense.

Devil ! However, it is rightly so that Rudy Giuliani has built a reputation “d’incorruptible”as prosecutor, notably by imprisoning the leaders of the “Pizza Connection”as well as several organized crime figures.

And when he was mayor of New York, he managed to significantly reduce the crime and delinquency that plagued the city before his election.

He is caught who thought he was caught… Obviously, the price to pay, under the Biden administration, of his proximity to Donald Trump.

So, you know what?

I’m filing a complaint!