Today could be the Day of Reckoning for Rudy Giuliani, whose trial on defamation went to the jury yesterday and will resume deliberations at any minute. The plaintiffs, Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman are seeking 24 million dollars...each. And that's not even taking into account possible punitive damages. Given that at least two of the eight jurors were seen weeping during the testimony of Ms. Freeman and Ms. Shaye, things don't look good for Rudy.
And as it turned out, the outcome was far worse than even I thought that it would be, (I'm writing this several hours after I wrote the above paragraph). Rudy's on the hook for 148 million dollars. Not that the ladies will ever see it, but If Rudy gets change from a cup of coffee, the ladies will be right there to snatch the coins from his hand. Rudy's apartment in New York is on the market for 6 million dollars, but Rudi will never see a dime of the proceeds. From this point on, he lives on the suffering of strangers. I'm not gloating, (well, not much), but Rudy was always a hotheaded bully. He ran racially charged campaigns against David Dinklins, which featured a racially charged rally at which he spoke to a group of NYC policemen, many of whom were what contemporary accounts described as "...drunk and disorderly...". featured vulgar and racially charged taunts against the Mayor Dinkins. It was, in hindsight, a dress rehearsal for the Jan. 6 Insurrection. His shabby treatment of his second wife is legendary, (he announced his intention to divorce Donna Hanover at a press conference, which was news to her. His daughter uses her mom's name because she doesn't want to be associated with him)'. In the end, Giuliani will be remembered by historians as a small man with a burnt cinder where his heart should have been.
