Michael J. Gottlieb can never remember the exact amount — it’s $148,169,000— that a jury ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay the Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
“Don’t waste your time being angry at those who did this to me and my daughter,” said Ms. Freeman 65, who with her daughter Ms. Moss, 39, was falsely accused by Mr. Giuliani of aiding an imagined plot to steal the 2020 presidential election.
“We are more than conquerors.”Less than a decade ago, the two women would have struggled to find a lawyer.
But Mr. Gottlieb, a partner at the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, represented them for free.
Mr. Gottlieb has also represented the owner of the Washington pizzeria targeted by “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorists as well as the brother of Seth Rich, a young Democratic National Committee staff member whose 2016 murder ignited bogus theories implicating his family.
Persons:
Michael J, Gottlieb, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, ”, Freeman, Moss, “, Willkie Farr, Gallagher, Obama, “ Pizzagate, Seth Rich, Meryl Governski
Organizations:
House, Washington, Democratic National Committee, Protect Democracy
Locations:
Georgia