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Hey folks, Joyce here.

Here's a recording of my latest cafe note, Make Them Stop Abusing Bankruptcy.

As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters atcafe.com.

Dear listener, what do you do when a judge enters $148 million defamation judgment against you? If you're Rudy Giuliani,

you turn around and file for bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York the next day.

Under Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, an automatic stay of further proceedings against a

debtor and a debtor's property goes into effect immediately after a bankruptcy filing.

In this case, that meant that Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter,

Shea Moss, were unable to collect on their judgment, even though Giuliani acknowledged that he

owned two substantial pieces of property, a co-op in Manhattan and an apartment in Palm Beach,

Florida.

You probably remember the facts from the House January 6th committee hearings.

Freeman and Moss offered some of the most riveting testimony of the entire proceedings.

Following the 2020 election, there were allegations from the Trump camp of fraudulent vote counting in Georgia.

Supposedly, there were suitcases full of ballots that were counted more than once.

A so-called smoking gun video started circulating, and the far-right website, the Gateway Pundit, TGP, posted it.

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