Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, former mayor of New York, managed to get rid of a lawsuit filed against him through which the company Dominion Voting Systems demanded compensation of $1.3 billion dollars for having spread a false theory about his alleged intervention to manipulate the results of the 2020 presidential election.

In April 2023, the company dedicated to selling electronic voting hardware and software had already obtained $800 million from the Fox News television network to avoid a trial under the same accusation.

"The truth matters. Lies have consequences," declared Justin Nelson, a lawyer for Dominion, at the time.

Inspired by that victory to keep its reputation clean, Dominion Voting Systems turned to Rudy Giuliani, whose legal team opted to reach a financial settlement and thus avoid a painful defeat in court with even more dire consequences for the New York politician.

"Each party will bear its own legal fees, expenses and costs," Dominion's lawyers stated in the court filing without revealing the amount that the Denver, Colorado-based company would receive.

In 2021, Dominion Voting Systems filed the lawsuit against Giuliani who, poorly advised, continued falsely accusing that the company's machines had altered the vote count in Pennsylvania in favor of Joe Biden's candidacy at the expense of Donald Trump.

“It is worth noting that, although Dominion machines were used in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, the Trump campaign's complaint did not include any allegations against Dominion,” the legal team of the company founded in 2002 in Toronto, Canada, indicated in its lawsuit.

Giuliani had against him the experience of having lost another lawsuit filed by two former Georgia election employees to whom, for having defamed them, he had to pay them $148 million dollars, only to reach an agreement to reduce that amount.

In this way, The 81-year-old New Yorker asked his lawyers to reach an agreement with Dominion Voting Systems, as he lacks the $1.3 billion the company is demanding.