The case pitted two election workers against a man who was once dubbed "America's mayor" for his role leading New York after 9/11. In arguments before the jury entered deliberations last week, Giuliani's attorney had said that paying the requested $48 million " will be the end" of him financially. "Such claims of Giuliani's 'financial difficulties' - no matter how many times repeated or publicly disseminated and duly reported in the media - are difficult to square with the fact that Giuliani affords a spokesperson, who accompanied him daily to trial," the judge wrote.