Vernon Jones, a Trump-supporting former Georgia state senator, has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $45,000 to a one-time constituent he had blocked on Facebook, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“Grimberg also found that Miko’s claims were sufficient to prove liability and issued a judgment against Jones, who never responded to the lawsuit or tried to defend it,” said the report. Miko was awarded $8,000 in damages and $37,652 in legal fees.
Jones, a Democrat-turned-Republican with a controversial history of corruption and sexual assaultallegations, originally mounted a campaign for governor in which he denied the results of the 2020 election and challenged Republican incumbent Brian Kemp for not doing enough to overturn them.