Posted on 09/26/2024 9:21:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rudy Giuliani, the embattled former adviser to former President Donald Trump, has been disbarred in Washington following a disciplinary board’s criticisms of his reactions to the 2020 presidential election.
A three-judge panel on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ordered Giuliani’s disbarment on Sept. 26. The brief order noted, among other things, Giuliani’s disbarment in the state of New York, where an appeals court similarly accused Giuliani of making “demonstrably false and misleading statements to the courts, lawmakers, and the public at large.”
The case came before Judges Eric T. Washington, Roy McLeese, and Joshua Deahl. In June 2023, the District of Columbia Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility issued a report stating that Giuliani “claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it.”
The board added that while it considered Giuliani’s “conduct following the September 11 attacks as well as his prior service in the Justice Department and as Mayor of New York City,” it said “all of that happened long ago.”
His conduct during the 2020 presidential election “transcends all his past accomplishments,” the board said, adding, “It was unparalleled in its destructive purpose and effect.”
Giuliani’s law licenses in Washington and New York were suspended in 2021. After the New York decision, Giuliani said: “America is not America any longer. We do not live in a free state. We live in a state that’s controlled by the Democrat Party, by [Gov. Andrew] Cuomo, by [New York City Mayor Bill] de Blasio, and the Democrats.”
Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, called the Sept. 26 appeals court decision “an absolute travesty and a total miscarriage of justice.”
Giuliani has argued that he believed the claims he was making on behalf of the Trump campaign were true.
“Members of the legal community who want to protect the integrity of our justice system should immediately speak out against this partisan, politically motivated decision,” Goodman said in a text message.
Giuliani, 80, is currently facing financial ruin and legal challenges related to the 2020 election.
He has pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in the Arizona case alleging he spread false claims of election fraud there after the 2020 election. He has separately been charged in Georgia along with Trump and other allies of the former president with trying to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
A jury last year awarded two Georgia election workers $148 million in damages in a defamation suit they brought against Giuliani.
Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official during the Trump administration, similarly faced disciplinary proceedings over his role in the administration’s response to the 2020 election.
In an Aug. 1 report, a three-member panel of the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility said that Clark “attempted dishonesty and did so with truly extraordinary recklessness.”
Giuliani also reached a last-minute deal in his bankruptcy case in August. After the dismissal of his bankruptcy case in Washington, the two election workers filed a motion seeking control over his assets.
According to the filing, Giuliani disclosed that his New York apartment was valued at $5.6 million and his Florida condo at $3.5 million. The former Trump adviser also testified that the Trump 2020 campaign and Republican National Committee owed him “about $2 million.”
The Aug. 30 filing repeatedly noted Giuliani’s refusal to cooperate with court orders.
In his financial filings, Giuliani said he had about $94,000 cash on hand at the end of May, while his company, Giuliani Communications, had about $237,000 in the bank. A main source of income for the 80-year-old former mayor has been a retirement account with a balance of just over $1 million in May, down from nearly $2.5 million in 2022.
I’m not the least bit surprised the District of Corruption would pull such a stunt like this.
Election interference and fraud.
Preemptive defense to protect the steal.
Machines did it.
FWIW - the “Washington DC Court of Appeals” is loosely analogous to a State Supreme Court. It is a court for Washington DC only. It is not a Federal Court. It also controls admission to the DC Bar
Giuliani was licensed to practice law in DC, probably “by appointment,” or a transfer of another state license to DC, which is allowed by the DC Bar, as Giuliani was a US Federal Govt attorney previously in the 1980s.
He obviously is not practicing law in DC now, nor has he been (if at all) for a very long time.
Its the equivalent of being publicly kicked out of a club you haven’t even attended in 30 years, so the club managers can make a PR gesture.
They are wrong.. There will be a day and time when all of them will be held accountable.
They have turned this United States into a socialist country.. Disagree and they make it hurt..
Nov.. They have to be stopped.
Democrats challenged 2016. They even gave us the 2 year mueller investigation trying to prove that election was rigged. Their efforts failed but nobody said democrats should go to jail and the lawyers disbarred.
False, in the sense that they were true but he couldn’t prove it.
Trump has to come through for these people at some point. Including the J6ers too!
All have faced dire consequences by showing support for him.
O what an hour and fearful day shall that be, when the Judge shall sit upon His fearsome throne! Books will be opened, deeds will be checked, and the hidden works of darkness will be made public. Angels speed about, gathering all the nations. Come, hearken, kings and rulers, slaves and freemen, sinners and righteous, rich men and paupers, He is coming who is about to judge the whole world; and who shall bear His countenance, when angels are at hand to accuse your acts, your thoughts, your desires, be they of day or night? O what an hour that shall be! But before the end arrives, O soul, make haste to cry, “O God, convert me, save me as You alone are compassionate.”
Stricheon from the Orthros Praises
Sunday of the Last Judgement (Second Sunday before Great Lent.
He’s another one being made an example of like the J6 prisoners. Don’t challenge the deep state thugs or the ruling elite or try to expose their crimes, or else.
No court would allow him to prove it.
Excellent post
Prayers for a Rudy revival.
How can Ruby Freeman and her daughter be defamed? They were never famous. $148M award is based on what?
Amounts to a ‘Bill of Attainder’, expressly forbidden by the Constitution.
Dems will split legal hairs and claim it isn’t, but look at the process and end result.
He went from being a hero on 9 - 11 to being an Enemy of the State.
What a farce.
If we dont turn this table on them in 2025 we are all idiots. Use the full force of the government on them and grind them into dust and set them back 100 years or more
Jenna Ellis: Ellis was charged in Arizona after previously being indicted in Georgia and taking a plea deal in that case, and she took another deal in August that requires her to provide “truthful, honest, candid, and complete” testimonies after being suspended from practicing law for three years as a result of her Georgia guilty plea. She was also previously censured for violating rules that bar attorneys from engaging in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation,” with the attorney admitting in court she had made “misrepresentations” while representing Trump after the election that had a “selfish motive.”
Kenneth Chesebro: The attorney, who is described as the architect of the Trump campaign’s “fake electors” scheme—in which GOP officials in battleground states submitted false slates of electors to Congress claiming Trump won—was criminally charged in Wisconsin on one count of forgery, after previously being indicted in Georgia, though he took a plea deal right before his case went to trial.
James Troupis: Troupis was also reportedly charged in Wisconsin in June; another Trump attorney who helped organize the false electors scheme, the lawyer had previously avoided criminal charges in other states and settled a civil lawsuit regarding the electors plot in Wisconsin in March.
John Eastman: Eastman was also charged in Arizona, after already being indicted in Georgia and having 11 charges filed against him by counsel for the California State Bar stemming from his efforts to challenge the election results with Trump. A judge recommended in March that Eastman be disbarred and sanctioned $10,000 for his post-election efforts, which the lawyer intends to appeal.
Christina Bobb: Bobb was charged in Arizona, the first charges the attorney and former One America News anchor—who now serves as an attorney for the Republican National Committee—has so far faced. The lawyer joined Trump’s legal team in November 2020, according to the Washington Post, and the indictment cites a text message that ties the lawyer to the “fake elector” scheme in which GOP officials submitted false slates of electors to Congress claiming Trump won their states.
Jeffrey Clark: Former DOJ attorney Clark, who faced charges from the D.C. bar for aiding Trump’s post-election efforts from within the agency, broke at least one rule of professional conduct related to his actions after 2020 election, a D.C. ethics committee found in a preliminary ruling, with a disciplinary panel ruling in August he should be suspended from practicing law for two years—Clark was also criminally charged in Georgia.
Sidney Powell: A judge dismissed an attempt by the Texas State Bar to discipline Powell in February after the bar alleged Powell’s post-election efforts had violated rules for professional conduct, though she now faces a separate disciplinary investigation in Michigan after being sanctioned for her post-election lawsuit in that state. After advising Trump and bringing her own post-election lawsuits in four states, Powell also still faces defamation lawsuits from Dominion and Smartmatic, a reported federal investigation into her organization’s fundraising arm and was criminally charged in Georgia, though she later reached a plea deal.
Michael Cohen: Trump’s longtime attorney served a three-year sentence in prison and home confinement for tax evasion and campaign finance-related crimes, after he orchestrated a series of “hush money” payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal over allegations they had affairs with Trump.
Alina Habba: Habba, who’s representing Trump in many of his post-presidency legal battles, has been sanctioned multiple times in Trump’s failed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton; she was first ordered to pay with her co-counsel $50,000 in sanctions and $16,274 in attorneys’ fees to one defendant in the case, and she and Trump were then sanctioned in January for nearly $1 million payable to Clinton, her campaign and other Democratic operatives.
Cleta Mitchell: Mitchell, who participated in Trump’s phone call in which he urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the state’s election results, resigned from her law firm Foley & Lardner in January 2021, saying she left the firm due to a “massive pressure campaign” against her from the left to oust her over her associations with Trump.
Other Georgia Attorneys: Attorneys Ray Smith and Robert Cheeley were also indicted as part of the Georgia case against Trump and his allies, after Smith worked on behalf of the Trump campaign in Georgia and Cheeley pushed false claims of election fraud at a legislative hearing in the state.
This.
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