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.
Wow !
Thank you.
I knew about Powell and a couple of others, but not all of them.
Unbelievable.
The consequence The judge told opposing counsel, “don't do that again.” To which I responded, that the judge's decision “stands as a clarion call to all that perpetuating a fraud upon the court is not only tolerated but encouraged. No fines, no bar referral, no consequences…With your decision, I might as well cancel my very expensive Westlaw subscription and make up my own case law.” The Judge chuckled and called the next case.
It’s bad enough no federal or state judge would even consider the conclusive evidence supporting the charges of election irregularities and outright violations of election law that were perpetrated in 2020 against Donald Trump by the Democrat party.
One would think slamming the door so conclusively on all of the cases would have been sufficient to protect the perpetrators of this fraud. But no. The compromised court system in this country had to take it a step farther and go after the attorneys themselves.
So now we have not only our local police George Lloyd-ed into submission on a double standard for law enforcement (one for blacks, one for whites) we also now have our attorneys Joe Biden-ed into submission on a double standard for litigating election law violations (one for the left, one for the right).
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