Former New York City Mayor and former Trump lawyer Rudy Julian attends a rally for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on September 18, 2024 in Uniondale, New York, USA. Ni reacted.
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is formally disbarred from practicing law in the U.S. capital over his attempts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, a court ruled Thursday. The reason was widespread fraud based on false accusations.
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is just the latest blow to the 80-year-old once known as “America’s Mayor.” Disbarred in New York Less than three months ago.
“Rudolph W. Giuliani is hereby disbarred from practicing law in the District of Columbia,” the District of Columbia Supreme Court justices wrote in a statement. One page order Open Thursday.
A spokesman for Giuliani did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
Giuliani’s law license was suspended in Washington in July 2021 due to disciplinary proceedings then ongoing in New York.
Three years later, a New York appeals court found that Giuliani “blatantly abused his prominent position as the personal attorney for former President Trump and his campaign” by spreading false claims about the 2020 election in multiple courts, sometimes with “perjury.” . .
In its July 2 disbarment ruling, the court wrote that Giuliani “willfully violated some of the most fundamental principles of the legal profession” and “actively contributed to ethnic conflict following the 2020 presidential election, for which he No regrets at all.”
In 2023, a Washington-based lawyer disciplinary panel has recommended Giuliani disbarred About his false election claims.
“He claims there was massive election fraud without evidence,” the panel wrote. “By prosecuting this devastating case, Mr. Giuliani, as a sworn officer of the court, has forfeited his right to practice law. He should be exonerated.” Disbarred.”
On July 25, the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals ordered Giuliani to explain why he should not be “reciprocally” disbarred as a result of the New York Court of Appeals’ ruling.
The D.C. judge wrote Thursday that Giuliani apparently failed to respond to the order.
Giuliani indicted Georgia and Arizona Trump faces state charges over his attempts to challenge his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. He has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
In July, a federal bankruptcy judge in New York dismissed Giuliani’s Chapter 11 case, exacerbating his ongoing financial debts, which include paying huge civil defamation fines to two Georgia election workers.
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