On December 15, 2023, in Washington, the United States, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani left the U.S. District Court after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation case.
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Rudy Giuliani’s New York His law license was revoked on Tuesday amid accusations that he aided former President Donald Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Giuliani’s law license remains under review in Washington, D.C.
“The disciplinary charges stem from allegations that the defendants, in their capacity as attorneys for former President Donald J. .
Giuliani was first admitted to practice law in New York in June 1969.
“Mr. Giuliani is obviously disappointed with this decision. We are weighing our appeal options,” Giuliani’s attorney, Barry Cummings, said in a statement to NBC News.
The New York appeals court cited various false statements made by Giuliani that it said were made to help Trump persuade the court to invalidate the 2020 election results.
Examples cited by the court in the filing include Giuliani’s claims of “widespread election fraud” in Philadelphia; that ballots were smuggled from Long Island, New York; that thousands of non-U.S. citizens voted in Arizona; and that Dominion Voting Systems machines were hacked in Georgia. manipulate.
The former New York mayor has been embroiled in legal action over many of those comments.
The former Trump lawyer was served with a criminal indictment in May related to a failed conspiracy to overturn Arizona’s 2020 election at his birthday party.
In December, Giuliani was ordered to pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers on defamation charges. Giuliani falsely claimed that election workers committed ballot fraud, one of the misleading claims he made allegedly to aid Trump’s failed efforts to invalidate the 2020 election results.
Shortly after the verdict, Giuliani filed for bankruptcy protection.
— CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger contributed to this report.
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