The license from attorney by rudy Giuliani in New York state it was suspended after a state appeals court found that she had lied by arguing that her client, former President Donald Trump, had the US elections stolen.
GiulianiThe 77-year-old former Manhattan prosecutor was sanctioned for making unsubstantiated claims in court, testimony before legislators, press conferences and other media appearances about voter fraud, according to information from Reuters.
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The Manhattan Appellate Division, made up of five judges, found evidence of the “demonstrably false and misleading” statements that the attorney he did by trying to overturn the presidential election, in which Democrat Joe Biden was victorious.
“These false statements were made to improperly reinforce the narrative that, due to widespread electoral fraud, the victory in the 2020 US presidential election was stolen from his client (Donald Trump),” the court was quoted as saying by Reuters.
We conclude that the defendant’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and justifies the provisional suspension of the practice of law.
Manhattan Appellate Division
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License suspension takes effect immediately
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The court noted that the attorney and the former mayor of New York made numerous false statements about voting in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, including that hundreds of thousands of absentee or deceased votes had been improperly counted.
He highlighted a hearing held in the Pennsylvania court on November 17, in which Giuliani alleged widespread electoral fraud, despite the fact that his formal written complaint on behalf of Trump did not mention it.
According to Reuters, the court also rejected the argument of Giuliani that the investigation into his conduct violated his constitutional right to freedom of expression and suggested that the suspension could be permanent.
Suspending your license it takes effect immediately, pending new procedures before a complaints committee of lawyers that had recommended it.
On this exact date in 1986 Roy Cohn was disbarred in New York. 35 years later Rudy Giuliani’s law license was suspended in NY.
June 24 is not a good day to be an attorney for Donald Trump, but it’s a wonderful day for everyone else.https://t.co/hC1dACs7XV pic.twitter.com/OfJH2EW8xa
— Senator Brad Hoylman (@bradhoylman) June 24, 2021
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In addition, federal prosecutors in Manhattan have been examining the businesses of the attorney in Ukraine, including whether he violated lobbying laws by acting as an unregistered foreign agent while working with Trump.
Giuliani began representing Donald Trump in April 2018, when special counsel Robert Mueller was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
His career in law began in 1969, he worked in the Department of Justice during the Ronald Reagan Administration and in 1983 he was appointed district attorney for the Manhattan district, in New York, where he was mayor between 1994 and 2002.
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