Former New York City mayor and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani reacts at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum during a rally held by Republican presidential candidates and former President Donald Trump on September 18, 2024 in Uniondale, New York, USA.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been formally disbarred from practicing law in the nation’s capital for his efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss based on false claims of widespread fraud. the court ruled Thursday.
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is just the latest blow for the 80-year-old man once known as “America’s Mayor.” Disqualified in New York Less than 3 months ago.
“Rudolph W. Giuliani is hereby disbarred from practicing law in the District of Columbia,” the justices of the Washington, D.C., Supreme Court said in a written statement. 1 page order Published on Thursday.
A spokesperson for Mr. Giuliani did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
Giuliani’s law license was suspended in Washington, D.C., in July 2021 following an active disciplinary proceeding in New York at the time.
Three years later, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that Giuliani “used his prominent position as personal attorney for former President Trump and his campaign to spread false and sometimes “false” claims about the 2020 election in multiple courtrooms. It was found to have been blatantly misused. .
In its July 2 disbarment ruling, the court said Giuliani “intentionally violated some of the most basic tenets of the legal profession” and “actively contributed to the domestic conflict following the 2020 presidential election.” “I have no regrets about that at all.”
The Washington, D.C.-based Attorney Disciplinary Commission had already made a recommendation in 2023. Giuliani will be disbarred About his false election claims.
“He claimed massive election fraud, but there was no evidence of it,” the commission wrote. “By prosecuting that devastating case, Mr. Giuliani, a sworn employee of the court, was stripped of his right to practice law. He should be disbarred.”
On July 25, the D.C. Court of Appeals ordered Giuliani to explain why he should not be disbarred “mutually” with the New York Court of Appeals’ decision.
Mr. Giuliani apparently did not file a response to the order, the D.C. judge wrote Thursday.
Mr. Giuliani was indicted. Georgia and Arizona Regarding state charges related to Trump’s efforts to contest his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. He has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
In July, a federal bankruptcy judge in New York dismissed Mr. Giuliani’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and ordered him to pay hefty civil libel penalties to two Georgia election officials, among other charges. worsened economic debt.
