NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyers’ group filed an ethics complaint against Rudy Giuliani with New York’s courts, calling for him to be investigated and his law license suspended over his work promoting former President Donald Trump’s false allegations over the 2020 election.
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Lawyers Defending American Democracy, which includes former judges and federal attorneys among its members, sent the complaint on Wednesday to the Attorney Grievance Committee of the state’s court system saying Giuliani had violated the rules of professional conduct.
“Giuliani has spearheaded a nationwide public campaign to convince the public and the courts of massive voter fraud and a stolen presidential election,” the complaint said.
The complaint called for the committee to investigate Giuliani’s conduct, including his comments at a rally before rioters stormed into the U.S. Capitol, and to suspend his law license immediately while any investigation is being done.
A message was left with the committee seeking comment. An investigation would be the first step in a process that could lead to a disbarment.
Another complaint against Giuliani was filed earlier in January by New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat, who asked that disbarring Giuliani be taken up for consideration.
The New York State Bar Association separately has opened an inquiry into whether he should be expelled from that organization, which is a voluntary membership organization.
An email seeking comment was sent to Giuliani’s representative.
The New York Times reported that on his radio show on Thursday, Giuliani said “the whole purpose of this is to disbar me from my exercising my right of free speech and defending my client, because they can’t fathom the fact that maybe, just maybe, they may be wrong.”
Crazy Rudy should be disbarred for inciting the deadly riot at the US Capitol, for presenting false statements of election fraud with NO proof in 7 different cases and for legal malpractice. He has destroyed his reputation and is a total fool.
What about the two lawyers (Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis) caught on surveillance camera torching a police car in the anti-Trump riots? Who has called out to have them disbarred? Who has called out to rescind their degrees from their schools? In fact, just the opposite. The news states “56 former prosecutors write to appeals court” to support them!
There’s no way you can disbar a lawyer for claiming some far fetched idea even if he has minimal proof.
If so, you can disbar John Gotti and OJ Simpsons lawyer’s for saying that they were innocent.
Go Rudy go. This man speaks the truth and he has a lot of courage too. We must support him. That is what we are up against the emes vs the sheker. HASHEM help us succeed. AMEIN