Giuliani disbarred in New York over pervasive 2020 election lies, court rules

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The former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump received the decision Tuesday from an appeals court in Manhattan.

The court ruled that Giuliani repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss and thus be “disbarred from the practice of law, effective immediately, and until the further order of this Court, and his name stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law in the State of New York.”

Giuliani’s spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an email and a phone call seeking comment Tuesday.Sign up for NBC DFW newslettersGiuliani has already had his New York law license suspended for false statements he made after the election. He was the primary mouthpiece for Trump’s false claims of election fraud after the 2020 vote, standing at a press conference in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping outside Philadelphia on the day the race was called for Democrat Joe Biden over the Republican Trump and saying they would challenge what he claimed was a vast conspiracy by Democrats.in an effort to stop the certification of Biden’s victory.

 

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