Rudy Giuliani’s law license suspended in NY over statements on voter fraud
Rudy Giuliani’s law license was temporarily suspended on Thursday by a panel of New York judges who found he made “false and misleading statements” related to voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The ruling from the appeals court said there was 💯“u🦹ncontroverted evidence” Giuliani made false statements while he was acting as legal counsel for former President Donald Trump.
“These fa🔥lse statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client,” 💫the ruling states.
“We conclude that respon🎃dent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the pra🌟ctice of law, pending further proceedings before the Attorney Grievance Committee,” they added.
Giuliani compared the s𒊎uspension to Soviet Communism.
“It’s a complete invasion of my First Amendme🐓nt rights and my rights as an attorney, I’m allowed to have a client,” Giuliaཧni told The Post.
“President Trump is not allowed to have a lawyer, of course it’s a partisan hit. I didn’t do anything wrong. There’s nothing I said that a witness didn’t tell me. We’re getting to be like East𝔉 Germany,” he added.
Trump also issued a statement blasting the court’s decision.
“Can you believe that New York wants to strip Rudy Giuliani, a great American Patriot, of his law license because he has been fighting what has already been proven to be a Fraudulent Election?” Trump said. “The greatest Mayor in the history of New York City, the Eliot Ness of his generation, one of the greatest crime fighters our Country has ever known, and this is what the Radical Left does to him.
“All of New York is out of control, crime is at an all-time high—it’s nothing but a Witch Hunt, and they should be ashamed of themselves. TAKE BACK AMERICA!”
Giuliani, 77, made a number of false allegations about voter fraud after Trump lost✱ the presidential election to Joe Biden, includin𝔍g on radio programs and in other public statements, the five-judge panel ruled.
The jurists highlighted a number of examples when Giuliani leveled false claims about the number of absentee ballots counted in Pennsylvania💛 after Biden had carried the state, which Trump won in 2016.
“Respondent made these false claims during his November 8, 2020 radio program, Uncovering the Truth with Rudy꧟ Giuliani & Dr. Maria Ryan, during a November 25, 2020 meeting of the Republican State Senate Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania … and he repeated it during an episode of Steve Bannon’s the War Room: Pandemic podcast on December 24, 2020,” the ruling states.
In a video on Twitter, Giuliani’s son Andrew, who is running for New York governor, said 𒁏he was “infuriated” by the decision and called it a political 💧ploy by Democractic judges.
Giuliani had a distinguished career as a lawyer and prosecutor in New York prior to running for mayor as a Republican in the 19ও90s and serving until ꦗthe early 2000s.
For six years in the 1980s, Giuliani served as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, bringing a number of high-profile cases during his tenure, including the “commission case” against a number of mafia꧙ figur🥀es in the city.
Investigators from the Southern District of New York are now investigating Giuliani for allegedly failing to register as a fo𝓀reign agent while lobbying on behalf of Ukrainian nationals during the 2020 presidential campaign.
He was admitted to practi🍌ce law in New York in 1969, accordiꦇng to online records.
The ruling on the temporary suspension was handed down by a panel ꦛwith the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, First Judicial Department and en🍌tered on Thursday.
Giuliani will have the right to request a post-suspension hearing, which he will have to request in ꧅the next 20 days.