The Disciplinary Adviser, the District of Columbia Bar, has filed charges against the former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York, alleging that he made baseless allegations of voter fraud in Pennsylvania. The lawsuit was filed on June 6 and went public on Friday. What is at stake are allegations made by Giuliani in support of a lawsuit against Trump seeking to overthrow the Pennsylvania election results. The lawsuit, which sought to overturn up to 1.5 million ballots by mail, was rejected by the courts. The lawyer’s office said Giuliani’s conduct violated Pennsylvania’s Code of Professional Conduct “as it conducted a process and advocated for issues without a frivolous legal and factual basis for doing so” and “acted in a manner detrimental to justice. . » The lawyer asked the DC Court of Professional Responsibility to take up the matter. Giuliani has 20 days to respond, according to the deposition. An attempt on Saturday to contact a lawyer for Giuliani was unsuccessful. The move is the latest against Giuliani for his role in Trump’s demystified allegations that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Last June, an appeals court suspended his case in New York because he made false statements while trying to ask the courts to overturn Trump’s loss. A lawyer’s disciplinary committee had asked the court to suspend his leave on the grounds that he had violated the rules of professional conduct as he promoted theories that the election had been rigged. The DC Bar temporarily suspended him last July, although the practical consequences of doing so are questionable, as Giuliani’s legal license in Washington has been inactive since 2002. The news of the lawyer’s action follows the first public hearing by the parliamentary committee that investigated the Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021. Giuliani met for hours with the committee last month.
