You don’t start a lawsuit being able to prove, but being able to responsibly allege,” Giuliani, who also once served as Manhattan’s US attorney, said last week during a hearing. “You don’t start a lawsuit being able to prove – I mean, you’re very lucky when you do. ![]() Giuliani contended that had the Pennsylvania lawsuit gone to discovery, his team would have been able to gather more evidence that would have supported the voter fraud claims. Much of the disciplinary proceedings focused on the amount of vetting of the voter fraud allegations Giuliani did before the lawsuit was filed. However, after other attorneys on the case sought to withdraw from it, Giuliani ultimately argued the case in front of a federal judge, claiming there there was “widespread, nationwide voter fraud” and that Democrats had plotted to steal the election in Pennsylvania. Giuliani testified that, at first, he played only a limited role in crafting the lawsuit, contributing a few sentences aimed at setting the case up to be potentially consolidated with other lawsuits across the country that the Trump campaign was contemplating bringing. The ethics charges that were brought by Fox focused on a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania that sought to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in the battleground state. The hearing committee announced its finding after holding multiple days of trial-like proceedings, which featured the testimony of Giuliani and others who worked with him on the Trump campaign legal challenges after the 2020 election. Robert Bernius, the chair of the hearing committee, said the DC Bar’s disciplinary counsel who brought the ethics charges, Hamilton Fox, had proven at least one of the charges with “clear and convincing evidence.” ![]() ![]() After another round of hearings in front of the committee, the proceedings then move to the board and eventually to DC’s local court of appeals, the final arbiter on whether Giuliani should be sanctioned.īut the committee’s decision represents a significant step forward in efforts to hold Trump attorneys accountable for their willingness to use the courts to promote his unsubstantiated voter fraud narrative. The decision by the hearing committee for the DC Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility is preliminary and non-binding. False election fraud claims that Rudy Giuliani made when he was representing former President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2020 should make the former New York mayor liable for professional sanctions, an attorney disciplinary committee said Thursday.
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