(NEW YORK) – Rudolph Giuliani, former New York mayor, federal prosecutor and Donald Trump’s legal adviser, was expelled from the state on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 elections.
The decision was handed down by a New York appeals court in Manhattan.
The court ruled that Giuliani would be “disbarred from the practice of law, effective immediately and until further order of this Court, and his name removed from the rolls of attorneys and counselors in the State of New York.”
Giuliani’s spokesman did not immediately respond to an email and a phone call seeking comment Tuesday.
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Giuliani has already had his New York law license suspended for false statements he made after the election.
He was the main spokesman for Trump’s false claims of voter fraud following the 2020 vote, participating in a news conference in front of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping outside Philadelphia on the day the race was called for Democrat Joe Biden on Republican Trump and saying they would challenge what he claimed was a vast conspiracy by Democrats.
The lies surrounding the election results helped push an angry mob of pro-Trump protesters to storm the US Capitol on January 6 in an effort to stop the certification of Biden’s victory.
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