A Journey Of Ls: Rudy Giuliani Disbarred In New York Amid Bankruptcy Because Of ‘The Big Lie’

Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, departs from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty

UPDATED: 12:30 p.m. ET, July 2, 2024

Originally published April 28, 2021

The consequences of showing blind loyalty to former President Donald Trump continue to reveal themselves in the most amazing of ways.

Rudy Giuliani‘s journey of losses since he tried and failed to illegally overturn the 2020 election results is showing no signs of ending anytime soon.

That truth was resoundingly punctuated on Tuesday after it was reported that the man once revered [by a certain portion of the U.S. populace] as “America’s Mayor” is no longer allowed to practice law in his hometown.

NEWS: Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York for his efforts. to subvert the 2020 election. https://t.co/AmlA9Xit1B pic.twitter.com/yKxPbEKw9q

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 2, 2024

The New York Supreme Court announced its decision on Monday following a months-long review of Giuliani’s law license after it was suspended in New York and the District of Columbia.

“The disciplinary charges stem from the allegations that respondent communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers, and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020,” the New York Supreme Court wrote in its decision. “These false 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.”

As a result, the Court continued later in its decision, Giuliani “is 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.”

Read the full decision here.

To add insult to metaphorical injury, Giuliani on Monday made a desperate play to keep his future income following his bankruptcy filing in the wake of a federal jury ordering him to pay two former election workers nearly $150 million for defaming them over 2020 election lies.

The New York Times reported that Giuliani — who “owes about 20 people and businesses about $153 million, including $148 million to the two election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss” — hasn’t produced a repayment plan.

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It’s been a rough go for the lawyer formerly known as “America’s Mayor” who was previously hired to defend Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election and espoused debunked conspiracy theories about non-existent election fraud that helped fuel the anti-government sentiment responsible for the Capitol riots. For example, in addition to menacing Black women election workers, Giuliani made false claims about Democrats rigging the election with malfunctioning voting machines.

Since being named as a part of the Fulton County district attorney’s investigation into election interference, Giuliani has been the recipient of a seemingly neverending string of losses.

In 2022, a disciplinary panel recommended Giuliani’s disbarment stemming from his “frivolous” and “destructive” defense of “the big lie” that President Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win the 2020 election.

“[Giuliani] claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it,” the Board on Professional Responsibility, part of the D.C. Bar, wrote in its recommendation. “By prosecuting that destructive case Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right to practice law.”

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives during a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2021, in New York City. | Source: Pool / Getty

Aside from the latest trouble Giuliani has found himself in, separate investigators previously inquired for two years into whether he had any illegal dealings lobbying Ukraine officials in 2019 for information regarding Trump’s adversaries including Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The feds were also looking into whether Giuliani attempted to undermine the former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch.

Prosecutors eventually charged his Ukrainian associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, in 2019.

Yet and still, instances like finally admitting he made false claims about the 2020 election only draw further attention to Giuliani’s steady public fall from grace, much of which was already very apparent to Black communities who were privy to his inner workings after five decades of languishing in the political spotlight.

At the height of his praise, Giuliani was heralded for helping to take down New York City’s mafia bosses in the ’80s and then successfully won his bid for mayor in the 1990s. After the September 11 attacks, Giuliani was considered “America’s Mayor,” only to morph into an obstructer of democracy as one of the main lie-spreaders around Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.

From spreading racist conspiracy theories to upholding harmful policies like stop-and-frisk in New York City, Giuliani is seemingly headed toward a different hall of fame amid desperate and disingenuous attempts at revisionist histories to save him from his continued, spiraling downfall.

Keep reading to see the fine print details of Rudy Giuliani’s ongoing journey of spectacular Ls.

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