Kenneth Chesebro was removed from office by a state appeals court in New York on Thursday entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors pursuing a 2020 election interference case against the former president Donald Trumpin law there.
In is a verdict On Thursday, the court found that Chesebro’s felony conviction in Fulton County, Georgia, for his efforts to overturn Trump’s election loss in that state, “definitely meets the definition of a serious crime in this state” and upheld the ban. from the practice of law in New York.
According to the decision, his suspension took effect “immediately and until further notice of the court.”
Chesebro was indicted in Fulton County in August 2023 along with Trump and 17 other defendants in an effort to overturn Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden in the state. Trump pleaded not guilty.
Chesebro was indicted on seven counts, and in a plea deal with prosecutors, he admitted to conspiracy to commit false documents last October and agreed to testify in the case.
Chesebro, the indictment alleges, helped develop a strategy to create fake pro-Trump voter lists in Georgia and other states where Biden lost.
An attorney for Chesebro did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday evening.
After Chesebro’s settlement was reached last year, his attorney, Scott Grubman, said it was inaccurate to characterize Chesebro as the architect of a scheme to subvert democracy.
Some legal groups filed ethics complaints against Chesebro in 2022 with the New York Supreme Court’s attorney grievance committee.
One group, Project 65, which cited a fraudulent voter scheme and argued in its complaint that there was a “serious risk” that Chesebro would repeat the behavior unless the New York Supreme Court took action, praised Chesebro’s suspension. on Thursday.
“Ken Chesebro, whose law license has been suspended, should be a stark warning of what will happen if lawyers violate their oath to knowingly lie as officers of the court,” said Michael Teter, the group’s executive director.
Chesebro was admitted to the New York bar in 2007. He is also licensed to practice in Massachusetts, California, Texas, Florida and Illinois, the court noted.
His suspension is the latest example of lawyers facing discipline for their efforts to reverse Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer who helped Trump file legal challenges to the 2020 results, has lost his law license. New York in July and was dis prohibited in Washington last month. Jenna Ellis was another Trump advocate bannin May from the practice of law in Colorado for three years.