They ultimately failed to destroy me and failed in their attempt to deprive me of my bar license. judge on Wednesday sanctioned two lawyers who brought a lawsuit alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and his supporters. At least 17 of them have been slapped by judges, mostly for litigation challenging elections. On Twitter Wednesday, Ellis said: “This was politically motivated from the start from Democrats and Never Trumpers. Lawyers Sanctioned over Fantastical Suit Alleging 2020 U.S. Lawyers representing Trump keep getting sanctioned by courts. Through her attorney, Michael Melito, she stipulated to both the findings that she’d made misrepresentations and the censure.
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The District of Columbia’s bar association disciplinary counsel in December called for the suspension of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s law license for pursuing a baseless lawsuit challenging Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.Įllis is based in Washington, DC, but is from Colorado and has also practiced in the state. Nine lawyers in Michigan in 2021 were ordered to pay $175,000 in sanctions for a sham suit seeking to overturn the election in that swing state. Large, the disciplinary judge in the case.Įllis becomes the latest pro-Trump attorney penalized for their attempts to overturn the 2020 election. “Respondent, through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” wrote Bryon M. Those falsehoods helped fuel the attack on the U.S. On November 20, 2020, Ellis appeared on the Newsmax show of former Trump spokesman Sean Spicer and said: “with all those states (Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia) combined we know that the election was stolen from President Trump and we can prove that.”Įllis was one of several prominent conservative voices who, in the final weeks of 2020, echoed Trump’s lies that the election was stolen from him. 15 that Trump was “the true and proper victor.” 5, 2020 that “we have over 500,000 votes (in Arizona) that were cast illegally” and telling the conservative network Newsmax on Dec. Judge suggests ‘Kraken’ lawsuits were meant to ‘make the public believe’ Trump’s false election claims. The statements include claiming on Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News show on Dec. Shakhnazarian’s appeal of that ruling is still pending.DENVER (AP) - Jenna Ellis, a former attorney for Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and a prominent conservative media figure, has been censured by Colorado legal officials after admitting she made repeated false statements about the 2020 presidential election.Įllis acknowledged making 10 “misrepresentations” on television and Twitter during Trump’s fight to stay in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, according to the censure from the office of attorney regulation counsel in Colorado, where Ellis is from. In September, Borrok sided with the 51-year-old songstress when he sanctioned Shakhnazarian for destroying two videos, WhatsApp messages and an old cellphone that all could have helped Carey in her case. The terms of the settlement were not made public and Mariah Carey’s lawyer declined to comment. The “Always Be My Baby” crooner claimed Shaknazarian - who was canned in 2017 - secretly recorded embarrassing “personal activities” and in some cases “intimate” videos of her and then threatened to release them if the pop star didn’t give her $8 million.Ĭarey also claimed Shakhnazarian violated a non-disclosure agreement that she signed when she was hired in 2015. Shakhnazarian’s lawyers did not immediately return a request for comment. The terms of the settlement were not made public and Carey’s lawyer declined to comment. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Andrew Borrok closed out the 2019 lawsuit that the “Fantasy” singer brought against her former assistant Lianna “Azarian” Shakhnazarian by simply writing, “Case settled,” according to a decision from Wednesday. Mariah Carey has settled her $3 million lawsuit against her ex-assistant - accused of trying to blackmail the diva with secretly recorded videos, new court papers show. Nick Cannon reacts to exes Mariah Carey and Kim Kardashian’s viral TikTok
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