Were Rudy Giuliani and Roy Cohn Both Disbarred on June 24?
Rudy Guliani was disbarred on June 24, 2021  25 years to the day after Roy Cohn was disbarred. There's a difference between having your law license suspended and being disbarred. While Giuliani's law license was suspended on June 24, 2021, he has not been officially disbarred. Former President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani had his law license suspended in New York on June 24, 2021, exactly 25 years after Roy Cohn, a high-powered lawyer who served as an informal adviser to President Richard Nixon, was disbarred. On June 24, 2021, the New York State appellate court suspended the law license of Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and former President Donald Trumps lawyer, saying that he communicated demonstrably false and misleading statement 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 Trumps failed effort at reelection in 2020.  As this news circulated on social media, some pointed out that Giulianis license was suspended exactly 25 years after another famous lawyer, Roy Cohn, was disbarred:  While Cohn was truly disbarred on June 24, 1986, Giuliani was not disbarred on June 24, 2021. Giulianis law license was suspended. While Giuliani may soon be disbarred, this has not happened yet. The New York Times writes:  Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former top federal prosecutor, New York City mayor and lawyer to a president, faces the possibility of disbarment after a New York court ruled on Thursday that he made demonstrably false and misleading statements while fighting the results of the 2020 election on behalf of Donald J. Trump. The New York State appellate court temporarily suspended Mr. Giulianis law license on the recommendation of a disciplinary committee after finding he had sought to mislead judges, lawmakers and the public as he helped shepherd Mr. Trumps legal challenge to the election results. For months, Mr. Giuliani, who served as Mr. Trumps personal lawyer, had argued without merit that the vote had been rife with fraud and that voting machines had been rigged. While Giuliani and Cohn do not share a disbarment date, they do share a client: Trump. In the 1970s, Cohn represented Trump after the U.S. Justice Department accused him of racial discrimination and violating the Fair Housing Act. The matter was eventually settled out of court. Cohn had several other high-profile clients. He rose to prominence in the 1950s, serving as Sen. Joseph McCarthys chief counsel, represented a diverse array of New York City clients, such as former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, mafia boss John Gotti, News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, and would later serve as an informal adviser to president Richard Nixon. On June 24, 1985, Cohn was disbarred. The Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court wrote: Simply stated, the four charges involved alleged dishonest, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation  After a thorough review of the record, we have come to the conclusion that all four charges should be sustained and that respondent should be disbarred.  24 Jun 1986, Tue The Daily Register (Red Bank, New Jersey) Newspapers.com