UPDATE

Update on Ethics Complaints Against Kenneth Chesboro 

June 28, 2021

Jun 30, 2023

 Photo Credit: Alyssa Pointer/Pool via REUTERS
 

Kenneth Chesebro, who served as a lawyer for the Trump campaign in the aftermath of the 2020 election, was disbarred in New York last week after a decision by a panel of the NY Supreme Court. 

This is a new development, following LDAD's ethics complaint with the NY Grievance Committee on October 12, 2022, and its a supplement with an analysis of the effect of the Georgia felony conviction on October 30, 2023.  

The Court's decision was based on Mr. Chesebro's guilty plea in 2023 to felony charges in Georgia resulting from his role as the "architect" of the fake elector plan to reverse the electoral college outcome in the 2020 presidential election. In its decision, the Court rejected Mr. Chesebro's arguments contesting the application of the NY rule that a felony conviction in any jurisdiction results in suspension or disbarment in NY. The Court concluded that disbarment was the appropriate sanction because, in addition to having committed a "serious crime," Mr. Chesebro's conduct "strikes at the heart of the administration of justice" and "undercuts the very notion of our constitutional democracy that he, as an attorney, swore an oath to uphold."  

Read prior LDAD documents related to Kenneth Chesebro:

• LDAD Files Ethics Complaint Against Kenneth John Chesebro
• LDAD Files Ethics Complaint in California Against Kenneth Chesebro
  
• LDAD Submits Supplemental Filings to its Ethics Complaints Against Kenneth Chesebro
  
• LDAD Responds to Atty. Chesebro's Guilty Plea with Supplemental Ethics Complaints
  

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