Coalition Of Lawyers Push To Disbar MAGA Attorney Who Pressured Hutchinson To Stay Loyal To Trump

Thirty-plus prominent legal figures filed an ethics complaint with D.C.’s Board on Professional Responsibility on Monday to revoke Trump-world attorney Stefan Passantino’s license to practice law, claiming that he tried to influence his former client Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House Jan. 6 select committee.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1450115

How many abused women have heard similar things in the past. He deserves more than disbarment.

49 Likes

I hear it as “We all know you want to do the right thing, sweetheart. So do the right thing. Capisce?”

Disbar him…

35 Likes

Look up “slime-ball, lawyer” in the dictionary
you will likely see -

Stefan Passantino

image

27 Likes

Smarmy Mr. Passantino needs to be taught a lesson and made an example of. Nail him.

27 Likes

Ross Garber, one of Passantino’s lawyers, described the complaint as a “transparent effort to smear” Passantino and undermined its validity because it was not filed by Cassidy herself.

That’s sounds like an invitation for Hutchinson to file a complaint to me, one that I would hope she will accept with alacrity.

29 Likes

Future Ross Garber: "But, this latest complaint was filed by Cassidy Hutchinson. What does she know about the law?"

26 Likes

Oh and it is not at all like he just stubbed his toe on this one thing - he is an experienced & long practicing violator of ethical standards

Stefan Passantino - slime all the way to the very core …

note this - Published Jun. 29, 2017

19 Likes

He has that smarmy 2000 Brooks Brothers riot vibe about him.

11 Likes

He just needs that Gordon Gecko greasy hair that is, ironically, so popular amongst these slimeballs.

image

9 Likes

“Trump White House ethics attorney.” Some job titles just offend all reason.

40 Likes

It’s the viscosity that’s important. Doesn’t matter if it’s slime or grease.

12 Likes

The House Jan. 6 Committee was aware of efforts from Trump and his allies to intimate intimidate witnesses during last year’s investigation.

Fix this, please

6 Likes

Does any big-time lawyer ever get disbarred? What’s the rate of disbarment per year, nationwide?

7 Likes

Thank you for pointing that out.

1 Like

Coalition Of Lawyers Push To Disbar MAGA Attorney Who Pressured Hutchinson To Stay Loyal To Trump

Translation: OMG he got caught! Throw him off the sleigh!

7 Likes

A) Hutchinson is ~25 years old and needs to get on with her life, which involves rebuilding her career as a capitol staffer in traditional GOP circles. B) Takes money to file a complaint that will stick. C) She plausibly has more credibility as subpoenaed witness and aggrieved victim than she does as bar complaint plaintiff.

18 Likes

Just a little dab 'ill do ya.

8 Likes

Avenatti?

10 Likes

Varies from state to state. Every state has its own attorney discipline structure with widely varying degrees of strictness. NC tends to be a pretty hard core state on initiating proceedings but you really have to work at it to get yourself disbarred on your first trip to the grievance committee. They tend to hand out lesser sentences first-private reprimand, public reprimand, suspension, and then disbarrment.

Unless you make a practice over decades of abusing your position to coerce young female clients and staff to submit to spankings, touch a fifteen year old girl on the inner thigh in a hot tub or steal or misappropriate one single penny of client funds in the firm trust account. Those are all one-strike offenses. Major felonies involving dishonesty too, of course.

12 Likes