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Disbar Trump lawyer Stefan Passantino

Cassidy Hutchinson

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 28: Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the January 6th insurrection in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump’s one-time ethics lawyer is facing a call for disbarment in the District of Columbia over his representation of a former White House aide who turned out to be a key witness in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Stefan Passantino represented Cassidy Hutchinson in multiple hearings before the now-disbanded House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. As Law&Crime previously reported, Hutchinson told the committee that Passantino discouraged her from being completely transparent and forthcoming with congressional investigators.

“The less you remember the better,” he allegedly said according to Hutchinson, discouraging her to review her calendars in preparation for her testimony before the committee.

Passantino also allegedly kept Hutchinson in the dark as to who was funding his representation of her, and, according to her testimony, promised her a job in the former president’s orbit.

Now, a coalition of lawyers, legal scholars, and legal industry leaders have called for Passantino to be disbarred.

“The facts that have been outlined in this document reveal an array of violations of the District of Columbia Rules of Professional Responsibility that is breathtaking in its range,” the 22-page complaint, filed with the District of Columbia Office of Disciplinary Counsel on Monday, says. “We recognize that disbarment is an extreme sanction, that it is not the typical remedy for simple conflict of interest violations, and that it is often applied only after other sanctions have not deterred misconduct.”

The complaint was filed by the group Lawyers Defending American Democracy, which was launched in 2019 in response to what it described as Trump’s “attacks on [] core American democratic principles” that “undermine” the foundations of the Constitution and “threaten the rule of law.” The group says it has more than 14,000 lawyers in its ranks.

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