An attorney disciplinary committee in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday backed a proposed one-year license suspension for a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty last year to doctoring an email tied to the surveillance of an adviser to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
to probation in January after pleading guilty in D.C. federal court to one felony charge of making a false statement. Clinesmith formerly was an assistant general counsel in the national security and cyber law branch of the FBI's office of general counsel. He was providing legal support to an FBI team in 2016 investigating any coordination between Trump campaign officials and Russia.
Felony convictions for crimes that involve "moral turpitude" lead to automatic disbarment in D.C. For other convictions, even felonies, there are ancillary proceedings over whether and for how long a member of the bar should lose their ability to practice law.a one-year suspension, retroactive to start in August 2020, with the D.C. bar office of disciplinary counsel. A separate disciplinary deal in Michigan, which is under review, would suspend Clinesmith there for two years.
The D.C. disciplinary hearing committee, a component of the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility,in July about the negotiated one-year license suspension. Clinesmith was admitted to the D.C. bar in 2008. Bar sanctions stemming from a conviction for making a false statement often involve a one-year suspension, the committee said.
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