Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., is calling for a disciplinary inquiry into Hunter Biden's legal team after one lawyer connected to the firm was accused of lying.
President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, exits J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Delaware July 26, 2023.
Bengels called the clerk’s office"pretending" to be associated with lawyers linked to the House Republican Ways & Means Committee, which has also been investigating Hunter Biden, the order said. Hunter Biden’s legal team said it was"an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the Court."
Ricketts called on courts in both New York and Washington, D.C., where Hunter Biden’s lawyers are licensed to practice, to launch an ethics investigation into Bengels and lead lawyer Christopher Clark.New York State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. As you know, the cornerstone of the legal profession is ethics. All legal professionals, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, are expected to maintain strict standards for the protection of colleagues, clients, and the court," Ricketts wrote in a letter sent Friday.
"I am asking both the New York Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department and the District of Columbia’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel to take swift action to examine the actions of attorneys Christopher Clark and Jessica L. Bengels."
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