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A Tennessee man charged by New York prosecutors with pretending to be a Manhattan lawyer and taking thousands from would-be clients was the co-founder of Students for Trump, a national group that mobilized college campuses in the run-up to the 2016 election and plans to do so again in 2020.
John Lambert, 23, was arrested last week and charged by Southern District of New York prosecutors with wire fraud for having invented a lawyer persona named Eric Pope that he used to solicit legal work online. ALM reported last week that the fake firm website he created appeared to have attorney biographies cribbed from senior partners at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
Before he allegedly posed as a lawyer, Lambert was in college when he co-founded Students for Trump. As the groups vice chairman, he appeared on NBC and Fox News and shared a stage with the hard-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorneys Office confirmed that a photo of Lambert depicted the man who was charged.
Prosecutors complaint against Lambert said he worked with a co-conspirator who also pretended to be a lawyer and sought legal work online. That co-conspirator, whose identity has not been revealed, has been cooperating with the FBI since April 2018, the complaint said.
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/04/23/man-accused-of-phony-lawyer-act-was-co-founder-of-pro-trump-campus-group/?slreturn=20190324222924
Chin music
(23,002 posts)The kavanaugh club comes to mind. Squee and the gang.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There are openings all the time in the Trump administration.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Trump has been hiring many lawyers. I recommend these guys. Work well with Guliani.
underpants
(182,788 posts)A rich fool and their money.
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)Hes following in his avatars moral footsteps.
LOCK HIM UP!
DFW
(54,370 posts)In what way did that distinguish him from the rest of them?