A recently-disqualified federal prosecutor previously installed by President Donald Trump was found by the Attorney Grievance Committee to have engaged in “professional misconduct,” according to Adam Klasfeld’s All Rise News.
The allegations against John Sarcone, who served as a campaign lawyer for Trump before being appointed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York, come after he was barred from serving in that role after federal courts found he was installed in a way that violated the law.
“The Attorney Grievance Committee of New York’s Appellate Division, Third Department asserted that it ‘took appropriate action’ on the misconduct,” said the report. “‘With this action the matter is concluded,’ the Committee’s chair Elena Jaffe Tastensen wrote in a single-page letter. ‘We regret that we cannot be more specific about the nature of the action taken and in accordance with Judiciary Law §90(10) and Atty. Disc. Rules §1240.18, all papers, records and documents of a disciplinary investigation and proceeding are sealed and deemed private and confidential,’ she added.”
All Rise News could not confirm either the nature of the misconduct or how, if at all, he was punished for it.
Sarcone, who was put in charge of a politically-motivated Trump administration investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, previously infuriated federal judges in the area by falsely claiming they had extended his term as acting U.S. attorney had been extended, when they had not.
Additionally, Sarcone got caught up in scandal after he falsely claimed that an unauthorized immigrant, Saul Morales-Garcia, “attempted to murder him outside a hotel in Albany, but surveillance video revealed that the interaction fell short of the then-U.S. Attorney’s allegations … In filing his police report, Sarcone listed a home address that appeared to be a boarded-up house, leading critics to argue that he falsely claimed residence in the district to keep his job. Sarcone denied the allegations.”
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