Paul Manafort Disbarred by D.C. Top Court for Witness Tampering

Paul Manafort Jr. can’t practice law in the District of Columbia because he was convicted of a crime of moral turpitude, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled May 9.

Manafort pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice “by tampering with witnesses while on pre-trial release,” the District’s high court said.

The particular statute he violated, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1), is like other subsections on evidence and witness tampering that the court has found to be crimes of moral turpitude, it said.

“Because respondent has been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude, the mandatory sanction imposed by statute ...