Phony Lawyer Was Co-Founder of Pro-Trump Campus Group
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 group’s 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. Attorney’s 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
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He’s following in his avatar’s moral footsteps.
LOCK HIM UP!
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