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douglas9

(5,814 posts)
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 09:22 AM Dec 2022

Trump attorney Jenna Ellis of Colorado under investigation for alleged misconduct

Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who represented former President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn the 2020 election, is under investigation by the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel.

Ellis has been the target of formal complaints regarding what critics characterized as her professional misconduct connected to Trump’s effort to reverse the results of a free and fair election. In May a complaint from the States United Democracy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, asked Colorado Attorney Regulation Counsel Jessica Yates to investigate Ellis for multiple alleged violations of professional rules and impose possible “substantial professional discipline.”

“The status of this complaint is that it is pending with our office,” Yates wrote to Newsline Friday in an emailed response to questions about the complaint.

The complaint had previously been reported. This is believed to be the first time the existence of an investigation of Ellis has been reported.

Attempts to reach Ellis for comment Friday, at “The Jenna Ellis Show” and elsewhere, were not successful.

https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/trump-jenna-ellis-under-investigation/

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Trump attorney Jenna Ellis of Colorado under investigation for alleged misconduct (Original Post) douglas9 Dec 2022 OP
Disbar them all malaise Dec 2022 #1
Naw *can't* be!1 - sarcasm UTUSN Dec 2022 #2
Merry Christmas, Jenna NBachers Dec 2022 #3
She has a show? LiberalFighter Dec 2022 #4
Same Question ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #9
it is basically just a podcast she produces from her basement. Takket Dec 2022 #14
I am not surprised, she was right in the middle of everything. fightforfreedom Dec 2022 #5
Please disbar this embarrassment to CO. niyad Dec 2022 #6
She looks so evil in the picture! Happy New Year, Jenna... littlemissmartypants Dec 2022 #7
The Giuliani fart catcher. Historic NY Dec 2022 #8
This may be another prong of the investigation that snagged Lindell BumRushDaShow Dec 2022 #10
complaint 'pending' since May .. stopdiggin Dec 2022 #11
Exactly. Litigation isn't a movie or TV series. Note a significant Hortensis Dec 2022 #12
absolutely. and I am not among the "doing nothing" stopdiggin Dec 2022 #13
Well, at least "under investigation" is apparently new info. Hortensis Dec 2022 #15
Legally she's a lightweight, but she still deserves to be sanctioned FakeNoose Dec 2022 #16
I assume DOJ is also investigating her miyazaki Dec 2022 #17
Jenna Ellis is revealed to have worked in traffic court before being fired as a prosecutor LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #18

ProfessorGAC

(76,706 posts)
9. Same Question
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 11:39 AM
Dec 2022

She was a nobody before. Now, she's a disgraced & acknowledged incompetent nobody.
Who listens?

Takket

(23,715 posts)
14. it is basically just a podcast she produces from her basement.
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 02:13 PM
Dec 2022

Not an actual TV show per se.

 

fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
5. I am not surprised, she was right in the middle of everything.
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 10:53 AM
Dec 2022

A lot of Trump lawyers are going to lose their law license and their freedom.

littlemissmartypants

(33,615 posts)
7. She looks so evil in the picture! Happy New Year, Jenna...
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 11:16 AM
Dec 2022

Thanks for sharing this, douglas9.

❤️

BumRushDaShow

(169,761 posts)
10. This may be another prong of the investigation that snagged Lindell
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 11:41 AM
Dec 2022
who was associated with Tina Peters in the big lie and subsequent security breach of voting equipment.

In fact - this is informative.

At the time of that latter article, she was trying to get out of testifying in GA for their grand jury on the election fiasco there -

Jenna Ellis, Tina Peters And Many CO Republicans Participating in Election Fraud Conspiracy Conference

by Erik Maulbetsch
posted on
August 19, 2022

(snip)

On Tuesday a Colorado judge ordered Ellis to comply with a Georgia grand jury’s subpoena requiring her to appear for questioning about her role in the Trump campaign’s attempt to overturn that state’s 2020 election results. During the hearing Ellis told the judge she has travel planned to Missouri this week.

Ellis appears on a promotional image for the event, as part of its opening session, “How We Got Here.” She appears alongside Dr. Douglas Frank, a former high school math teacher who claims to have discovered an algorithm that hackers inserted into nearly every election machine in the country in order to steal the election. Frank conducted some of his earliest presentations in Colorado back in April of last year.

(snip)

https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2022/08/jenna-ellis-tina-peters-among-co-republicans-participating-in-election-fraud-conspiracy-conference/48179/


Didn't realize that CO was where she was on the bar... This should have happened a long time ago like when it finally got going with Ghouliani (in NY and now D.C. with the latter jurisdiction's recommendation of disbarment, which will be decided sometime by early March).

stopdiggin

(15,463 posts)
11. complaint 'pending' since May ..
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 01:06 PM
Dec 2022

wake me up when ...

(as I write this, having a thought - possible that this is being slow rolled deliberately, so not as to interfere/undercut other ongoing investigation? (like FBI?)

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. Exactly. Litigation isn't a movie or TV series. Note a significant
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 01:54 PM
Dec 2022

update, if inclined, and then leave it to those working on it until another SIGNIFICANT development occurs, or for the "finale," whichever. For me, the headline for her "finale" will do.

More and more of the attorneys involved with tRump and the attempted insurrection are facing legal and/or professional consequences.

NYT: A dark joke has begun circulating among lawyers following the many legal travails of former President Donald J. Trump: MAGA actually stands for “making attorneys get attorneys.”

stopdiggin

(15,463 posts)
13. absolutely. and I am not among the "doing nothing"
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 02:08 PM
Dec 2022

"taking too long" crowd. I am however interested in real developments. And - could be mistaken, but I don't find much here.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Well, at least "under investigation" is apparently new info.
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 02:22 PM
Dec 2022

This is a state attorney regulation body, though, not the state AG or federal prosecutor. I won't hold my breath for the denoument of her drama since my impression has been that usually an attorney could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, at most a temporary suspension of their license.

Still, each new report that authorities at any level are going after these people tends to brighten my day.

FakeNoose

(41,637 posts)
16. Legally she's a lightweight, but she still deserves to be sanctioned
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 02:30 PM
Dec 2022

... if not disbarred. Yes, she's part of the Stop the Steal conspiracy and she broke the law.

miyazaki

(2,650 posts)
17. I assume DOJ is also investigating her
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 03:32 PM
Dec 2022

Her Jan 6 committee deposition consists of fifty pages of her pleading the fifth.







LetMyPeopleVote

(179,869 posts)
18. Jenna Ellis is revealed to have worked in traffic court before being fired as a prosecutor
Sun Dec 25, 2022, 06:52 PM
Dec 2022

This lady is a bad lawyer



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9019571/Trump-lawyer-Jenna-Ellis-worked-traffic-court-fired-prosecutor.html
Jenna Ellis, a lawyer on President Donald Trump's 'elite strike force team,' worked in traffic court before being fired as a prosecutor and hasn't paid bar fees, a series of profiles revealed about her.

Ellis, 36, found fame on Fox News defending the president before joining his legal team's effort to overturn the election.

She was subject to profiles in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, who questioned her billing herself as a 'constitutional lawyer' and traces her rapid rise from the Colorado legal system to the president's defender.

The pieces question her credentials to be an election lawyer as Trump and his team claim voter fraud, which they have yet to show proof for, and try to overturn the results.

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