In Re Abrams
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
ON REHEARING EN BANC
SCHWELB, Associate Judge.
This matter is before us on the recommendation of the Board on Professional Responsibility that Elliott Abrams, Esq., a member of our Bar, and formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, be suspended from the practice of law in the District of Columbia for a period of one year. The Board concluded, on the basis of extensive evidentiary findings by the Hearing Committee, that Abrams had engaged in “dishonesty, deceit or misrepresentation” by giving false (but unsworn) testimony to three Congressional committees regarding the…
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