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WASHINGTON — Former top White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby, left, was banned Thursday from practicing law in the nation’s capital because of his perjury conviction in the case of a CIA operative’s leaked identity.
The disbarment order had been expected. “When a member of the bar is convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude, disbarment is mandatory,” the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled. The Board on Professional Responsibility found last year that Libby’s conviction for lying to the FBI about the case of former CIA operative Valerie Plame amounted to “crimes that involve moral turpitude.”
