Jail-bound lawyer is disbarred

Michael Cohen officially can’t practice law anymore.

A midlevel state appeals court in Manhattan disbarred the prison-bound former personal attorney to President Trump on Tuesday, ruling that he abandoned his oath when he lied to lawmakers.

“[Cohen] ceased to be an attorney upon his federal conviction of making false statements to the United States Congress,” a fivejudge panel wrote, referencing his guilty plea last year to lying to House and Senate committees about a scuttled Trump Tower development in Moscow.

The order recounted the other “serious crimes” he has pleaded guilty to, including tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations.

Cohen obtained his law license in 1992. He can apply for reinstatement to the New York bar after seven years.

Cohen, 52, is set to begin a three-year prison sentence May 6 for the “veritable smorgasbord” of crimes he committed, as a Manhattan federal judge put it at his December sentencing.

A spokeswoman for Cohen did not return a request for comment Tuesday.

The disbarment decision came as Cohen was in Washington testifying behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee about his time as Trump’s personal fixer and legal bulldog. Cohen will be grilled publicly by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. A source familiar with the matter said he will lay out evidence showing his old boss has committed crimes while in office.

In his November guilty plea, Cohen said he lied to Congress about the Moscow deal out of a flawed sense of “loyalty” to Trump. He also directly implicated Trump in the campaign finance crimes, which stem from the 2016 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with the President over a decade ago.