Alex Van der Zwaan, left, arrives for his sentencing at Federal Court in Washington, D.C., with lawyer William Schwartz, of Cooley, right, on Tuesday, April 3, 2018.Ex-Skadden Associate Loses Law License for Lying in Mueller Probe
Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to a single charge brought by special counsel Robert Mueller and was jailed for 30 days.
July 11, 2019 at 10:23 AM
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The former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom associate who was jailed last year for lying during a probe into the 2016 presidential election has had his license to practice law taken away by the U.K.'s Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) and was ordered to pay costs of $3,878.
A spokesperson for the U.K. legal industry regulator said that the decision came as part of an agreed outcome between the ex-associate, Alexander van der Zwaan, and the Solicitors SDT on June 13.
An SDT document published Thursday said: “The respondent accepts full responsibility, admits that he is solely responsible for his conduct, and is remorseful and has demonstrated a high degree of insight.”
In the U.S. in February 2018, Van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to a single charge brought by U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller. He was jailed for 30 days after he lied about his communications with former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates and an unnamed Ukrainian associate of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, during the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into Russian collusion during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
At the time of the verdict, Van der Zwaan apologized in court, saying: “What I did was wrong.”
Dutch lawyer Van der Zwaan was a senior associate in Skadden's London office until he was fired by the U.S. firm in 2017.
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