The New York court system's Inspector General's office has concluded that the disbarment of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, was not deliberately leaked to the press.

Lucian Chalfen, director of public information for the Office of Court Administration, said OCA's Inspector General's office found that the decision was released two days early because of a clerical error.

A paper copy of the disbarment was made available to the press at 60 Centre St. on Feb. 26 although it was not supposed to go into effect until Feb. 28. The case was not erroneously posted online.

The investigation, which concluded Thursday, was requested by Appellate Division, First Department Presiding Justice Rolando Acosta. Now that it has been determined that there was a clerical error, Acosta said he plans to go over the department's procedures to avoid a similar mistake.

Once the case was mistakenly made public, the First Department officially released the decision later that day online.

The panel of Justices Dianne Renwick, Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, Angela Mazzarelli, Jeffrey Oing and Peter Moulton found that Cohen's guilty pleas to tax evasion, campaign finance law violations and lying to Congress resulted in him being disbarred under New York State law.

“A conviction of a federal felony triggers disbarment by operation of law if the offense would constitute a felony if committed under New York law,” the panel wrote. The panel noted that lying to Congress would constitute a felony offense of offering a false instrument under state law.

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