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Draft transcript discussing attorney ethics and relevance of allegations under Rule 11

The passage is a rough draft of a procedural discussion about legal ethics with no specific actors, dates, transactions, or substantive allegations. It offers no concrete leads for investigation beyon Conversation centers on whether attorneys can ethically file pleadings with allegations not directly Reference to Rule 11’s prohibition on frivolous claims. No names of individuals, firms, or agencie

Date
November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #021834
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The passage is a rough draft of a procedural discussion about legal ethics with no specific actors, dates, transactions, or substantive allegations. It offers no concrete leads for investigation beyon Conversation centers on whether attorneys can ethically file pleadings with allegations not directly Reference to Rule 11’s prohibition on frivolous claims. No names of individuals, firms, or agencie

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Oo O DN OO FF WwW NY =| NO RO PO PNP NM NO | S| S| HS SF S| S| S| S| S| non BP WO NO -|- ODO OO WDN OO OT BP WO NYO — 11 for a purpose other than to advance a cause in litigation? A. Sure. Q. And would you agree with me that it would be unethical to make allegation of misconduct by a person in a pleading if that -- if those allegations were not relevant to the case? A. Sure. Q. And would you agree -- A. Actually, not pertinent to the case. Q. Not pertinent to the case? A. Yeah. And when you say not relevant, obviously, reasonable people can have disagreements about what allegations are relevant to the case or not. Q. And my question is that an attorney, it would be unethical, do you agree, for an attorney to sign a pleading where the attorney does not have a good-faith basis that the allegations of misconduct are relevant to the case, are pertinent to the case? A. Pertinent to the case, and as I understand for example under rule 11, the requirement is that the allegations being advanced must not be frivolous. Q. And that there's a good-faith basis for them? A. Well, I mean if you're talking about good faith frivolity, those are I mean, potentially different ROUGH DRAFT ONLY

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