Filed Date: 3/14/2013
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 10/19/2024
Respondent was admitted to practice by this Court in 2003. He maintained an office for the practice of law in Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to practice in 1992.
By order dated October 28, 2010, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania disbarred respondent on consent for several admitted acts of professional misconduct, including converting in excess of $160,000 from a trust for his personal use and engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation. Additionally, as the result of his actions related to the trust, respondent pleaded guilty to “theft by failure to make required disposition of funds,” a third-degree felony in Pennsylvania.
Petitioner now moves for an order imposing discipline pursuant to this Court’s rules (see 22 NYCRR 806.19). Respondent has filed responsive papers indicating that he does not contest the imposition of discipline.
Under all of the circumstances presented, we grant petitioner’s motion and further conclude that the same discipline should be imposed by this Court as was imposed in Pennsylvania, i.e., disbarment.
Peters, PJ., Mercure, Rose and Lahtinen, JJ., concur. Ordered