In re Hyland

RAKER, Judge.

Applicant seeks admission to the Bar of Maryland. We must decide whether the applicant presently possesses the requisite moral character to justify his admission.

The applicant filed an application for admission to the Bar on July 1, 1993, and passed the July bar examination. On his application, he disclosed that in 1986 he was convicted of fifteen counts of failure to file state sales tax returns1 arising *523from his operation of a restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also disclosed that he had failed to pay Federal payroll withholding taxes in connection with the same…