Matter of Irizarry

The Court accepts the analysis of the Disciplinary Review Board (DRB) that premises respondent’s disbarment on three predicates: (1) his payment of fees to himself out of a trust account that he had been advised to close, (2) his misuse of mortgage closing proceeds in connection with the Maldonado/Mar*195tin closing, and (3) his willful ignorance of record-keeping requirements tantamount to a knowing misuse of-client funds. Because the record does not establish by the requisite standard of clear and convincing evidence that such conduct established a knowing misappropriation of client funds, In…