In Re Franklin

The respondent, an attorney at law of this State, was the subject of a complaint, filed with the Morris County Ethics Committee, that charged him with submitting “exaggerated, fraudulent, or non-existent” expenses on his weekly reports, between January 1, 1973, and July 21, 1973, to the Rockaway Corporation, of which he was president and chief executive officer. This conduct allegedly violated (1) DR 1-102(A) (3) which provides a lawyer shall not “[e]ngage in illegal conduct that adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law” and (2) DR 1-102'(A) (4) which prohibits a lawyer from engaging…