In re Driscoll

Respondent was admitted to practice in the Second Judicial Department on June 19, 1957. On June 17, 1970, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, he entered a plea of guilty to one count of a three-count indictment charging willful failure to file Federal income tax returns for the years 1960, 1961, and 1962. He was fined $5,000 and placed on probation for three years.

Respondent does not deny the conviction or any of the underlying facts, but he contends that conviction for mere failure to file returns does not establish professional misconduct. The…