Florida Bar v. Karahalis

Respondent Alan John Karahalis petitions this Court to review a referee’s report recommending that he be disbarred. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.

FACTS

On March 4, 1999, in In re Karahalis, 429 Mass. 121, 706 N.E.2d 655 (1999), the *28Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts vacated an order imposing a two-year suspension on Kara-halis and entered a judgment suspending Karahalis from the practice of law for four years, retroactive to October 24, 1997. Karahalis’s disciplinary proceeding in Massachusetts arose as a result of Karahalis’s unlawful payment of…