In re the Investigation & Removal from Office of Maidman

Following an inquiry by the Grand Jury of the County Court, Bockland County (January, 1972 Term), this court, by order dated December 14, 1972, issued pursuant to law (N. Y. Const., art. VI, § 22, subd. i; Judiciary Law, § 429), designated and authorized Solomon A. Klein, Esq., Chief Counsel to the Judicial Inquiry, as the petitioner pro se, to prepare a petition setting forth charges for the removal of the respondent from his judicial office of Town Justice of the Town of Clarkstown and to institute and prosecute the proceeding for such removal. In accordance, Mr. Klein instituted the…