In re Turk

Respondent, an attorney admitted to practice on September 29, 1950, in the Second Judicial Department, is charged with serious professional misconduct, including the misapplication and conversion of funds of clients and third persons deposited with him in escrow.

The charges, which were alleged and established, include the following: (Charge 1) He received as escrow agent the sum of *256$1,000 from the proposed vendee of a restaurant and bar business, but, after the same was deposited in his wife’s personal account, the moneys were expended; and, when the deal fell through, he failed to return the…