In re Siegel

OPINION OF THE COURT

Petitioner Departmental Disciplinary Committee moves for an order confirming the Hearing Panel’s report and supplemental report recommending that the final discipline to be imposed upon respondent is a suspension, effective September 18, 1984, to be terminated forthwith and that respondent be reinstated to the practice of law.

Respondent was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law in the State of New York by this court in December of 1954. On March 13, 1984, he was convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of the…