In re Brooklyn Bar Ass'n

The official referee, after a hearing, has made a report containing findings and the recommendation that the respondent be disbarred.

In the main, the charges are that since June, 1914, after having been reprimanded by this court for his practice in submitting and taxing an illegal and excessive bill of costs (See Matter of Zirinsky, 163 App. Div. 960), the respondent has continuously been engaged in similar practices under a different form, by purchasing tax liens, bringing purported foreclosure actions thereon and utilizing a fictitious and excessive bill of costs for purposes of oppression…