In re Clarke

This matter is before the Court on Respondent J. Caleb Clarke’s petition for voluntary surrender of his license to practice law filed pursuant to Bar Rule 4-227. In his petition, Clarke admits that while serving as the administrator of an estate, he withdrew funds from *815the estate account for his own personal use (later paying it back), appropriated for his own personal use an automobile that was property of the estate even though he told the heirs he had sold the vehicle and deposited the proceeds into the estate account, and failed to file proper income tax returns on behalf of the estate…