In re Theoharous

OPINION OF THE COURT

In this proceeding, the respondent was charged with one *392allegation of professional misconduct. The Special Referee sustained the charge after a hearing at which the respondent failed to appear.

Charge One alleged that the respondent conspired to obstruct justice by attempting to bribe a witness in a criminal proceeding and to induce her to fail to appear to give testimony.

The respondent’s client and an alleged accomplice were arrested in New York County on or about July 1987 on charges of raping, sodomizing, and sexually abusing a citizen of Ireland. They were subsequently…