In re Van Riper

—Per Curiam.

Respondent was admitted to practice by the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, in 1975. He maintains an office for the practice of law in the City of Binghamton, Broome County.

On July 25, 2001, after pleading guilty, respondent was convicted in Binghamton City Court of a violation of Penal Law § 175.30, offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor. He had caused a SCPA 2307-a acknowledgment of disclosure affidavit, which was falsely backdated and bore a forged testator’s signature and false witness’s signature, to be filed with the Broome…