In re Portnick

Respondent, an attorney, admitted in the first judicial department on October 18, 1937, was indefinitely suspended after charges that he had been issuing bad checks in large numbers. (Matter of Portnick, 2 A D 2d 80.) The order of suspension was entered on the 3d day of July, 1956. It appears from the supplemental petition now before us that subsequent to the date of such suspension respondent continued the same practice of issuing bad checks. He does not deny the issuance of the checks but states in his answering affidavit that *17during the period of the misconduct alleged he was subjected to…