In re Cooper

Respondent was admitted to practice by this Court in 1994.

He was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, upon his guilty plea, of one count of federal tax evasion (26 USC § 7201), a federal felony that has been defined as a “serious crime” (Judiciary Law § 90 [4] [d]; see Matter of Uhl, 88 AD3d 1052, 1052 [2011], appeal dismissed 19 NY3d 941 [2012]). Respondent does not dispute that, after he and an accomplice defrauded an airline company of $1 million, respondent failed to report at least $448,727 of the proceeds of that scheme on his federal tax return.…