In re Kaufman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Respondent, an attorney, was admitted to practice in the First Judicial Department on December 3, 1956. On July 29, 1969, respondent was convicted in the United States District *135Court for the Southern District of New York, after a jury trial, of charges of securities fraud (US Code, tit 15, § 77q, subd [a]; § 77x) and conspiracy to defraud securities’ purchasers (US Code, tit 18, § 371), Federal felonies. Petitioner, the Committee on Grievances of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, seeks to have respondent’s name stricken from the roll of attorneys pursuant…