In re Morahan

The respondent was admitted to practice in the First Judicial Department on June 25, 1956. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in substance, charged that respondent, during the years 1972 and 1973, in three separate instances, accepted retainers for several thousand dollars and agreed to represent three separate clients before the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in an effort to obtain permanent resident alien status. It was further charged that not only did respondent take no action whatever on behalf of any of said clients but, in each case, he falsely…