In re Segal

This is an appeal from a decision of a single justice on an information filed in the county court by the Board of Bar Overseers (board) recommending that the respondent be suspended from the practice of law for two years. On February 25, 1994, a judge in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered an order for a judgment of *360acquittal terminating the prosecution of Alan H. Segal (respondent) for making false statements to a federally insured bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1014 (1994). On September 30, 1996, bar counsel filed a formal petition before the board…