In re D'Amico

JjPER CURIAM.

This lawyer disciplinary proceeding involves two separate charges arising out of the same event — respondent’s telephone call to a widow whose husband had recently died while working on an offshore platform. The first charge involves solicitation of a client, and the second involves false statements to the disciplinary agency.

Respondent telephoned the widow one week after her husband died. Most of the conversation was inadvertently recorded on the widow’s answering machine, but the introductory portion was missing or inaudible and several other comments cannot be understood.

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