Matter of Maggipinto

OPINION OF THE COURT

In an opinion dated December 10, 2014, this Court sustained four charges of professional misconduct and found that the respondent converted funds entrusted to him as a fiduciary, failed to account for money entrusted to him as a fiduciary, and engaged in conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty, and misrepresentation, which adversely reflected on his fitness as a lawyer (see Matter of Maggipinto, 125 AD3d 31 [2014]). Specifically, this Court found that the respondent took “advantage of his longtime relationship of trust with Kathryn Cerullo to unjustly enrich himself…