Legal Opinion
In re Benson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 3, 1995PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
Respondent was admitted to practice law at the First Judicial Department in 1975, and has maintained an office for such practice within this Department at all relevant times since then. In May 1994 respondent pleaded guilty, in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to three counts of mail fraud (18 USC § 1341) and one count of tax evasion (26 USC § 7201). Each of these counts is a Federal felony (18 USC § 3559), but there is no New York felony analog (Matter of Teplin, 82 AD2d 296, 297; see, Matter of Levine, 168 AD2d 116). Thus, disbarment is…
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- In re LevineAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- In re MeyerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
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