In re Switzer

The respondent was admitted to the Bar in the Second Department on October 26, 1932. In 1956 he was convicted of unlawfully, willfully, knowingly and fraudulently concealing property from a trustee in bankruptcy and of conspiring to violate the bankruptcy laws. As the result of such conviction he was sentenced to a term of 1% years of which he served 7% months. The conviction was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (United States v. Switzer, 252 F. 2d 139, cert. den. 357 U. S. 922).

The conviction arose out of the respondent’s participation in a conspiracy to…