In re Linney

OPINION OF THE COURT

Respondent was admitted to the practice of law in New York *126at this Court in 1988. One year later, he was admitted to the Bar in North Carolina, where he maintained his practice.

In 1996, respondent was disbarred in North Carolina in connection with felony indictments for embezzlement and perjury. He was charged with embezzling the proceeds of a $10,000 certificate of deposit from the bank account of an elderly incompetent woman for whom he had been appointed guardian ad litem, and later embezzling an additional $1,275 from her estate, over which he had been named…