In re Lesser

*399OPINION OF THE COURT

Respondent, William M. Lesser, was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York by the First Judicial Department, as William Melville Lesser, on March 23,1959.

On April 29,1994, respondent pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County, to one count of conspiracy in the sixth degree, a misdemeanor. On July 11, 1994, respondent was sentenced to a conditional discharge and ordered to pay $25,000 to the New York State Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection.

On October 19, 1994, the Departmental Disciplinary Committee filed a "serious crime”…