In re Gerzof

The respondent was admitted to the Bar on May 6,1936 at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department. The petition charges the respondent with professional misconduct upon two specifications.

Specification (1) is that on May 19, 1970 and May 24, 1970 the respondent solicited and advised two other attorneys to reduce their legal fee on a zoning application so as to make available a sum of money to be used improperly to assure the granting of the applications. Specification (2) is that the respondent, as a witness under oath at the Fboessel inquiry,…