In re Kaufman

Respondent was admitted to the Bar in the First Department in 1940. After military service and a position with the Veterans’ Administration, in 1955 he went into the real estate business, owning and operating a great many tenement houses. He has not practiced law, in the sense of representing clients, since. He is charged by the Grievance Committee of the Association of the Bar with, beginning in 1964, entering on a course of issuing worthless checks.

The charge was sustained. During the period January, 1964 to June, 1965, 212 checks issued by respondent on his own account or on accounts of…