In re Taylor

Defendant was admitted to the Bar in 1936. In 1962 he was convicted in the United States District Court of unlawfully, willfully and knowingly failing to file income tax returns for the years 1955-1958, inclusive. He was sentenced to a prison term of six months on each of the four counts in the information, sentences to run concurrently. He served until paroled.

Respondent does not contest the conviction or any of the underlying facts giving rise to it. Nor does he dispute that this constitutes unprofessional conduct requiring some sanction (Matter of Landis, 21 A D 2d 488). The only question…