In re Batalla

*67OPINION OF THE COURT

Respondent was admitted to the practice of law at the First Judicial Department in 1986, under the name Pedro J. Batalla, Jr., and has maintained an office for such purpose within this Department at all relevant times since then.

In February 1994 respondent was convicted in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on his plea of guilty to attempting to evade taxes by filing a false income tax return. The charge related to underreporting income on his Federal tax returns for 1990 and 1991, his first full years in private practice. On May 4 he was…