In Re Krakauer

Respondent has been found guilty of a number of charges of unethical conduct by the Disciplinary Review Board. Because the facts which formed the basis for the conclusions reached by the Board are extremely complicated, we have sought to extract and set forth below only those events which bear significantly upon the result we reach.

Two procedural points deserve brief mention. The person who filed the complaint before the District Ethics Committee was not present at the hearings before that body, having apparently left the jurisdiction for parts unknown. Respondent moved to dismiss the…