In re Hall

OPINION OF THE COURT

Respondent, a member of the Bar of this State, was admitted to practice in March, 1966 in the First Department. In 1980 he was charged, in a six-count indictment filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, with securities fraud and breach of a fiduciary duty to corporate clients. The indictment arose out of the utilization of nonpublic material and confidential information for the purpose of trading in the stock of the clients, in violation of subdivision (b) of section 78j and section 78ff of title 15 of the United States Code, 17 CFR…