In re Gonzalez

The Bronx County Bar Association filed a petition containing 11 charges of misconduct against the respondent. The charges related to eight separate business transactions. In each transaction, the respondent unlawfully retained sums of money rightfully belonging to others and did not return the money even after demand.

Respondent in some instances retained fees which he was paid even though he rendered no services and, in other instances, he retained money which was entrusted to him to be held in escrow. In one transaction upon which three charges are based, the respondent wrongfully kept over…