Cahn v. Joint Bar Ass'n Grievance Committee

OPINION OF THE COURT

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, without costs, and the matter remitted to the Appellate Division for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion. The question certified should be answered in the negative.

Appellant was admitted to the New York Bar in 1949 and served for a number of years as Nassau County District Attorney. He was convicted in 1976 in Federal court of offenses that included making false statements, a felony under Federal law (US Code, tit 18, § 1001). Because appellant’s Federal felony conviction automatically disbarred him…