Opinion
Motion No: 2009-09884 Attorney Registration No. 2614535 M124490
08-15-2011
In the Matter of Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, an attorney and counselor- at-law. Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts, petitioner; v. Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, respondent.
, P.J.
WILLIAM F. MASTRO
REINALDO E. RIVERA
PETER B. SKELOS
MARK C. DILLON, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION
By letter dated February 22, 2011, the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts advised the Court that on April 16, 2010, the respondent pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, before the Honorable I. Leo Glasser, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, in violation of 18 USC §§1343 and 1344, a class B felony. The respondent has not yet been sentenced. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on June 22, 1994.
Upon the papers filed with the Court, it is
ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the respondent, Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, is immediately suspended from the practice of law as a result of his conviction of a serious crime, and continuing until further order of this Court, pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(4)(f); and it is further
ORDERED that the respondent, Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, shall promptly comply with this Court's rules governing the conduct of disbarred, suspended, and resigned attorneys (22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,
ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, during the period of suspension and until further order of this Court, the respondent, Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, is commanded to desist and refrain from (1) practicing law in any form, either as principal or agent, clerk, or employee of another, (2) appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board commission, or other public authority, (3) giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and (4) holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law; and it is further,
ORDERED that if the respondent, Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, has been issued a secure pass by the Office of Court Administration, it shall be returned forthwith to the issuing agency and the respondent shall certify to the same in his affidavit of compliance pursuant to 22 NYCRR 691.10(f); it is further,
ORDERED that the respondent Akintayo Abimbola Ayorinde, is directed to immediately apprise the Court upon being sentenced for the aforementioned offense (see Matter of Delany, 87 NY2d 508).
PRUDENTI, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA, SKELOS and DILLON, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Matthew G. Kiernan
Clerk of the Court