Matter of Bykofsky

Full title: In the Matter of SETH BYKOFSKY, an attorney and counselor-at-law…

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jun 21, 1999

258 A.D.2d 196 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

692 N.Y.S.2d 449

Opinion

June 21, 1999

MOTION by the Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District to strike the respondent's name from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(4), upon his felony conviction. The respondent was admitted to the practice of law at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on February 17, 1982, under the name Seth Darryl Bykofsky.

Grace D. Moran, Syosset, N.Y. (Chris G. McDonough of counsel), for petitioner.

Thomas F. Liotti, Garden City, N.Y. (Charles F. Brennan of counsel), for respondent.

GUY JAMES MANGANO, P.J., LAWRENCE J. BRACKEN, SONDRA MILLER, CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, JJ.

OPINION ORDER

PER CURIAM.

On February 22, 1999, the respondent pleaded guilty in the County Court, Nassau County, to the crime of grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony. He was sentenced on the same day to 5 years probation and directed to pay restitution in the amount of $30,985.

Pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(4), the respondent ceased to be an attorney and counselor-at-law upon his conviction of a felony.

Accordingly, the petitioner's motion is granted. The respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, effective immediately.

MANGANO, P.J., BRACKEN, S. MILLER, O'BRIEN and ALTMAN, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent, Seth Bykofsky, is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law; and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent shall 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, effective immediately, Seth Bykofsky, is commanded to desist and refrain from (1) practicing law in any form, either as principal or as 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.