Matter of Friedler

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

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

Date published: Apr 17, 2000

271 A.D.2d 1 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)

707 N.Y.S.2d 342

Opinion

April 17, 2000.

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 conviction of a felony. 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 December 23, 1964.

Grace D. Moran, Syosset, N.Y. (Dianne M. Saccone of counsel), for petitioner.

GUY JAMES MANGANO, P.J., CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, DAVID S. RITTER, DANIEL W. JOY, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.

OPINION ORDER

PER CURIAM.

On February 25, 1999, the respondent pleaded guilty in the County Court, Nassau County, before the Honorable Donald E. Belfi, to five counts of grand larceny in the third degree, in violation of Penal Law § 155.35, and one count of scheme to defraud in the first degree, in violation of Penal Law § 190.65(1)(b).

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 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., O'BRIEN, RITTER, JOY and SCHMIDT, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent, Sydney Friedler, 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 (see, 22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, Sydney Friedler, 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.