Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1998

In re Skripek

In re Skripek
Supreme Court of New Jersey · Decided October 23, 1998
156 N.J. 399; 719 A.2d 159; 1998 N.J. LEXIS 1396

In re Skripek

Opinion of the Court

ORDER

The Disciplinary Review Board on June 30, 1998, having filed with the Court its decision concluding that JOSEPH P. SKRI-PEK of FAIRFIELD, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1964, should be reprimanded as a matter of reciprocal discipline, respondent having been disbarred in New York after submitting his resignation from the New York bar during an ethics investigation following a judicial ruling of civil contempt for respondent’s failure to obey a court order, and the Disciplinary Review Board having concluded that the misconduct warrants *400substantially different discipline from that imposed in New York (Rule l:20-14(a)(4)(E)), and good cause appearing;

It is ORDERED that JOSEPH P. SKRIPEK is hereby reprimanded; and it is further

ORDERED that the entire record of this matter be made a permanent part of respondent’s file as an attorney at law of this State; and it is further

ORDERED that respondent reimburse the Disciplinary Oversight Committee for appropriate administrative costs incurred in the prosecution of this matter.

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