Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1987

In re Bernstein

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 7, 1987

132 A.D.2d 84; 522 N.Y.S.2d 8; 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 49547

Counsel

APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL, Frank A. Finnerty, Jr. (Ruthann E. Geary of counsel), for petitioner., Stanley B. Bernstein, respondent pro se.

Opinion of the Court

*85OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

The respondent was admitted to practice by this court on March 25, 1959.

On May 15, 1987, the respondent entered a plea of guilty in the County Court, Suffolk County, to a charge of grand larceny in the third degree (Penal Law former § 155.30), a class E felony.

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 respondent is disbarred and it is directed that his name be stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law forthwith. The tender of the respondent’s resignation is academic.

Mollen, P. J., Mangano, Thompson, Bracken and Harwood, JJ., concur.

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