Case ID: ad_252/html/0281-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Carl J. Lewis, an Attorney, Respondent. In the Matter of Morris Aaron Lichtman (Also Known as Morris A. Lichtman), an Attorney, Respondent.
    First Department,
    October 29, 1937.
    
      Martin A. Schenck of counsel [Einar Chrystie, attorney], for the petitioner.
    
      Samuel D. Lasky of counsel [Michael I. Winter, attorney], for the respondents.
   Per Curiam.

The respondents, knowing that certain bonds had been stolen, acted as intermediaries in a sale thereof to the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, which had insured the owner and paid the loss. They devised a plan whereby the bonds were delivered in installments upon payment of an agreed price, receiving in exchange for bonds having a market value of approximately $110,000 the sum of $42,000. Of this amount the respondents concededly divided between themselves at least $10,000. They further gave a gratuity to a representative of the Fidelity Company with whom they consummated the sale by paying to him the sum of $2,000.

The respondents should be disbarred.

Present — Martin, P. J., O’Malley, Townley, Glennon and Untermyer, JJ.

In Lewis proceeding: Respondent disbarred.

In Lichtman proceeding: Respondent disbarred.