Case ID: ad2d_236/html/0035-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[664 NYS2d 100]
    In the Matter of John Kennedy O’Hara, an Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts, Petitioner.
    Second Department,
    November 10, 1997
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Robert H. Straus, Brooklyn (Diana Maxfield Kearse of counsel), for petitioner.
    
      Hoffinger, Friedland, Dobrish, Bernfeld & Stern, P. C., New York City (Jack S. Hoffinger of counsel), for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

On May 13, 1997, the respondent was convicted, after a trial in the Supreme Court, Kings County, before the Honorable Priscilla Hall, of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, a class E felony, in violation of Penal Law § 175.35; false registration, a class E felony, in violation of Election Law § 17-104; and five counts of illegal voting in violation of Election Law § 17-132 (3).

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 his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, effective immediately.

Mangano, P. J., Bracken, Rosenblatt, Miller and O’Brien, JJ., concur.

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent, John Kennedy O’Hara, 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, John Kennedy O’Hara 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.