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827 A.2d 1027
    IN THE MATTER OF JOHN F. RICHARDSON, AN ATTORNEY AT LAW (ATTORNEY NO. 249181968)
    July 18, 2003.
   ORDER

The Disciplinary Review Board having filed with the Court its decision in DRB 03-049, concluding that as a matter of final discipline JOHN F. RICHARDSON of SOMERVILLE, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1968, should be reprimanded based on his guilty plea to a federal misdemeanor, for his willful failure to keep and maintain Internal Revenue Service form 8300, in violation of 26 U.S.C.A. 7203, conduct that constitutes a violation of RPC 8.4(b)(commission of a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer), and good cause appearing;

It is ORDERED that JOHN F. RICHARDSON is hereby reprimanded; and it is further

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