Court Opinion

ID: 5956776
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Date Created: 2022-01-13 06:41:23.886703+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:47:58.829451
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OPINION OF THE COURT
Per Curiam.
On November 18, 1992, the respondent was convicted in the *369County Court, Nassau County, upon his plea of guilty, to the crime of grand larceny in the fourth degree, in violation of Penal Law § 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 petitioner’s motion is granted. The respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, effective immediately.
Mangano, P. J., Thompson, Bracken, Sullivan and Balletta, JJ., concur.
Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent William Harold Kain 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 continue to 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, William Harold Kain is commanded to continue to desist and refrain (1) from practicing law in any form, either as principal or as agent, clerk, or employee of another, (2) from appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission, or other public authority, (3) from giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and (4) from holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law.