Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

ROBERT A. SPOLZINO

PETER B. SKELOS, JJ.

1990-07487 In the Matter of Edward Horn, a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1456714)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION FOR REINSTATEMENT

Motion by the respondent for reinstatement to the Bar as an attorney and counselor-at-law. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on October 13, 1976. By decision and order of this court dated January 18, 1991, he was immediately suspended from the practice of law pursuant to 22 NYCRR 691.4(1) based upon his substantial admissions under oath that he committed acts of professional misconduct and upon other uncontroverted evidence of professional misconduct. By opinion and order of this court dated July 27, 1992, the respondent was disbarred based upon 17 charges of professional misconduct. By decision and order on motion of this court dated January 30, 2007, the respondent's first application for reinstatement was denied.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is held in abeyance and the matter is referred to the Committee on Character and Fitness to investigate and report on the respondent's current fitness to practice law, including but not limited to the respondent's 1998 federal conviction for mail fraud, his 1995 discharge from bankruptcy, and missing tax returns for the years 1991 through 1997.

PRUDENTI, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA, SPOLZINO and SKELOS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court