Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M86683

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

ROBERT A. SPOLZINO

ANITA R. FLORIO, JJ.

1999-11876 In the Matter of Aida Kuperman-Umansky, admitted as Aida Kuperman, a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2667996)

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 Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on March 15, 1995, under the name Aida Kuperman. By decision and order on motion of this court dated March 1, 2000, the respondent was suspended from the practice of law pursuant to 22 NYCRR 691.4(l)(1)(ii) and (iii), and the matter was referred to the Honorable Robert T. Groh, as Special Referee, to hear and report. By decision and order on motion of this court dated June 13, 2000, the petitioner's motion to find the respondent in default and to appoint a conservator was denied. By opinion and order of this court dated July 16, 2001, the respondent was disbarred based on the Special Referee's report which sustained two charges of professional misconduct.

Upon the papers submitted in support of the motion and the papers submitted 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 be an attorney.

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

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court