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.

1999-10260 In the Matter of the Application of Mason Blake Pimsler, a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2875193)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION FOR REINSTATEMENT

Motion by the respondent for reinstatement 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 April 8, 1998. By decision and order on motion of this court dated January 25, 2000, the respondent was suspended from the practice of law pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(4)(f) upon his conviction of a serious crime, the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts was authorized to institute and prosecute a disciplinary proceeding against him, and the matter was referred to the Honorable Samuel Greenstein, as Special Referee to hear and report. By opinion and order of this court dated October 1, 2001, the respondent was disbarred based on so much of the Special Referee's report as sustained four charges of professional misconduct.

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

ORDERED that the motion is denied.

We find that the respondent does not demonstrate the requisite fitness and character to practice law.

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

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court