Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M104810

E/ct

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

PETER B. SKELOS

JOSEPH COVELLO, JJ.

1999-10864 In the Matter of Andrew G. Maloney, admitted as Andrew Gerald Eardley Maloney, a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1123223)

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 February 8, 1989, under the name Andrew Gerald Eardley Maloney. By decision and order on motion of this court dated December 27, 1999, the matter was referred to the Honorable Jerome M. Becker, as Special Referee to hear and report. By opinion and order of this court dated April 16, 2001, the respondent was disbarred based on the Special Referee's report which sustained a multitude of charges of professional misconduct. By decision and order on motion of this court dated August 7, 2001, the respondent's motion for leave to reargue the opinion and order dated April 16, 2001, was denied. On October 16, 2002, the respondent's petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied.

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 fitness to be an attorney.

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

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court