Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M227257

E/ct

RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

MARK C. DILLON

SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.

2016-07364 In the Matter of Jon A. Lefkowitz, admitted as Jon Ari Lefkowitz, an attorney and counselor-at-law. Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh and Thirteenth Judicial Districts, petitioner; Jon A. Lefkowitz, respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2577534)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

By affirmation dated July 18, 2016, on notice to the respondent, the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts advised the Court that, on May 11, 2016, before the Honorable Thomas J. Miller, the respondent pleaded guilty, in County Court, County of Onondaga, to the crime of criminal facilitation in the fourth degree, in violation of Penal Law § 115.00(1), a class A misdemeanor. The respondent has not yet been sentenced. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on January 5, 1994, under the name Jon Ari Lefkowitz.

Now, on the Court's own motion, and the affirmation dated July 18, 2016, including the notification letter dated June 8, 2016, from Emery Celli Brinkerhoff & Abady, LLP, counsel for the respondent annexed thereto as an exhibit, it is

ORDERED that the respondent, Jon A. Lefkowitz, admitted as Jon Ari Lefkowitz, is immediately suspended from the practice of law pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(4)(f) as a result of his conviction of a serious crime, continuing until further order of the Court; and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent, Jon A. Lefkowitz, admitted as Jon Ari Lefkowitz, shall promptly comply with this Court's rules governing the conduct of disbarred or suspended attorneys (see 22 NYCRR 1240.15); and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, during the period of suspension and until further order of this Court, the respondent, Jon A. Lefkowitz, admitted as Jon Ari Lefkowitz, is commanded to desist and refrain from (1) practicing law in any form, either as principal or agent, clerk, or employee of another, (2) appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission, or other public authority, (3) giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and (4) holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law; and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent is directed to promptly advise the Court upon being sentenced (see Matter of Delaney, 87 NY2d 508).

ENG, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA, DILLON and SGROI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court