Panel Disbars Attorney For Federal Conviction
The New York Law Journal by Brendan Pierson - June 16, 2011
A panel of the Appellate Division, First Department on Monday disbarred attorney Robert S. Brown, who pleaded guilty in November 2009 to obstruction of justice in connection with his participation in a securities fraud. Mr. Brown admitted that he concealed information about a "pump and dump" scheme run by an unnamed California investment firm and that he helped the firm's CEO and the CEO of a Chinese company fraudulently transfer about $25 million through shell companies he helped set up (NYLJ, Nov. 6, 2009). The court determined that the federal charge against him was the equivalent of the New York felony of scheme to defraud in the first degree, mandating his disbarment. Mr. Brown's activities took place between January 2004 and January 2008, while he was a name partner with New York's Reitler Brown & Rosenblatt, now Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt, according to a criminal information filed in October 2009 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in United States v. Brown, 09-cr-00267. Mr. Brown left the firm to join New World Merchant Partners in July 2009. As part of his plea agreement, Mr. Brown agreed to forfeit $275,000 he admitted to earning through his illegal activities. He has not yet been sentenced and faces 10 to 16 months in prison and a fine of up to $30,000. According to the First Department panel's opinion, Mr. Brown, who was admitted in 1990, did not oppose his disbarment and said he hoped "one day" to be eligible to apply to the New York bar again. The panel consisted of Justices Luis A. Gonzalez, James M. Catterson, Rosalyn H. Richter, Sheila Abdus-Salaam and Nelson S. Roman. Matter of Brown, M-549, appears on page 6 of the print edition of today's Law Journal.
funny that the bar did nothing to his license until after he was convicted. If they wanted to make sure that the public was protected they should have done an ivestigation as soon as he was charged.
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