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Matter of Chang (2011 NY Slip Op 05696)

Second Department, June 28, 2011
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Gary L. Casella, White Plains (Antonia Cipollone of counsel), for petitioner.
Wynman Chang, Mableton, Georgia, respondent pro se.
{**87 AD3d at 23} OPINION OF THE COURT
Per Curiam.
The respondent was duly served with a petition containing two charges of professional misconduct. He did not serve an answer within the time set forth by the Court's decision and order dated June 3, 2010 (2010 NY Slip Op 73343[U]).
On October 8, 2010, a conference call was conducted between the petitioner, the respondent, and the Special Referee, wherein the respondent stated that he did not dispute the charges; that he wished for his letter to the petitioner dated September 30, 2010 to serve as his answer; and that he did not wish to appear for a hearing. It was agreed that the petitioner would draft a stipulation of facts and evidence and forward it to the respondent for his review. The stipulation, with attachments, was subsequently marked into evidence. The Special Referee thereafter sustained charges one and two of the petition. The petitioner now moves to confirm the report of the Special
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Referee. The respondent has neither cross-moved nor submitted any papers in response to the petitioner's motion.
Charge one alleges that, contrary to the requirements of Judiciary Law

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