| | SCJC No. 64: In the Matter of Honorable Joseph J. Cerbone, Justice of the Mount Kisco Town Court, Westchester County, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The Commission decided that petitioner should be removed from office because of (1) conduct as an attorney in converting funds from an escrow account and (2) conduct as a Judge which, the Commission found, was intended to retaliate against the Westchester County District Attorney for making a previous complaint to the Commission about petitioner. |
 | | Petitioner points out that we have sometimes rejected the sanction of removal where we found misconduct to be based on failings of judgment rather than on more profound flaws of character. |
 | | Petitioner responds that in Boulanger, Tamsen and Embser there was an element of "venality," which the Appellate Division, in suspending petitioner from the practice of law for one year, found to be absent here. |
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