A criminal conviction has resulted in a four year suspension without credit for time served by the New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department

As revealed in Indictment CR 1600204, in or about March and April 2016, the respondent and the codefendant, Faith Esimai, attempted to influence the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to remove a lien on Esimai’s real property by misrepresenting that the property would be sold, and that Esimai would not receive any proceeds from the sale. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had filed liens against four properties owned byEsimai to prevent her from selling them without first satisfying a judgment and forfeiture order. More specifically, on April 23, 2010, Esimai, the respondent’s aunt, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, in violation of 18 USC § 1349. She was sentenced to 70 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $4,952,831.73 in restitution (hereinafter the Judgment) and ordered to forfeit $13,517,486 in criminal proceeds (hereinafter Forfeiture Order). In 2015, Esimai completed her sentence and was released.