Monthly report

Attorney discipline, June 2019

17 New York attorney discipline decisions in June 2019: 6 disbarred or resigned under investigation, 9 suspended, 0 censured, 1 reinstated. With links to each decision.

Disbarred or resigned under investigation (6)

• Albert Hessberg, Iii — Matter of Hessberg, 2019 NY Slip Op 05048 · Third Department · Disbarred
• David Leonard Rabin — Matter of Rabin, 2019 NY Slip Op 04811 · Third Department · Disbarred
• Robert Frederick Farrace — Matter of Farrace, 2019 NY Slip Op 04809 · Third Department · Disbarred
• Meighan Marie McSherry — Matter of McSherry, 2019 NY Slip Op 04780 · First Department · Disbarred
• Michael Joseph Vatter — Matter of Vatter, 2019 NY Slip Op 04704 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Jack Sudla Vitayanon — Matter of Vitayanon, 2019 NY Slip Op 04529 · Third Department · Disbarred

Suspended (7)

• Matter of Sanchez — Matter of Sanchez, 2019 NY Slip Op 05312 · Fourth Department · Suspended
• Ravinder Singh Bhalla — Matter of Bhalla, 2019 NY Slip Op 04815 · Third Department · Suspended for three months
• James Peter Byrne — Matter of Byrne, 2019 NY Slip Op 04778 · First Department · Suspended for three months
• David G. Scudieri — Matter of Scudieri, 2019 NY Slip Op 04668 · First Department · Suspended for 18 months
• Peter Vincent Spagnuolo — Matter of Spagnuolo, 2019 NY Slip Op 04387 · Second Department · Suspended for two years
• Matter of Costello — Matter of Costello, 2019 NY Slip Op 04380 · Second Department · Suspended for six months
• Matter of Costello — Matter of Costello, 2019 NY Slip Op 04379 · Second Department · Suspended for one year

Interim suspension (2)

• James Albert Cracolici — Matter of Cracolici, 2019 NY Slip Op 04814 · Third Department · Interim suspension
• Donald Robert Dunn, Jr. — Matter of Dunn, 2019 NY Slip Op 04667 · First Department · Interim suspension

Reinstated (1)

• Leonard W. Krouner — Matter of Krouner, 2019 NY Slip Op 04813 · Third Department · Reinstated

Other decisions (1)

• Marshall Ashby Courtney — Matter of Courtney, 2019 NY Slip Op 04810 · Third Department · Reinstatement denied

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Source: NY Official Reports (Law Reporting Bureau); current as of October 2026.