Monthly report

Attorney discipline, June 2022

22 New York attorney discipline decisions in June 2022: 4 disbarred or resigned under investigation, 13 suspended, 1 censured, 3 reinstated. With links to each decision.

Disbarred or resigned under investigation (4)

• Anthony Joseph Moses — Matter of Moses, 2022 NY Slip Op 04086 · Third Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Zolfaghari — Matter of Zolfaghari, 2022 NY Slip Op 04028 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Jaeson L. Birnbaum — Matter of Birnbaum, 2022 NY Slip Op 03992 · First Department · Disbarred
• Sidney Baumgarten — Matter of Baumgarten, 2022 NY Slip Op 03686 · First Department · Resigned while under investigation (treated as disbarment)

Suspended (11)

• Michael Faillace — Matter of Faillace, 2022 NY Slip Op 04223 · First Department · Suspended
• Neal Meredith Pomper — Matter of Pomper, 2022 NY Slip Op 04173 · Second Department · Suspended for two years
• Mary Sheila Malerba — Matter of Malerba, 2022 NY Slip Op 04172 · Second Department · Suspended for six months
• Pamela Susan Roth — Matter of Roth, 2022 NY Slip Op 04124 · First Department · Suspended
• Rosemarie Andrea Anderson — Matter of Anderson, 2022 NY Slip Op 04080 · Third Department · Suspended for one year
• Andrew Harris Kulak — Matter of Kulak, 2022 NY Slip Op 04025 · Second Department · Suspended for two years
• Edwyn David MacElus — Matter of Macelus, 2022 NY Slip Op 03895 · Second Department · Suspended
• Yiheng Lou — Matter of Yiheng Lou, 2022 NY Slip Op 03791 · Third Department · Suspended for eight months
• Jerry Ray Hamling — Matter of Hamling, 2022 NY Slip Op 03790 · Third Department · Suspended for one year
• Matter of Benedict — Matter of Benedict, 2022 NY Slip Op 03668 · Fourth Department · Suspended for two years
• Reginald Wayne Hamilton — Matter of Hamilton, 2022 NY Slip Op 03515 · Second Department · Suspended for two years

Interim suspension (2)

• Kimberly Anne Harp — Matter of Harp, 2022 NY Slip Op 04084 · Third Department · Interim suspension
• Robert Morris Cohen — Matter of Cohen, 2022 NY Slip Op 03960 · Third Department · Interim suspension

Public censure (1)

• Todd Charles Bank — Matter of Bank, 2022 NY Slip Op 03511 · Second Department · Public censure

Reinstated (3)

• Donald Patrick Vernon — Matter of Vernon, 2022 NY Slip Op 03899 · Second Department · Reinstated
• James Michael Bruhn, Jr. — Matter of Bruhn, 2022 NY Slip Op 03792 · Third Department · Reinstated
• David G. Graziani — Matter of Graziani, 2022 NY Slip Op 03726 · Second Department · Reinstated

Other decisions (1)

• David John Watson — Matter of Watson, 2022 NY Slip Op 03567 · Third Department · Reinstatement denied

All months

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