Opinion
Opinion Filed March 14, 1968
Attorney and Client.
1. Where no answer in defense is filed, allegations of disbarment complaint are to be taken as confessed.
2. Conviction, on plea of guilty, for embezzlement warrants disbarment.
Disbarment proceeding. Complaint for disbarment presented. No answer in defense. Respondent removed from office of attorney, counsellor at law and solicitor in chancery and name stricken from the rolls.
Louis P. Peck, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
Joseph S. Wool for the Respondent.
February Term, 1968
Present: Holden, C.J., Shangraw, Barney, Smith and Keyser, JJ.
A complaint for disbarment has been presented against this respondent. It alleges that, in Chittenden County Court, he has pleaded guilty to, and been convicted and sentenced on eleven counts of embezzlement of funds entrusted to his care by others. The respondent has informed this Court that no answer in defense is to be filed. Therefore, the allegations of the complaint are to be taken as confessed. They establish that the respondent has violated his office as an attorney of this Court.
Judgment that Edward B. Reiter is removed from the office of attorney and counsellor at law and solicitor in chancery, and his name is stricken from the rolls.