Attorney Richard Peskin of east Moriches, NY; thieving loser

The state of New York presented Richard Steven Peskin with a law license in 1979 after he graduated from the New York School of Law.

The Appellate Division, First Department Grievance Committee found Dick guilty of engaging in the following misconduct.

• Engaged conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation
• Misappropriated [stole] client funds from his IOLA trust account (thief)
• Commingled client funds with personal funds
• Entered into prohibited into business transactions with a client (one for a loan and one for the rental of respondent's property) without separate written agreements to so act
• Entered into business transaction with a client with differing interests without advising of independent legal counsel
• IOLA funds to pay for the loan and using IOLA funds to pay rent and utilities, expenses unrelated to the practice of law
• Failed maintain client funds in a special account separate from business or personal accounts
• Failed to have a separate account for matters in which he acted as a trustee and in which he acted as an executor
• Failed to issue a retainer or written letter of engagement to a client
• Failed to maintain required bookkeeping records for his IOLA account

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Attorney Misfits sitting on the First Department Grievance Committee punished Dick by gifting him with a complimentary censure.

As we speak (ca. May 2021), Dick practices his so-called practice of law with the Law Office of Richard S. Peskin at 2 Arabian Court in East Moriches, New York.