Attorneys’ Disciplinary Panel Asks Disbarment for Roy Cohn

A lawyer’s disciplinary committee has recommended disbarment for flamboyant attorney Roy Cohn, whose career has seen him at the side of people from Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to reputed mobster Carmine Galante, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

The committee, which found Cohn, 58, guilty of professional misconduct, will make its recommendation to the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court within one week, the report says.

The Appellate Division can either accept or reject the committee’s finding of misconduct and its reported recommendation of disbarment. The committee could have recommended censure, suspension or disbarment for Cohn.

Earlier last week, it was revealed that the disciplinary committee had found Cohn guilty of misconduct in three incidents after a four-year inquiry:

--For borrowing $100,000 from a client in 1966 and not repaying it until 1984, when the disciplinary hearings were under way.

--For improperly using a $219,000 escrow fund established by a court order in 1971.

--For allegedly submitting a false sworn statement about the disciplinary hearing while applying for a license to practice law in Washington.

Cohn’s attorney, Michael Mukasey, told the Daily News that he had no comment on their report, as did disciplinary committee counsel Michael Gentile.

Cohn said earlier last week that the charges will go “no place. It’s not my nature to be intimidated by this bunch of yo-yos.”