An attorney who pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI during a New Jersey bribery investigation has been suspended from practicing law in New York for two years. Jose A. Izquierdo, of West New York, N.J., a lawyer who also owned an architectural firm, was sentenced to a three-year probation and fined $25,000 in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. The Appellate Division, Third Department, said that Mr. Izquierdo’s conduct, while “quite serious,” was “mitigated by his otherwise laudable personal background and prior excellent professional reputation both as an architect and lawyer.”
Mr. Izquierdo “voluntarily and expeditiously” told the U.S. attorney’s office that he made the false statements, the upstate appellate panel said. And he provided “extensive and effective cooperation” with investigations into local corruption, the decision said. Eric Breslin, a partner in Duane Morris in Newark, N.J., who represented Mr. Izquierdo, said Mr. Izquierdo has been cooperating in “several inquiries” into political corruption in Hudson County, N.J., though he declined to say in which cases.
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