The District of Columbia attorney ethics board has recommended a three-month suspension for an attorney who stole several neckties from a Nordstrom department store while he worked for the U.S. Treasury Department.

The Board on Professional Responsibility found that Albert Zarate did not commit a crime of moral turpitude when he nabbed “seven or eight” neckties in December 2009, but that his August 2010 plea to misdemeanor larceny warranted a 90-day suspension.