A Queens lawyer charged with bribing a witness in a double homicide case has been suspended from practice for six months for taking part in a three-way phone call with a defendant he represents in an unrelated domestic violence case and the alleged victim.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Tiscione of the Eastern District of New York issued the suspension as a condition of John Scarpa Jr.’s bail following a hearing on Monday, saying that his simultaneous contact with a domestic-violence defendant and an alleged victim in the case amounted to “borderline witness tampering.” He declined to take federal prosecutors’ recommendation that Scarpa be jailed.