A bitterly split panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed a lawyer’s sanction Tuesday, but vacated all but $7,500 of the $60,000 penalty that was imposed against Citak & Citak and its two partners.
In a 4-1 decision that produced four opinions totaling 120 pages, the court upheld Supreme Court Justice Laura Visitación-Lewis‘ 2013 finding that two affirmations submitted by Donald Citak in an Article 81 proceeding were “replete with misrepresentations, omissions, distortions, and statements taken out of context; and that [the] attacks on this court, its appointees, and petitioner and its counsel, are wholly without merit and made in utter bad faith.”
