A lawyer inexperienced in real estate who was unwittingly swept up in a sale-and-leaseback fraud has been disciplined but spared a suspension.

Though ethics investigators urged the more serious sanction for Evelyn Garcia, the New Jersey Supreme Court followed the Disciplinary Review Board's recommendation for a censure, based on "a theme that permeates the record in this matter — respondent's unvarnished ineptitude and naiveté."