Howard A. Lettman

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

Attorney Howard Lettman was retained to act on a sale transaction and conduct of civil matters. He failed to stamp one of the sale agreements from proceeds of sale held by him, failed to advance conclusion of the sale transactions despite collecting the balance of proceeds and repeated requests, and failed to account to the complainant for monies held. The Committee found him guilty of professional misconduct in breach of Canons 1(b) and 4. The complainant suffered loss and expense. The Attorney did not appear at the hearings. He was struck from the Roll of Attorneys, ordered to pay restitution of $1,083,510.00 plus 6% interest, costs of $25,000 to the Council and $75,000 to the complainant's estate. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Aggravating factors:

• Complainant suffered loss and was put to expense
• Failed to account for monies despite repeated requests
• Did not appear at hearings or make submissions in mitigation

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=100000"]